DSi Only Games Available This Fall

The Nintendo DSi was released on April 5th of this year, but up to this point, with the exception of DSiWare games there have been no retail games that were exclusive to the platform. According to DSi Project Lead Masato Kuwahara that will change this fall. DSi only games will be shipping to retailers later this year and they will have features that make them stand out from standard DS games. They will appear more like Wii games on the shelves as they will have all white cases for the games and the carts themselves will be white as well. They will also have warnings on the packaging letting consumers know that the game will only work on the DSi.

Another interesting thing to note about this is that Nintendo has decided, much like with Motion Plus, to let third party developers and publishers take the lead being the first to market with games that will take advantage of the DSi. That was a system that appeared to work well for Motion Plus. It will be interesting to see how it works with DSi. It will also be interesting to see just how quickly the all white packaging of DSi only games overtakes the amount of black cases that will work on both systems.

Nintendo has said that the DSi will live alongside the DS, but it was very quick to begin pulling things from the Game Boy Advance when DS took off as well as switching to DS Lite systems after they were released.

Source: Kotaku