There are many celebrities you’d associate with being keen gamers, such as footballers, TV presenters and musicians. However, comedian and renowned egghead Stephen Fry isn’t one of them. You’d be wrong though, as Stephen is a very keen gamer and an avid fan of his ‘pink’ DS Lite and his Nintendo Wii.

Although Stephen Fry owning a DS Lite might be something of a surprise, his DS being pink is perhaps less so.

My DS Lite is pink. There was so much demand earlier this year that they couldn’t be had for bribes, sexual favours or worse. Unless you accepted girly pink. The moment you open it, you are taken back to the old Game & Watch days but can see why the DS has succeeded so well with the middle class, the middle-aged and the Hello Kitty/My Little Strawberry Shortcake Pony set. You set up in a twinkle and then play on two screens, one of which accepts stylus input and touches.

Like many gamers who have realised that the simplicity of the DS Lite more than makes up for any technical inadequacy compared to the Sony PSP, Stephen Fry is firmly in the DS Lite camp.

The DS is nothing like as feature rich as the PlayStation Portable, but it isn’t trying to be. You can feel admiration and even awe for the big power boxes, but for the DS you feel affection - and that, in marketing terms, is worth a whole heap more.

The DS Lite is technically inferior to the PSP, yes, but just like the Nintendo Wii is to the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360, it’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you do with it that counts. The DS Lite and the Nintendo Wii have done so much with what they have.