Approximately 38% of iPad owners say that after they have purchased their cherished slates, they no longer have interest in acquiring a gaming handheld like the DS and the PSP –Nintendo has expressed understandable concern about the iPod Touch, iPhone, and the iPad’s threat to its DS. 49% of iPad buyers indicate that their likelihood of buying an e-reader is now nil. More »

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Is this a picture of Nintendo’s 3DS in test kit form? Initially, the board was thought to be a DS (that is why I ignored it), but now, rumors are rampant that it is actually a 3DS, which Nintendo has sent to the FCC for approval of the Wi-Fi module. More »

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Yesterday, the DSi XL was launched to the delight of Pokemon loving lads all across the land. iFixit was glad to tear apart Nintendo’s new handheld and provide photographic evidence of its exploits. More »

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Nintendo will be replacing the amazingly popular DS with a new system temporarily called the 3DS, which will allow gamers to enjoy “3D effects without the need for any special glasses.” The 3DS is scheduled for release on or before March 2011 and will be demoed at E3 in June. More »

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Legendary Shigeru Miyamoto says that he is devoting lots of energy into educational efforts for the Nintendo DS. Some Japanese students already use the handheld gaming system for learning (pictured above) in the classroom. When the new school year begins, Nintendo will introduce elementary and junior high schools to the DS as an educational tool, although exactly how this process will be implemented has not been documented to the public. More »

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NPD reports that for the first time in several years, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has earned first place in the monthly gaming console sales rankings. The 360 moved 422,000 units. Meanwhile, over in Japan, Sony’s PSP go continues to be a disaster, with 3-month sales totals of only 17,618 handhelds. More »

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Nintendo has declared that its new DSi XL, which will debut on March 28th for $190, is also an e-reader. Apple’s iPad and iPod Touch/iPhone are breaking into the Japanese gaming corporation’s territory; the DSi XL is return fire that will a title called “100 Classic Books,” which includes works from Shakespeare and Twain. More »

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From Wirebot:

By now we’ve all heard what the analysts and game developers think about the iPad, but what about the gamers? How do are we feel about the new tablet? We are thrilled, or at least should be. Since forever clever gamers have been taking apart their coveted consoles and resembling them into more compact shells so they can take their gaming on the road without suffering the drawbacks and limitations that come along with a portable gaming system. Most of the time these contraptions become pieces of fanboy high art, being much too bulky for logical usage. With the iPad, Apple has simplified our vision and gathered support from many developers. More »

While some of these gadgets certainly were not released in 2009, they still, without a doubt, ruled 2009. Here are my picks, in no particular order, for the top ten gadgets of 2009: More »

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I was somewhat surprised with the PSP Go’s launch. It was not the device that was unexpected but rather its price and form factor. Usually, when a portable gaming machine (or a console) has been out for years, a company improves it while lowering prices. Instead, Sony went an unconventional route and radically altered the PSP’s functionality by releasing the PSP Go, which removed the ability to play hundreds of existing UMD-only games that millions of PSP owners already have in their collection. In addition to this bizarre move, Sony also made the PSP Go a “premium” PSP and decided to sell it for substantially more than the standard unit. More »

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For the holidays, Nintendo is going to release its next wave of limited edition colorful DSi systems. More »

For once the North American folks don’t get shafted again by Nintendo. Nintendo is set to make the Black Wiimote available this holiday season with a black Wii Jacket and a standalone black Nunchuck. I wish they were also rolling out a Black Wii but can’t hope for too much these days.

Nintendo is also rolling out two new colors for the Nintendo DSi, pink and white. Looks like Nintendo is finally giving us North American folks a much needed color change, especially for the, now very dull looking white Wiimotes. More »

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Poor Japan. While some of you are jumping for joy for the new DSi colors, they’re actually quite fugly.

Straying away from the neons, Nintendo has made a “pink, green and blue” DSi that are in very bland shades. They’ll be available in only Japan in March whereas the rest of the world still waits for the DSi to debut in April. Aw shucks! More »

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Nintendo is keen on showing that its imminent DSi isn’t just a simple rehash with a few cameras installed, with much of the improvement under the hood. According to tests by N+, the Opera-based browser is considerably faster than its previous NDS iteration, and also renders websites differently More »

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Nintendo’s new DS revision, curiously called the DSi (speculation has the marketing department shooting down the original iDS name for fear of repercussion from a certain media player company), has just been given an official release date: April 5. More »

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