DSi Will Peacefully Coexist with the DS Lite on U.S. Store Shelves

The recently-announced Nintendo DSi will not, as confirmed by a Nintendo spokesperson, replace the DS Lite in the U.S. Her reasoning? The DS Lite is in half of all Japanese households, but only a fifth of U.S. households. Apparently this kind of whirlwind success actually means there is "huge untapped potential" for the Lite, so Nintendo is going to let the two brothers sit side by side, at least for awhile.

http://gizmodo.com/5059083/dsi-will-...-store-shelves

I smell another Sega Saturn/Sega 32x situation.

For how long?

I was excited when I heard of a new unit with bigger screens, but it turns out theyre hardly any bigger at all.
I dont see this creating a megadrive/megacd/32x situation, unless a lot of popular games start using the new features for anything other than downloading games that can be bought on carts for the lite and fat DSs.

It would be great if the flash cart makers found a way to get the downloadable content running on older DSs....