Archangel3371 said:

phantom_leo said:

aspro said:

YES!  Someone other than me!  Is it amazing?

*...and keep in mind that's a DSiXL and a DSi! Imagine the difference between that and the Lite!*

So far, I am impressed. My love for the DSi waned pretty quickly after having it for a little while. The top screen was very wobbly. The matte finish annoyed me. The battery power wasn't too good. It felt kinda... flimsy...

The DSiXL is MASSIVE! The screens are 93% bigger than the original Lite's. I LOVE the Pen Stylus. It is sooo much more comfortable than any stylus before it. The glossy top screen feels and looks nice. The matte, lower screen grips better and obviously doesn't get all smudged up from fingerprints.

You can literally sit the XL on a flat surface and play with it like a laptop if you wish. It's a little awkward pressing the buttons with it sitting like that, but any stylus only game (Infinite Space) is a HECK of lot easier to play like this!

The d-pad and buttons have the same tactile-feedback kinda 'click' that the DSi had. The shoulder buttons are a step above the rounded Lite's too and are less apt to break.

The screen is more observable of course, but you can also play it on a brighter level if you want, due to the more powerful battery life. The speakers are louder too, and (this may be just an audio illusion) it seems due to the wider body of the XL the sound is even more spacial and gives an illusion of 3D sound while playing.

The concern of the graphics being more jaggy and out of proportion due to the magnification is totally moot as any negative effects of the screen being bigger are outweighed by just being able to SEE more details more clearly, read text more easily and just enjoy a bigger, brighter screen.

We'll see if the wobbliness plagues this system too eventually, but other than that future concern, I have no regrets in getting this system at all at the moment. The only thing I feel though is: THIS should have been the DSi from the start. If Nintendo wanted to market a more functional, more 'adult' system after the Lite, they should've just jumped straight to this.

Awesome impressions. I want one.

It seems Nintendo made a very, very, very smart move with the DSiXL. They corrected what I considered to be a design flaw of the DSi.

If any of you remember, I was pretty miserable when I gave up my Lite for a DSi for one very specific reason. I like to leave my system plugged in, on my bedside table so I can lay in bed at night and game a little bit before I go to sleep. The Lite works off of the adapter power when plugged in. I could feasibly play it any time I wanted, then unplug it and it would be fully charged and ready to go. The DSi did away with that. If you played while it was plugged in, it would still work off the battery power and be depleted if you played in this way. That may not seem like a big deal to some, but I tend to leave home for a few days at a time, often having to travel for several hours by plane, train and automobile. I need my portable to always be ready and waiting. When I discovered this flaw in the DSi, it stopped me from having my relaxing gaming moments at night. It forced me to give up my DSi for a Lite again after a while.

I knew I had to have an XL when I saw the beautiful screens, but one of my concerns was if it had the same kind of charging 'issues' the DSi had...

IT DOES NOT! I think Nintendo realized A LOT of people play their portables at home. DSiXL makes an excellent little table-top system as well as being perfectly portable. You CAN plug it in and the battery WILL NOT deplete as you play! That makes me VERY happy!

As a side note, it sits besides my Mac Book on my table. It looks like my Mac had a little Bronze offspring! Awww...! It's so cute! Yes it is! Oh yes it is!

Dvader said:

Oh and if Claire and Alice have lesbian sex in the rain all is forgiven.

gamingeek said:

Cool!...But, what is it from?

Ninja theory is coming out with some interesting insights lately. 

Did some updates. 

Family was here. So we played some Brawl multiplayer and co-op events. Finished NSMBWii with 2 players from start to finish in one single setting. We did use warp cannons to go from world 1 to 5 and another one to go from world 5 to 8. Played some Boom Blox Bash party in co-op and finally my cousin played some Galaxy. 

After they left, I finished Red Steel 2, awesome game, will probably sell like shit though. Marketing failure in a complete sense. 

Iga_Bobovic said:

Family was here. So we played some Brawl multiplayer and co-op events. Finished NSMBWii with 2 players from start to finish in one single setting. We did use warp cannons to go from world 1 to 5 and another one to go from world 5 to 8. Played some Boom Blox Bash party in co-op and finally my cousin played some Galaxy.

After they left I finished Red Steel 2, awesome game, will probably sell like shit though. Marketing failure in a complete sense.

Did you see the commercial that they're running for it (at least in America)?  It's absolutely horrible. They show actual gameplay for about 2 seconds. It's honestly one of the worst commercials I've ever seen. Really makes you ask the question "which is worse... no marketing or marketing."

Just in case you missed it, here it is again:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ok2VEGqP20