Oct 02
Nintendo have introduced a new model of its best-selling DS handheld game player with camera and music- playing functions to widen its lead over Sony Corp.’s PlayStation Portable machines.
The Nintendo DSi will go on sale in Japan Nov. 1, priced at 18,900 yen €130), President Satoru Iwata said at a briefing in Tokyo today. Overseas sales begin next year, he said.
The third version of the DS is aimed at protecting Kyoto, Japan-based Nintendo’s dominance in portable gaming as Sony adds new features to the PSP and Apple Inc. enters the market with iPods and iPhones that can play motion-sensing games. In August, Nintendo forecast it will sell 30.5 million handheld machines this fiscal year, twice as many as Sony’s projected PSP sales.
