Happy Lite

28 June 2006

To try and counteract the negativity of yesterday’s post, here’s something I like for a change:

The Nintendo DS Lite is possibly the best games machine ever made.

Better then the Snes. Better then the original Gameboy. Better then the Playstation.

The combination of a really nice hardware design – finally, someone other then Apple gets it – with innovative features such as the touch screen is a real winner. This coupled with the best game I’ve played in ages – New Super Mario – just hits it out of the ball park.

It’s the little touches, though, that make you realise why Nintendo are the masters of the game business. Things like the sleep function, which lets you shut the DS and open it at later point exactly where you left off. Or the simple joy of the bundled Pico Chat WiFi IM program, which lets you send crude, hand drawn pictures to your friends.

I fail to see why anybody would spend the extra ~£40 on a PSP.

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28 June 2006