The strategy marks a major shift for Nintendo. Previous versions of the DS were mainly old-fashioned consoles that required cartridges to play games. With the DSi's Wi-Fi and SD card features, Nintendo pushes further into the digital platform business. That puts it squarely in competition against Apple, which has been luring big-name studios to sell downloadable blockbuster games for the iPhone through the App Store. Studios that might have had second thoughts about manufacturing cartridges for the DS now have an online distribution channel...

..Nintendo president Satoru Iwata took the wraps off the DSi, which packs a bulit-in camera, music playback and a bigger display than the current model. The DSi will ship in Japan on November 1, migrating to the US in 2009. It will sell for 18,900 yen, which translates to about US$179.

Hillcrest Laboratories seeks to block imports of the Wii and Wii remotes, according to a complaint filed today with the US International Trade Commission in Washington. Hillcrest also filed a civil suit in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland.