Nintendo DSI. ( EFE)
The Japanese giant Nintendo today announced in Tokyo a new handheld video-games, "Nintendo DSi", equipped with a camera and an integrated audio player, which goes on sale soon in Japan .
According to the manufacturer, the console will cost 18,900 yen (179 dollars) and will start selling in Japan on 1 November, to market abroad in 2009.
Despite being a bit thinner than traditional DS, Nintendo has increased the display of the new console up to 3.25 inches, rather than the 3 inches of the previous models and will also touch technology.
The video-console, available in white and black, with a camera three-megapixel and incorporates a slot for SD memory cards.
addition to the new improved device which will compete in the market with the Play Station Portable 3000 (PSP-3000) that Sony will launch this month in Japan for just under $ 200, Nintendo announced the launch of a store internet.
Here you can purchase content for the DS Wi-Fi using Nintendo points as payment.
Nintendo, which has sold 77 million units of its handheld console worldwide since its release, you get rather than have one DS per household, all family members have their own console.
The business of video games in Japan shrank between April and September this year 21.3 per cent over the same period in 2007, the first year decline that has been in four years.
The continuing competition between Japanese tech giants are forced to take to market regular new devices, increasingly comprehensive and improved.
Between April and September 2008, the first half of fiscal year, it sold 1.58 million PSP units, followed by the Nintendo DS sold 1.31 million consoles.
-EFE
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