The big-screen LL/XL handheld will reach late next month, and we've also been told the console will be out in during the 'first quarter' of 2010 - as it will be in the United States, we're told.

In Japan, the system will for 20,000 Yen (just over 200 USD), and it'll a 4.2 inch screen - designed to make the device better as a media player.

No concrete date for either Europe or the has been offered, nor pricing in fact, raising the possibility that we'll be forced to wait until early in the new year to find out these vital factoids.

We'll be taking a closer look at this revised DSi just as soon as we can.

By Luke Guttridge