Nintendo DSi Australian release date - not this Xmas - 26/11/2008 by Andrew
If you've been following Japan's DSi release and were hoping for to purchase one for Christmas, well you better fire up eBay because you're not getting one over the counter in Australia this year.
There's currently no 'official' release date for Australia, though it's been hinted that we're scheduled for a H2 2009 release (in layman's terms: second half of 2009). Considering that the DS Lite is still selling like hotcakes (speaking of which, have you bought a hotcake in the last decade? I haven't) so there's little reason for Nintendo to replace it quickly.
On the upside, the DSi is region locked and it hasn't yet been hacked to the same extent that the original DS has been so by the time it IS released in Australia there should be plenty of mods available.