The big FFXIV Gil ceremony to arise out of Nintendo admiral Satoru Iwata's 2009 Bold Developers Appointment keynote abode this morning was the accepting of a new Zelda bold for the DS, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. However, Nintendo aswell spent some time beforehand the DS's soon-to-be-released almsman (though not replacement), the DSi. According to a representative, the redesigned handheld has awash 2 abecedarian units aback its Japanese array in November, with Amazon preorders in the US amounting to added than any bold artefact in history. Afterwards in the day, Nintendo offered a added all-embracing presentation on the DSi, which is accustomed to be arise in the US on April 5. DSi activity avant-garde Masato Kuwahara hosted the session, which was blue-blooded "The Afflatus Abaft Nintendo DSi Development."
Kuwahara began his allocution by giving a abrupt appointment of his antecedent acquaintance at Nintendo, with highlights including plan on the Bold Boy Camera and Bold Boy Printer, as able-bodied as the Bold Boy Avant-garde wireless adapter. This work, he said, heavily aided him in his role in arch development on the DSi. According to Kuwahara, Nintendo saw that in 2006, there was about one DS per domiciliary in Japan. However, the company's ambition was one DS per individual, and this became the alive force abaft the DSi's development process.