Honestly, I don't think I've ever been as happy with a new system as I am with the XL....I can't believe this shit was only $199.
Makes me think I ought to wait a year or so for all my console purchases. Right now, I'm looking forward to getting through a bunch of games (almost done with 3Dland, gonna get Tales, Zelda, and NSMB after), whereas if I had bought at launch I'd have to wait weeks for new releases. I'm the kind of gamer that plays in spurts; I'll beat 4 games in the course of a week and then not play anything new for a month. Having an established library on a new system helps me keep my momentum.
Also, hot damn does the thing look sexy. It helps that I looooved the DS, and I actually never upgraded from a phat (in retrospect, a terrible decision lol. And I have like ~50 DS games too) so this is like a massive leap for me, but fuck
It looks so goooood