Just picked me up one today, didn't mind the fact they were white-only as that's the color I normally choose for my devices (aside from my black PC).....so here's my little overview of the system for those who haven't read the millions out there...
All I can say is first and foremost, is that, man this thing is freaking bright, it's brightest mode rivals that of the PSPs 4th brightness level option, which for the the PSP, is only available when it's hooked up to the AC adapter...
Overall, quite a nice system, definately would take it over the normal DS anyday, only thing I have to keep in mind is that a few of my older DS games look worse on higher brightness levels as the games were designed around the old-DSs screen, so some things will appear too saturated or bright on this little baby, unless you tone it down to it's lowest level.
(which is the nearly the equivelent brightness of the old DS's screen, or so I could see side-by-side anyway)
Although for some games it does the reverse, some of the developers apparently didn't adjust the game graphics to look their best on the old-DS screen, and those games just look absolutely fab on the DSLite, where they were a little dark otherwise.
Couple things that really bug me about the system though....for one, they supplied only a single stylus, and they used a new (although better) stylus that's a bit more comfortable for us big-handed people, more length, bit more meat to it...but still, only one was included in my package, and I'm already on my 2nd stylus on my old DS..
Another thing that also bugged me was that the wrist-strap (that includes the thumb-thingy) is sold seperately....which I didn't know at the time, so I now have to make another trip to the store to buy the DSLite strap so I can play Metroid Prime the way I prefer.
(Still trying to keep my old DS as a whole unit, so I aint going to steal the one from it and slap it on this one, and the fact the DS came with one to begin with and appeared commonly used seemed like a step backwards not including it with the Lite)
Love the weight-balance on another topic, it feels more natural with the top-screen being near weightless, and all the weight instead being put on the bottom screen, where you hold the system. System has been downsized a bit, is actually near pocket-friendly status so far (although nowhere near as pocket-friendly as my GBMicro, that thing is SMALL), bit from my play experiance it'll appear that I may get cramps a little sooner playing games that make heavy use of the shoulder buttons, may have to find me a new way to relax my hands while holding it to prevent that.
Main thing that made me purchase the system though was the viewing-angle of the screen was increased slightly, as well as the fact the screens now do their LCD thing at steep angles the same way, both either go inversed colors, or bright, on the old DS when tilted, one screen went brighter, while the other inverted....and that bugged me quite a bit.
Another thing that I feel may bug some people is the fact the GBA-slot has been downsized in its length, so GBA carts stick out a bit, but not to the extent as say, legacy GameBoy games did on the GBA, but it's still noticable which detracts from the otherwise sleek look.
(that look being nice and coated so I wont see any of the plastic's paint job rub off as I've experiance on both my GBA-SP & old-DS)
Just a bit sad that this is basically replacing my DS, where-as when I got my GameBoy Micro, it was for road=trip purposes over my GBA-SP, getting a bit of withdrawl since I clocked so many hours on the thing....more-so now that I have to restart all my accounts on Nintendo-WiFi as those things are saved with the DS....will take awhile for me to get my 693 rounds of Tetris DS online back.
On the upside, now got me an additional DS system to play single-cart games with against friends that come over.
(my sis has her own old-DS, so that's 3 total in this house-hold, and from the look on her face after see'ing my Lite, it'll likely be 4 soon >.> )
Would post pics, but my PC is undergoing maintenances, and this PC here I'm currently using only has a crappy 320x240 web-cam installed.
All I can say is first and foremost, is that, man this thing is freaking bright, it's brightest mode rivals that of the PSPs 4th brightness level option, which for the the PSP, is only available when it's hooked up to the AC adapter...
Overall, quite a nice system, definately would take it over the normal DS anyday, only thing I have to keep in mind is that a few of my older DS games look worse on higher brightness levels as the games were designed around the old-DSs screen, so some things will appear too saturated or bright on this little baby, unless you tone it down to it's lowest level.
(which is the nearly the equivelent brightness of the old DS's screen, or so I could see side-by-side anyway)
Although for some games it does the reverse, some of the developers apparently didn't adjust the game graphics to look their best on the old-DS screen, and those games just look absolutely fab on the DSLite, where they were a little dark otherwise.
Couple things that really bug me about the system though....for one, they supplied only a single stylus, and they used a new (although better) stylus that's a bit more comfortable for us big-handed people, more length, bit more meat to it...but still, only one was included in my package, and I'm already on my 2nd stylus on my old DS..
Another thing that also bugged me was that the wrist-strap (that includes the thumb-thingy) is sold seperately....which I didn't know at the time, so I now have to make another trip to the store to buy the DSLite strap so I can play Metroid Prime the way I prefer.
(Still trying to keep my old DS as a whole unit, so I aint going to steal the one from it and slap it on this one, and the fact the DS came with one to begin with and appeared commonly used seemed like a step backwards not including it with the Lite)
Love the weight-balance on another topic, it feels more natural with the top-screen being near weightless, and all the weight instead being put on the bottom screen, where you hold the system. System has been downsized a bit, is actually near pocket-friendly status so far (although nowhere near as pocket-friendly as my GBMicro, that thing is SMALL), bit from my play experiance it'll appear that I may get cramps a little sooner playing games that make heavy use of the shoulder buttons, may have to find me a new way to relax my hands while holding it to prevent that.
Main thing that made me purchase the system though was the viewing-angle of the screen was increased slightly, as well as the fact the screens now do their LCD thing at steep angles the same way, both either go inversed colors, or bright, on the old DS when tilted, one screen went brighter, while the other inverted....and that bugged me quite a bit.
Another thing that I feel may bug some people is the fact the GBA-slot has been downsized in its length, so GBA carts stick out a bit, but not to the extent as say, legacy GameBoy games did on the GBA, but it's still noticable which detracts from the otherwise sleek look.
(that look being nice and coated so I wont see any of the plastic's paint job rub off as I've experiance on both my GBA-SP & old-DS)
Just a bit sad that this is basically replacing my DS, where-as when I got my GameBoy Micro, it was for road=trip purposes over my GBA-SP, getting a bit of withdrawl since I clocked so many hours on the thing....more-so now that I have to restart all my accounts on Nintendo-WiFi as those things are saved with the DS....will take awhile for me to get my 693 rounds of Tetris DS online back.
On the upside, now got me an additional DS system to play single-cart games with against friends that come over.
(my sis has her own old-DS, so that's 3 total in this house-hold, and from the look on her face after see'ing my Lite, it'll likely be 4 soon >.> )
Would post pics, but my PC is undergoing maintenances, and this PC here I'm currently using only has a crappy 320x240 web-cam installed.