Nintendo DSi XL Review

By Chris Hudak

Fatty, Fatty, 2.52 x 3.36



As with a number of past Nintendo roll-outs (the easy majority of which turned out to be solid, popular products), some might see the new DSi XL as something of a head-scratcher: As its name makes plain, the DSi XL is an extra-large version of last year’s DSi (in Japan, this new jumbo-DSi is called the ‘LL,’ referring…

  • Great-looking, 93% larger dual screens
  • SD support, DSi Store and halfway-decent browser
  • Comes with 3 (well, 2 ½) pre-installed titles...
  • ...Brain Age titles
  • Twin cameras . . .
  • . . . albeit still modest, low-res ones
  • Larger (but non-stowable) stylus
  • Just bulkier/heavier enough to matter
  • same dumb audio/video peccadilloes as DSi
  • GBA slot still MIA

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Chris Hudak
Chris Hudak

Chris Hudak is a writer, former San Francisco Zoo penguin recorder, frequent-flyer junkie, self-proclaimed lucid dream expert, poolshark-in-minnow’s-clothing, “student” of all things Japanese, borderline alcoholic (see “writer”), video-gamer-with-a-life, and moonlighting, kinda-sorta actor in his copious spare time.  He writes weird fiction, and contributes articles to Playboy, Wired, The Toronto Star, and whoever else has money.  Chris is the protagonist of the Harlan Ellison short story “Keyboard”—no, really—and someday wants a house in Walt Disney World.

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