DSi had oorspronkelijk twee slots

Cengizhan (CengizMan)
Gisteren heeft FOK!games jullie de verschillende functies van de DSi laten zien. Vandaag heeft Nintendo in "Iwata asks" bekendgemaakt dat de DSi eigenlijk nog een functie meer had, namelijk twee DS-slots. Het GBA-slot was al eerder geschrapt, maar binnen het bedrijf was er blijkbaar behoefte aan twee slots.

Waarom heeft Nintendo deze functie geschrapt? Het antwoord is simpel, Nintendo wilde niet dat het apparaat zo dik zou aanvoelen.


Iwata:
Umm, I think it might be easier to understand if I specified what that certain specification was. Originally, the Nintendo DSi was designed so that two DS games could be inserted.

Kuwahara:
Right. There were two slots.

Iwata:
There were a lot of requests among gamers, of course, and from in house as well, for two slots. We also thought that would be good, and, even though we were aware of the drawback of increased size, we decided to proceed with two slots. But when you and your team made an actual model and I held it in my hands, all I could think was, It's so big!

Kuwahara:
Compared to the final version, it was much bigger. It was about three millimeters thicker too.

Iwata:
When you try to add two slots, it can't be helped. So you gave up on that, and decided to make it smaller.

Lees hier het hele interview om meer te weten te komen over de eigenschappen van de DSi.