We’re looking to sell my daughter’s pink Nintendo DS Lite and buy her an iPod Touch. The advantages are numerous: no games to loose; games are less expensive and can go on her iPod and both her parent’s iPhones; it’ll play movies; and when she’s ready for it, it’ll go online. However, in doing my research, I found out that the 8gb, $199 version is, like the $99 iPhone, the previous, less powerful model.

Chris Foresman for Ars Technica:

Ultimately, when shoppers go out to buy an iPod touch, many won’t really know the difference in capabilities, and may just be drawn to the $199 price tag. But given the huge boost in performance and capacity, the 32GB model represents a much better value.

That does change things. The cheapest current model is $100 more than the 8GB model.

Capacity is a distant secondary concern. However, I have no intention of buying a brand-new, already-old iPod Touch that’ll be not one, but two generations old when Apple next updates the product line. Especially since this is supposed to be replacing a video game system, and will be used for power-hungry video games.

Disappointing.