Great for girls too!
We love the new system almost as much as our daughters do. We bought them each a DSi and they are crazy about them. One of them is seven years old, one of them is ten, and the oldest girl is thirteen. We got them the game systems for Christmas after reading some really convincing Nintendo DSi reviews. People were just raving about the new system and they kept talking about the new features, the camera, the external memory, the music player, and online store and the internet features. It sounded like it actually might be too good to be true, and boy did we save those receipts just in case. After spending that much money to buy three of them, we were very careful to cover our bases just in case they didn’t work out and we needed to return them. We didn’t though, because they are great. Honestly, we were torn at first as to whether we should buy DSi for three girls, after all, video games tend to be more of a boy thing. But the games aren’t all necessarily geared toward boys. Some of the old favorites, like any of the Mario themed games, are a big hit with the girls, and that’s great. Our seven year old is crazy about Hannah Montana, and of course there is a Hannah Montana game for the DS that she plays all the time. The oldest girl is kind of a tomboy, and she likes some of the sports themed games that you can get in DS format. All the girls have the exact same game system, even the same color, but they all got to pick out their favorite kinds of games. That is the really neat thing about the Nintendo DSi and all the other game systems they have come up with. There is a great game for everybody, no matter what their interests.
Another great part was that as soon as we found out where to buy Nintendo DSi, we also knew where to buy the games. But if there is ever a game that one of them wants that we can’t find in the stores, we are hoping that we’ll be able to get it online through the DSi shop, where you can buy Nintendo DSi games (and even download some for free). Although I know there is an online feature with the DSi, they girls don’t use it much. They are pretty happy just to sit there and play games on their own. If we had though to buy a DSi when it first came out, then they would maybe have a better handle on all the features- but it didn’t take long at all for them to figure out how to use the basic functions that they need for playing games. We were pretty glad to find out that the system is so user friendly, because we have very little experience with video games and would probably have been useless trying to show them how to work the games. We’re just glad they like them.
Stacy - Baton Rouge, LA
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