Bought a Nintendo DS and...

It kicks, my only gripe is that it would make an awesme PDA but doesn\'t act as one . Aside from that and the price of games I htink I might just keep it, and if it sucks in a week I\'ll sell it on Ebay lol.

So does anyone else have one?

I\'ll be getting one for Christmas.  I won\'t be buying any games until Advance Wars DS unfortunately.

Hell yeah, and it\'s fantastic even though the only game I have is a port!

psp rulz ds droolz lolololo









... No, seriously, screw the DS. :l

I beat Feel the Magic and played through a bunch of Mario. I haven\'t touched it in a week. Whenever I carpool to work, though, it keeps me awake.

-Dan

DS seems alright. I played the metroid on it against a friend and i wasnt too impressed. The dual screen its all good but in that game it was nothing spectacular.

The graphics were decent for a handheld thusfar and the sound was standable.

Perhaps i played the wrong game to judge the DS. Then again i havent been much of a fan of Metroid ever since prime came out.

Its sad that the support for the PSP is dishing out a lot of ports. With some original content the PSP and DS could evenly compete on the same plain.

Yea i bought Mario Ds also, I love it. Great time killer and you know I\'m getting a PSP when that sucker comes out, I\'ll give the DS to my little bro .

I won\'t be getting one. Nintendo can have their N64 ports and gimmicks. I want PSP and only PSP.

[Jumpman]

That can\'t be my real homez Ethugg??

Yes, \'tis. Sadly, I\'ve become very disallusioned with Nintendo.  The PSP is just... it. I mean, it opened my eyes: this is where handhelds should be at (powerwise), and all Nintendo can do is keep dragging its feet, telling me (and all of us) that we don\'t \'want\' to just keep getting better graphics. Well, I as a matter of fact do. I don\'t want to play my games with an electronic pen. I don\'t want a second screen for maps and feeling up my game system. I want the best damn graphics money can buy. I want analog control. I\'m kinda disappointed in PSP\'s nub, but its still a bigger step in the right direction than DS. Their (Nintendo\'s) comments regarding power/graphics and Revolution reflect the same thinking, worrying me about that too. They should be asking, not telling us what we want. This attitude worked for NES. It even helped SNES catch up and dominate in the end (arguably). But it hasn\'t worked this gen, nor last in the console realm, and that doesn\'t, from what they\'ve been saying publicly, seem to be getting through to them. They have the same attitude with handhelds, and fortunately they\'ve had weak competition until now (I liked GG and Lynx, but they were never a threat). When PSP was announced, when it was unveiled, Nintendo should have taken a step back, and reevaluated DS. Instead they have turned it into the much touted \'3rd pillar\', and say a new real GB is on the horizon still. Either that\'s true, and DS will remain a side project, in which case they are dividing their market up (bad idea), or it\'s BS, and DS is their real new GB, and they are content to sit back with old tech and assume it will keep selling. DS has done well so far, but the new handhelds are both very young. This time next year, 2 years from now, 5 years from now, will Nintendo still be able to be so cocky? Will this old tech with some extras slapped on really dominate the sleek, sexy PSP once its out in the bigger markets? I have pretty big doubts. Sony isn\'t Sega or Atari, Sony has a lot more clout than Nintendo. And if Nintendo finds this out too late and tries to play catch up with a GBA2, what will that do if not weaken their market share by splitting it? Lets just say I think Nintendo\'s about to have deja vu with what happened in the console market last gen.

I won\'t mind being wrong of course, but I\'m very cynical on the matter these days.

DS DS LOL...

Sorry I have been spending to much time on the penny arcade forums.

anyhoo i will be importing one after Xmas as me old cash funds will be looking be tter after the festive season.


Then Buy a UK version on for the Wife.... then its 2 player Animal Crossing for the both of us .

oh and i could alsways frag her on Metroid prime hunters & send her cartoon wangs via Pictochat .

[GmanJoe]

I have three DS\'s. One for my wife and the other two is for selling just before Christmas to desperate parents.

Originally posted by EThuggV3
Yes, \'tis. Sadly, I\'ve become very disallusioned with Nintendo.  The PSP is just... it. I mean, it opened my eyes: this is where handhelds should be at (powerwise), and all Nintendo can do is keep dragging its feet, telling me (and all of us) that we don\'t \'want\' to just keep getting better graphics. Well, I as a matter of fact do. I don\'t want to play my games with an electronic pen. I don\'t want a second screen for maps and feeling up my game system. I want the best damn graphics money can buy. I want analog control. I\'m kinda disappointed in PSP\'s nub, but its still a bigger step in the right direction than DS. Their (Nintendo\'s) comments regarding power/graphics and Revolution reflect the same thinking, worrying me about that too. They should be asking, not telling us what we want. This attitude worked for NES. It even helped SNES catch up and dominate in the end (arguably). But it hasn\'t worked this gen, nor last in the console realm, and that doesn\'t, from what they\'ve been saying publicly, seem to be getting through to them. They have the same attitude with handhelds, and fortunately they\'ve had weak competition until now (I liked GG and Lynx, but they were never a threat). When PSP was announced, when it was unveiled, Nintendo should have taken a step back, and reevaluated DS. Instead they have turned it into the much touted \'3rd pillar\', and say a new real GB is on the horizon still. Either that\'s true, and DS will remain a side project, in which case they are dividing their market up (bad idea), or it\'s BS, and DS is their real new GB, and they are content to sit back with old tech and assume it will keep selling. DS has done well so far, but the new handhelds are both very young. This time next year, 2 years from now, 5 years from now, will Nintendo still be able to be so cocky? Will this old tech with some extras slapped on really dominate the sleek, sexy PSP once its out in the bigger markets? I have pretty big doubts. Sony isn\'t Sega or Atari, Sony has a lot more clout than Nintendo. And if Nintendo finds this out too late and tries to play catch up with a GBA2, what will that do if not weaken their market share by splitting it? Lets just say I think Nintendo\'s about to have deja vu with what happened in the console market last gen.

I won\'t mind being wrong of course, but I\'m very cynical on the matter these days.

like the content, hate the form.  Use paragraphs, please.

Their (Nintendo\'s) comments regarding power/graphics and Revolution reflect the same thinking, worrying me about that too.

I think alot of people are taking what Iwata said out of context.  If graphics weren\'t important then we wouldn\'t be seeing a successor to the Gamecube.  ATi is working on the Revolution gpu, it will probably be a variant of their upcoming R5xx chips and that\'s nothing to scoff at.  I say wait and see what Nintendo has in store.

This was brought up in another forum and I just couldn\'t help but ask what indicates that Nintendo is behind the technology curve?  The games they produce are certainly no slouches, and the gamecube itself has kept up with the Xbox and PS2 offerings.  The DS might display N64 graphics but on a handheld that seems to be adequate seeing as how it\'s in demand.

Sorry about the unbroken rant, I hadn\'t realized how long it was until I\'d posted, and by then I was too lazy to fix it.

I don\'t \'know\' Revoilution will be behind, tech wise, but I\'m just saying that his comments have me concerned that that\'ll be the case. We\'ll see. I\'d love to be completely wrong and find myself in line fall \'06 buying Revolution with Mario 256.

Is.. is there any one-word term for "graphics whore"? I can\'t find one in the dictionary.