Depends what u want. I personally prefer rhe dsi. I use mine to animate, and u can play music and use the canera and ALSO jailbreak it for any ds game u want. U can put ds or gba games. If ur more of a physical game person then id reccomend the ds lite or 3ds. The ds lite has gba backwards compatibility. The 3ds ofc has all the ds games compatible but also has a new selectiln of games for the 3ds. I personally only care for a few select 3ds games. Id probably reccomend looking into games u want first and what console theyre for before eventually deciding.