Nintendo have confirmed many circulating rumors with the announcement of a new model of their DS, the Nintendo DSi.

This third iteration of the DS was revealed at Nintendo’s own Fall Press Conference today while Nintendo preempt their lack of a Tokyo Game Show presence later this year and let loose with some Christmas announcements.

A release date of November 1st has been confirmed for Japan while the rest of the world is waiting for a 2009 release. This time around the improvements are clearly far less cosmetic so some significant hardware upheavals are expected and somewhat provided.

This new DS model will most notably feature larger screens (3.25 inches over the current 3) yet omit the Game Boy Advance port which I’m a little upset about. Removing the GBA port will allow a thinner DS and enable room for an SD Card so no loss without gain. On board flash memory will also complement SD Card capabilities as great use for new online service titled “DSWare”

While initial details are slim, “DSWare” appears to provide similar services to that of WiiWare for gamers to download full games and software onto the DSi’s internal or SD Card memory. Software downloads for the DSWare network will be purchased via the Nintendo Points method again akin to that of the Wii.

Two digital cameras will be included with a three megapixel external camera alongside a 0.3 MP internal for future support across games and the internet. Audio will get a much needed improvement with new speakers and extra audio tweaking abilities such as a pitch option and finally a web browser will be built-in by default.

Check out the video below just released, thanks to Kotaku.

Heads Up: A few sites are reporting the DSi to include two touch screens. I’ve managed to find no proof of this yet so until then Space-Meat shall not report it!