Buy Nintendo DSi

I was trying to figure out a few days ago if I was going to spend the money to buy a DSi. To understand why I would have to think about it, you have to realize that my son goes through game systems like crazy. One minute he wants this one, the next he wants that one, and the third he just has to have the most expensive thing on the market. A lot of the times he doesn’t even play with the game systems he gets for very long, and then he’s trying to sell them in order to get a new game system.

Then I realized that the one game system that he hasn’t sold in all the years that he’s been selling game systems is the DS. We bought him a DS a few years ago. Or, rather, we bought him part of one – he sold his Gamecube in order to get one. He played it a little bit but didn’t seem to love it until we traveled to Florida a few months after we bought it.

On the trip, he played it all the time. He used the voice commands and was able to do some neat stuff with some of his games, and it seemed like the batteries lasted a lot longer than I thought they would. When I asked him what his favorite thing to look at during the long drive had been, he replied, “the DS screen”. Of course.

The DSi

Now I’m trying to figure out if I should buy Nintendo DSi or not. All of the DSi reviews that I’ve read show that it is a good system, and some of the things that it’s supposed to be able to do surprise me! I can’t believe that you can take pictures with it, and that you can use the system to listen to music. It seems like technology is just getting better and better, and it’s nice that they can bundle it all up together like this, so that you don’t have to buy eighteen different gadgets in order to do the stuff you want to do.

From what I’ve read, when you buy a DSi, you aren’t able to play the games from the other Nintendo handheld systems that you’ve owned, which is kind of a bummer, but I guess it make sense. It’s a fairly good trade-off, now that I think about it, because you can do so much more with this system than you can do with the DS. Yes, I’ll probably be trying to figure out where to purchase one when it becomes available in the states, and I’m sure my son will actually want to keep his DS, which will be a change.