Nintendo DS or DS Lite

[doddze]

My daughter wants top buty a nintendo with her birthday money (she's 7) and wants a Nintendo DS with the free Dog game (£99).... the Nintendo lite is £99 on it's own plus anothe £29 for the game. Is it worth spending the extra or are they just the same but one is smaller?

thanks

Paul

[Steve_Evil]

Essentially the same, the lite is smaller, screen is clearer and a little sharper and they made a couple of tweaks to where things were positioned like the mic. As to whether it's worth another £30, that all depends, you might well be able to find the lite with a free game bundled in, gamestation do so with selected titles and i'm sure if you asked nicely enough they might throw it in for only a little extra.

[Fer]

I think the Lite is a little more robust looking. Having said that, Fer Jr. has had his DS for 22 months and it has not broken yet! (Now where did Ted put that :fingerscrossed: smiley?)

[size13]

Look out for any deals.

I got a DS Lite with nintendogs for £109 from choices video

[d-man]

I'd say the screen is significantly better on the lite than the DS that I've seen.

While they've both got the same functionality, the lite seems a much better finished product. Less clunky looking, I find its ergonomically better and the battery lasts longer. If feels more robust too, but I haven't really abused either of them

GameStation are doing the lite for £110 with any game. I'd say the lite is well worth £10 over the old DS, at £30 it'd be a slightly harder call.

[ferlin]

The lite has a brighness control on the screen which is better than the ds and it also goes brighter too.
My daughter has just pre ordered a pink ds lite from Game for £99 which included the game monkey ball free too. they come out in a couple of weeks