Nintendo DSi Now $99.99, DSi XL $129.99

The last generation's portables are now cheaper than ever.

Nintendo announced via a press release this morning that the Nintendo DSi and Nintendo DSi XL will be dropped in price. Effective May 20, 2012, the Nintendo DSi will retail for $99.99 and the Nintendo DSi XL for $129.99.

Nintendo's current flagship portable is the 3DS, which while similar in form to the DS family of handhelds, also features stereoscopic 3D visuals as well as improved graphics and greater online connectivity. However, those not interested in the new portable (which can also play DS games) can now grab the best selling portable at a low price.

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Travis Hawks Senior Editor

05/10/2012 at 11:20 AM

Wal-Mart had the XL at this price two weeks ago and I jumped on it. Truly the best way to play DS games. I assumed my 3DS would be the way to go, but it's back compat is a huge letdown.

Angelo Grant Staff Writer

05/10/2012 at 11:52 AM

Really? I haven't had any trouble. What sort of issues are you seeing?

05/10/2012 at 06:56 PM

It applies a filter that makes it a blurry mess... I am being a bit picky, but I really wish you could turn that off. The tiny scale option is not really a good alternative, either.

Kathrine Theidy Staff Alumnus

05/12/2012 at 08:41 PM

It isn't a filter, it's due to image scaling. The 3DS has a higher resolution than the DS, so DS games are stretched out to fit the 3DS screens. There's no way to get around that because the two resolutions don't match up; think of it as watching SD content on an HDTV. The "tiny scale" option is the DS's original resolution.

05/13/2012 at 10:10 PM

Don't try to use all of this "logic" and "math." This is the internet and I am opinionated about something unimportant!

Seriously, though, I know it's their way to make the resolutions work out... it just seems like the upscaling could be done with a different technique, but I don't know anything about how that's done. I'll just sit here content with my affordably priced DSi XL and stop complaining.

Julian Titus Senior Editor

05/13/2012 at 10:13 PM

Doing my research for the Final Fantasy Retrospective, I keep coming across screen grabs of the NES and SNES games in super high resolution. I'm assuming that these are taken from someone playing on a ROM with the settings tweaked. My question is-why can't we get this on our systems? I certainly wouldn't mind playing 8 and 16 bit games in high resolution at the original aspect ratio.

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