Nintendo DS Lite (Crimson/Black)

Pros: Touch screen controls are pretty cool, better backlight provides more visible screen, much sleeker and slimmer than the original, sturdier L & R buttons than DS Phat, great range of games

Cons: Gathers dust from all over the known universe, sucks your fingerprints off from across the room, no multimedia functions non-exclusive to Japan, poor Wi-Fi functionality, Touch screen can cause lapses in control, Who REALLY uses Picto-Chat?

Summary: When I purchased the Nintendo DS and plugged it in, I expected to see cool touch screen innovations, and that's what I got. But what I wasn't expecting was a decent amount of above-average 3rd-party games and very good connectivity with friends. But wait! The only time I ever had a near-perfect multiplayer on Wi-Fi was when my friend and I were two feet away from our Wi-Fi signals. Anybody who you're playing in a different region is going to get a ton of connectivity errors and so will you. The Wi-Fi was fairly impressive when I was playing Pokemon Diamond and Mario Kart DS, but all of the 3rd-Party games that I've played have terrible connectivity issues that keep the DS's Wi-Fi function to be underwhelming.

Graphically, the DS doesn't disappiont, providing PS1 level graphics on a handheld console. And I thought Sony was the only game company that went absolutely crazed over slimming down consoles. Anyway, Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass has the best graphics that I can remember on a portable game system. It has great graphical capabilities and can use a lot of detail.

Overall, the DS is a quality product with a few flaws, but it's still worth a buy.

Nintendo DS Lite touches 4 screens out of 5.