I actually said the same thing elsewhere, about people ending up very confused about the difference between DS Lite and DSi software. It’s a bit of a fool’s game to name two pieces of hardware with different capabilities similarly.

As for the region-locking… I can see why they did that, considering that I import from Play Asia all the time. Play Asia is often almost as cheap as Play (UK), and I can get stuff that won’t be out in Europe for yonks there. Ex: Time Hollow.

I don’t buy much from the same region as my DS, and Ninty UK probably suffers because of people like me. Oh well.

Still, at least the region-lock will probably only go so far as the downloadable software.

And if not… well, some clever bugger will fiddle with the firmware and make everything better again.

That’s assuming I even ever buy one of those DSi things, which I probably won’t.

i hate when they say that.

no i can’t i’m in a desert in australia and i have no internet.

tools

If DSi software starts appearing in shops with the same packaging as DS and on the same cartridge, your going to get a lot of confused people picking up the wrong thing if they are not careful.

But if physical DSi games start appearing in shops, then issues could arise without a very vaild reason to region lock games on a physical media.

I hope that once all regions have the console, that titles will get worldwide releases.

I believe it is the first time they’ve done this for a handheld. No doubt to stem the grey exporting because of the huge gap between the Japanese and western release dates.