Buy-Wii

I plan to buy the system for my son.

My son is twelve, and he doesn’t have a portable game system yet.  He has the Xbox, but he doesn’t have one that he can take with him when we go out of town.  I thought about getting him one of the portable ones for Christmas last year, but he ended up saying he wanted a ton of games for the TV system he already has, so that blew the gift budget.  I kind of wish that the Nintendo DSi was going to be out before Christmas this year, but it’s not going to be out until next spring.  We are going to buy Nintendo DSi for him for his birthday in June, so he should be pretty happy about that.  We’re just hoping it’s not going to be like the Playstation releases where a hundred people line up at the store for four units and 96 people leave angry.  We don’t want to deal with that, so we’re looking where to buy Nintendo DSi ahead of time, then maybe we’ll have some options if we need them.

I like to really check out major purchases before I buy, and the $180 they are talking for the price on the Nintendo DSi system certainly qualifies as a major purchase in my opinion.  So I’ve been bouncing around on the internet for several weeks now, ever since I heard that the new one existed.  I really wanted to check it out and make sure that it is going to be worth the money.  So I’ve been reading every single Nintendo DSi review I can find, and weighing the positive stuff I’ve been reading against the bad stuff.  I’ve found a few comments about the music function that have made me give this some extra thought, but I’m not sure just how big a deal it is.  Something about the music file format being different that a regular MP3 player, but I’ll have to do some more research on that.  It doesn’t really matter, I don’t think, because he doesn’t have an MP3 player anyway, just his CD player.

One of the things that helped me decide to buy Nintendo DSi is that it has a digital camera built in.  I have a digital camera, but when my son goes to football games, sometimes he asks to borrow it.  I’m always worried about it getting broken, and the built in camera and SD memory slot in the DSi will solve the whole problem.  He can just take his game to the football game and take pictures on his own camera.  This way, it will be his own device that he will have to be responsible for and I think he will take better care of it that way.  So between the portability and the built in camera feature, I’m ready to buy Nintendo DSi for my son.  I’m a little nervous about it because it costs more than I’m used to spending, but I’m pretty sure he will like it a lot.