Uh oh. Nintendo’s big announcement yesterday seems to have fallen a little flat. In fact, Nintendo’s stocks fell some 9% (8.7%, to be exact) on the heels of the announcement.

Ouch.

There are several things that attributed to the drop off. According to Retela Crea Securities Com’s Yoku Ihara, the drop off was in part because the DS announcement failed to exceed the expectations of investors. Of course, the fact that the world stock markets are going bananas probably isn’t helping, either.

If that weren’t bad enough, some analysts are already willing to dismiss the DSi. Case in point, UBS’ Ben Schacter, who sounded thoroughly unimpressed with the device as a whole:

The new functions to be added to the DSi are no more than minor changes, and as such are unlikely to expand the NDS user base, in our view…

“Additional functions may extend the software line-up but not by enough to further boost consumer spending… Body size will be smaller, but not enough to change convenience dramatically.

Ouch. Even I wouldn’t be that hard on the handheld. Sure, I’m disappointed that they took away the GBA slot, but I’ll live.

Still, what do y’all think of the new Nintendo DSi? Are you excited? Not excited? Indifferent? A PSP fanboy? What’s the deal?

via GamesIndustry and The Feed

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