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The Bottom Line: Now that it has a brighter screen, Nintendo's Game Boy Advance SP is the budget champ for portable gaming.

Specs: Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP - Game console, Handheld, Cartridge, 1 x Sharp ARM7TDMI, 256 KB WRAM - Integrated

The Bottom Line: Now that it has a brighter screen, Nintendo's Game Boy Advance SP is the budget champ for portable gaming.

Specs: Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP Pink Edition - Game console, Handheld, Cartridge, 1 x Sharp ARM7TDMI, 256 KB WRAM - Integrated

The Bottom Line: The Core System is a cheaper, bare-bones version of Microsoft's Xbox 360.

Specs: Xbox 360 Core System - Game console, DVD-ROM, 1 x IBM PowerPC 3 cores 3.2 GHz, 512 MB ( 512 MB ) GDDR3 SDRAM - Integrated, 1920 x 1080

The Bottom Line: Nintendo's latest Game Boy has an interesting design but doesn't offer anything you can't find in the company's other portables.

Specs: Nintendo Game Boy Micro - Game console, Handheld, Cartridge, 1 x Sharp ARM7TDMI 16.8 MHz, 256 KB WRAM

The Bottom Line: Nintendo's latest Game Boy has an interesting design but doesn't offer anything you can't find in the company's other portables.

Specs: Nintendo Game Boy Micro Special 20th Anniversary Edition - Game console, Handheld, Cartridge, 1 16.8 MHz, 256 KB

The Bottom Line: Nintendo's latest Game Boy has an interesting design but doesn't offer anything you can't find in the company's other portables.

Specs: Nintendo Game Boy Micro - Game console, Handheld, Cartridge, 1 x Sharp ARM7TDMI 16.8 MHz, 256 KB WRAM

The Bottom Line: The Sony PSP elevates portable gaming to the next level, but its multimedia functionality falls short of its full potential.

Specs: Sony PlayStation Portable - Game console, Handheld, UMD (Universal Media Disc), 333 MHz, 32 MB - Integrated

The Bottom Line: Sony's slimmed-down, network-ready PS2 is a welcome update to the world's most popular video game console.

Specs: Sony PlayStation 2 - Game console, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, Toshiba & Sony Emotion Engine 294.9 MHz, 32 MB RDRAM (RAMBUS) - Integrated, 32-bit color / 1280 x 1024

The Bottom Line: While it lacks the multimedia and graphical finesse of the Sony PSP, the feature-packed Nintendo DS is a worthy successor to the Game Boy Advance--but the new and improved DS Lite is available for the same price.

Specs: Nintendo DS - Game console, Handheld, Cartridge, 2

The Bottom Line: While it lacks the multimedia and graphical finesse of the Sony PSP, the feature-packed Nintendo DS is a worthy successor to the Game Boy Advance--but the new and improved DS Lite is available for the same price.

Specs: Nintendo DS - Game console, Handheld, Cartridge, 2