DS Lite doesn't just play DS games – it also features an additional port for Game Boy Advance Game Paks
Get up to 19 hours continuous gameplay on one charge
Ready to take on the world? With Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, you can connect wirelessly, chat with friends while you play and compete with Nintendo DS owners across the globe. All you need to play is a Nintendo DS and a Wi-Fi-ready game
Twin ultra bright LCD screens that combine crisp, punchy colors, along with touch-screen technology on the lower screen
Powerful dual processors bring 3D graphics to life with lightning-fast rendering
Product Description
The Nintendo DS Lite manages to pack even more fun into a smaller, slimmer body that's less than two thirds the size of the original Nintendo DS.Nintendo DS Lite might be over 20% lighter than Nintendo DS, but it's a lot heavier on features. Nintendo DS Lite doesn't just play DS games - it also features an additional port for Game Boy Advance Game Paks.Nintendo DS Lite has twin ultra bright LCD screens that combine crisp, punchy colors, along with touch-screen technology on the lower screen to deliver some of the most groundbreaking gameplay ever developed.Nintendo DS Lite has powerful dual processors that bring impressive 3D graphics to life with lightning-fast rendering. Even the stylus for Nintendo DS Lite has been redesigned. It's longer and thicker and works with the system's improved controls to make gameplay even more fun.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews
"very good"2009-10-28
By Jose (Caracas, Venezuela)
very good
execelente the product, purchasing and shipping geestion.
I congratulate
"Not just for kids"2009-10-11
By D. Snedden (Windom, MN)
I have enjoyed playing my DS Lite everyday since I've received it. I love the word games and Sudoko puzzles. Easy to use. Now I don't have to borrow my kids'.
"Love it!"2009-09-23
By JCL
I just love my DS Lite System. I had seen these around, but did not realize how much fun it would be. The Neon Green Color is fantastic, and the Carrying Case is lovely too - holds 3 additional games. The system comes with an additional stylus (nice touch). I bought this for the color and carrying case, and I have yet to try the cooking trainer/game. I currently am using Brain Age, and loving it too. Two thumbs up Nintendo!
"Like Nothing Else"2009-08-31
By Strategos (In Space above Planet Earth)
We live in an interesting time in terms of personal computing. PCs have become pretty much as powerful as they can become in terms of primary processing power and still have an effect on work that ordinary people do (NASA scientists and artificial intelligence application may need 16-core processors but word processing and mp3 playback sure as heck don't, and only a faster GPU can produce better graphics these days). So naturally what everyone is focusing on is the area that's been lacking for ages, the PDA, pocket computers, cell phones, ect which do everything from take pictures to playing games, from checking stock portfolios and eBay auction to actually taking a phone call. What does all this have to do with the Nintendo DS? It may have started as a mere portable game system, but it has evolved into much, much more.
I remember back around January 2005 when the Nintendo DS was hot stuff in the news, and sales rep at a game store tried to sell me on the idea. "Tell me. Why would I want one of these?" I asked. He proceeded to tell me all about how the system had a touch-screen with stylus, wireless networking, two screens, ect, ect. And my only response to each feature was that that was one more reason why NOT to get the system. At the time I had memories of atrocious handwriting recognition, hard to read screens, and wireless connections that were wildly insecure and constantly dropping. Why the heck would I want something like that? I think at the time it was a good decision not to buy one, but right now it's a different story.
The original DS had a very dim screen and was darn ugly. The current DS is light-years better. It features a brilliant screen that is highly usable and easy on the eyes, sleek styling that doesn't make you embarassed to lug the thing around, and all the features that a portable game system ought to have (you can play against other DS players wirelessly in the same room, suspend your game by closing the lid, change the brightness, and go for hours and hours before you need a recharge).
With all Nintendo products these days you have to deal with what might be called the Nintendo blessing/curse, which is quite similar to the one bestowed by Apple Computer these days. In other words, on the one hand you get a trend device that's very user-friendly and trendy, but on the other hand features software that is horribly over-priced. While the DS does 3D, it simply is nowhere near the level offered by the PSP. It's the portable equivalent of the Wii. Cool features, terribly under-powered, and none too cheap for what you get.
If you want to buy a PSP game these days you can pick one up for around $30.00 to $40.00 new, and about $10.00 to $15.00 used. Nintendo DS games on the other hand, despite worse graphics, and extremely limited multimedia capability (you're not really gonna cram a lot of high-quality video onto a cartridge), cost about $30.00 to $40.00 new or more, and used cost about... $25.00 to $30.00!!!!! Given the extremely low power of the system in comparison to the PSP in the realm of 3D graphics, this isn't competition. It's price fixing and profiteering at Nintendo fan's expense. Nintendo doesn't reduce the price of it's games or reclass them as "greatest hits". Instead they keep the prices the same as the day the game came out...and pretend that it just came out! Now, don't get me wrong, Mario Kart DS is probably a great game. Probably worth $30.00 new and $15.00 used. But not $30.00 used. That's just silly. Like paying $15.00 to see a movie in a non-digital theater, or $15.00 for a tuna sandwich. But like Apple, Nintendo primarily markets to the rich, so they don't care!
Given that I only own a couple of games for the system, why do I still highly recommend it as a purchase? Because of the incredible Gameboy Advance games available! Unlike DS games, the price of GBA games are actually either proportional the game's actual worth, or incredible steals! And not only that, genres which are terribly under-represented on other systems can be found in high quality by the truckload for the GBA. For instance, the turn-based RPG/strategy genre: Fire Emblem (1,2), Rebel Star (X-Com game on a portable!), Tactics Ogre (for less than a quarter the price on playstation!), Final Fantasy Tactics, Age of Empires, Super Robot Wars (1,2), and about a gajillion game from Atlus. Add to that some truly excellent action titles (Gunstar Heroes, Metroid, Apprentice of the Force, TMNT), and 2D platformers and RPGs (Final Fantasy, Rayman, Spyro, Crash, Mario Brothers, Golden Sun), racing games (F-Zero, Moto-Racer, Mario Kart) and you have a system well worth buying for the absolutely HUGE amount of gameplay to be found on the cheap.
And then there are the games that you might be able to pick up on the cheap for the DS proper. Yes, you have to be almost a professional game-hunter like myself to find them, but there are great deals on DS games now and then, and when you find them there are some really amazing games to be found. Quite simply, while the stylus is a really strange way to control games (and totally impractical for many kinds of games it is unfortunately used for) some developers have found ways to make games that not only use the stylus well, but would be impossible to play any other way! Trauma Center, Phoenix Wright, The World Ends With You and Sega's wacky Feel the Magic definitly show a new kind of gameplay, one which absolutely depends on the stylus and uses it perfectly. These games simply have no equivalent on any other system. If you are a fan of adventure games, or just really unusual games, you need a DS just so you can experience games like this.
And you could almost write a whole book about the effect that Brain Age has had on the gaming world. You could say that it's just a series of mini-games, but in actuality Brain Age and games (if you can even call them games) like it have changed portable entertainment by proving that game systems can be awesome educational tools that require mere minutes to improve a skills (be it cooking, speaking Japanese, or improving your eyesight). Back in the days of the CD-Rom revolution (Philips CD-I, 3DO, ect) companies tried to market game systems as educational tools. Amazing that Nintendo finally did it, using a portable game system! If you want to learn a new skill in bit-sized portions on the go, there simply is no equivalent to the DS.
So there you have it, the DS is a great system if you want to play Gameboy Advance games, a terrible system if you only want to play new games and are on a really tight budget (if you can't afford to pay new prices for used items). If you want or need to experience some REALLY different kinds of gameplay or learn a skill in minutes on the go, you've absolutely got to get one. Don't buy new. Buy used. You can get a DS in like-new condition for around $70.00.
"Awesome!"2009-08-28
By P. Robinson (Atlanta, GA)
I previously owned a gameboy and I a very pleased with this product. Definitely worth the cost.
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