Nintendo DSi XL coming March 28; plus 100 Classic Book Collection

We’ve heard about the specs and now we’ve got the launch info.  Nintendo DSi XL, the next iteration of the Nintendo DS, will be made available for purchase on March 28 for $189.99.  That’s $20 more than the current Nintendo DSi that’s been out for some time now.  Initially the XL will sell in two color varients, burgundy and bronze.  The handheld will come preloaded with two DSiWare Brain Age games, Photo Clock, the DSi Browser, and Flipnote Studio.  If you already own a Nintendo DSi I cannot come up with a valid reason for wanting to make the jump to this new device.  Remember, the added value comes in an increase in screen real estate screen (from 3.5 inches to 4.2 inches), it comes with a larger stylus, and the screen is a bit brighter.  Besides that, it is nearly identical (internals and ports/switches-wise) to the DSi.  If you’ve got the original DS or the DS Lite and you’ve been wanting to get in on the dual camera gameplay, maybe it’s something to think about.  Look after the break to see the XL in action, Nintendo style.

In related DS news, Nintendo has teamed up with book publisher Harper Collins to create 100 Classic Book Collection, an eReader app of sorts that will be made available in the US on June 14.  For $19.99 Americans will have the opportunity to purchase the same 100 classic books Europeans have had access to on their DS’ for over a year now.  Joystiq makes a good point: “Why did it take Nintendo a year and a half to localize a bunch of books that were already in English?”  Anyway, the collection includes works from Shakespeare, Dickens, Twain, and a whole lot more.  Look after the break for the full breakdown.  Though Nintendo promises specialized scrolling and zooming options, I just can’t see the Nintendo DS (even with a larger 4.2 inch screen) becoming a viable eReader.  Unless of course getting maigrains is a hobby for you.

[Via Joystiq, here, here & here; Engadget]

  • Louisa May Alcott – Little Women
  • Jane Austen – Emma
  • Jane Austen -Mansfield Park
  • Jane Austen – Persuasion
  • Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
  • Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility
  • Harriet Belcher – Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  • R.D. Blackmore – Lorna Doone
  • Anne Bronte – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
  • Charlotte Bronte – The Professor
  • Charlotte Bronte – Shirley
  • Charlotte Bronte – Villette
  • Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
  • John Bunyan – The Pilgrim’s Progress
  • Frances Burnett – Little Lord Fauntleroy
  • Frances Burnett – The Secret Garden
  • Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  • Lewis Carroll – Through the Looking-Glass
  • Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone
  • Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White
  • Carlo Collodi – Adventures of Pinocchio
  • Arthur Conan Doyle – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • Arthur Conan Doyle – The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
  • Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim
  • Susan Coolidge – What Katy Did
  • James Fenimore Cooper – Last of the Mohicans
  • Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe
  • Charles Dickens – Barnaby Rudge
  • Charles Dickens – Bleak House
  • Charles Dickens – A Christmas Carol
  • Charles Dickens – David Copperfield
  • Charles Dickens – Dombey and Son
  • Charles Dickens – Great Expectations
  • Charles Dickens – Hard Times
  • Charles Dickens – Martin Chuzzlewit
  • Charles Dickens – Nicholas Nickleby
  • Charles Dickens – The Old Curiosity Shop
  • Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist
  • Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers
  • Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities
  • Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Alexandre Dumas – The Three Musketeers
  • George Eliot – Adam Bede
  • George Eliot – Middlemarch
  • George Eliot – The Mill on the Floss
  • Henry Rider Haggard – King Solomon’s Mines
  • Thomas Hardy – Far From The Madding Crowd
  • Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • Thomas Hardy – Tess of The D’Urbervilles
  • Thomas Hardy – Under the Greenwood Tree
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter
  • Victor Hugo – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • Victor Hugo – Les Miserables
  • Washington Irving – The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
  • Charles Kingsley – Westward Ho!
  • D.H. Lawrence – Sons And Lovers
  • Gaston Leroux – The Phantom of the Opera
  • Jack London – The Call of the Wild
  • Jack London – White Fang
  • Herman Melville – Moby Dick
  • Edgar Allen Poe – Tales of Mystery and Imagination
  • Sir Walter Scott – Ivanhoe
  • Sir Walter Scott – Rob Roy
  • Sir Walter Scott – Waverley
  • Anna Sewell – Black Beauty
  • William Shakespeare – All’s Well That Ends Well
  • William Shakespeare – Antony and Cleopatra
  • William Shakespeare – As You Like It
  • William Shakespeare – The Comedy of Errors
  • William Shakespeare – Hamlet
  • William Shakespeare – Julius Caesar
  • William Shakespeare – King Henry the Fifth
  • William Shakespeare – King Lear
  • William Shakespeare – King Richard the Third
  • William Shakespeare – Love’s Labour’s Lost
  • William Shakespeare – Macbeth
  • William Shakespeare – The Merchant of Venice
  • William Shakespeare – A Midsummer-Night’s Dream
  • William Shakespeare – Much Ado About Nothing
  • William Shakespeare – Othello, the Moor of Venice
  • William Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet
  • William Shakespeare – The Taming of the Shrew
  • William Shakespeare – The Tempest
  • William Shakespeare – Timon of Athens
  • William Shakespeare – Titus Andronicus
  • William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night
  • William Shakespeare – The Winter’s Tale
  • Robert Louis Stevenson – Kidnapped
  • Robert Louis Stevenson – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island
  • Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels
  • William Thackeray – Vanity Fair
  • Anthony Trollope – Barchester Towers
  • Mark Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Mark Twain – Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • Jules Verne – Round the World in Eighty Days
  • Jules Verne – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
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