{"id":8801,"date":"2006-02-17T12:53:38","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T12:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8801"},"modified":"2006-02-17T12:53:38","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T12:53:38","slug":"hands-on-review-of-the-nintendo-ds-lite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8801","title":{"rendered":"Hands-On Review of the Nintendo DS Lite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/image.lik-sang.com\/images\/170\/nintendods-lite-blue.jpg\" align=\"right\">Those eager-beavers over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kotaku.com\">Kotaku<\/a> have the first (that we&#8217;ve seen) hands-on review of the upcoming Nintendo DS Lite. The Lite, for those who haven&#8217;t been following the portable gaming market, is Nintendo&#8217;s redesign of the chunky, ugly (chugly?) original DS, released about a year and half ago in the US. The Lite is, as you might have guessed, lighter. It&#8217;s also smaller and has some of the features repositioned &#8211; such as the microphone and power button, and the d-pad and buttons are firmer. <\/p>\n<p> Most importantly though, the DS Lite has the improved screens that were recently debuted on the upgraded version of the GameBoy Advance and Micro. It&#8217;s the screens that really make the object drool-worthy for me &#8211; I would have bought a DS long ago, but when I first picked up a friend&#8217;s unit I just couldn&#8217;t get over how dim and lo-res the screens looked. The DS Lite is only available in (or imported from) Japan, starting March 2, but will be hitting the US in a few months.<\/p>\n<p> Tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lik-sang.com\">Lik-Sang<\/a> has it for US$170.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those eager-beavers over at Kotaku have the first (that we&#8217;ve seen) hands-on review of the upcoming Nintendo DS Lite. The Lite, for those who haven&#8217;t been following the portable gaming market, is Nintendo&#8217;s redesign of the chunky, ugly (chugly?) original DS, released about a year and half ago in the US. The Lite is, as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8801\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hands-On Review of the Nintendo DS Lite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}