The DS Lite is definately better than the DS. However, it killed my wallet. Game Stop wouldn't take my old DS becuase one of the upper-screens joints (that holds it to the bottom part) was broken. It still worked just fine, but they said that they wouldn't take it. Sooo... now I have both old and new, but that gave me a chance to compare the two. All of my games looked better on the DS Lite. Final Fantasy: DoS almost looked as good as its playstation counterpart. Anyway... At least now I can play multi-player with my sister/ friends that don't have a DS.