The DSi XL shows once and for all that gaming is no longer just for gamers

The explosion of casual gaming over the last few years, primed by companies like PopCap and touched off by Nintendo's incredibly accessible Wii, has put gaming firmly in the mainstream. Halo, Grand Theft Auto, and other AAA games, while not by any stretch of the imagination "casual," end up selling in the tens of millions of units, resulting in billions of dollars in revenue. Nintendo employees were said to generate more money per employee than Goldman Sachs, and the growth of the industry was barely hampered by recession. Despite all this, there is still a double misapprehension about the gaming world: "non-gamers" think games are for gamers, and "gamers" think games are well, for them. The reality is that games have reached the point where games are simply a product, easily divisible into categories the way TV shows and movies, and indeed things like cameras and microwaves are. Games used to be made for gamers, and money was a pleasant by-product. Now the game is a pleasant by-product of the money-making process. And the DSi XL is a perfect exemplar of this new situation.

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Picked up a DSi XL after playing my DS games on my 3DS for years, it's definitely worth it : r/nds

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The DSi XL, a greatly underrated hand held. Some games just work better with both screens being of the same size. : r/gamecollecting

DSI XL powers on fine, its fully charged, but only shows black screens : r/nds

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Wii and Nintendo DSi stores have been down for days, what's going on? - Meristation

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Found my old dsi XL and was gonna ask reddit to help figure out what was wrong with it turns out the only game it wouldn't play was my old 'hax card'.