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Why does the DS sell so well?
scaramoosh
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THe thing is a peice of ****.
It looks horrid
THe touch screen is nothing but a gimmick
THe sound is horrible
Graphics are horrible
Games are all touch screen gimmicks or just really really bad
Nintendo don't produce good games anymore that we havn't seen 20 times b4
blah blah blah.
I really don't understand why people buy them
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The PSP had to many hardware issues, so the competition was weak in sales.
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Let's say you are a 68 year old lady with two grandchildren who love these video games.
What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of video games? NINTENDO!
They made a name for themselves so by default, Grandma will go and buy only what she knows for her grandchildren.
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Pretty much true.
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The games are pretty cool because they are retro and the fact that they are coming out with FF3 is pretty big as well.
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This is the 2nd post youve made in about a week where you bitch about the DS. Its afordable, massive library of games, has a genre of games that cant be found ANYWHERE else (im talking about the touchpad games, such as Brain Age, Kirbys Canvas Curse, and Lost Magic just to name 3).
95% of the world buys handelds to play games, aka gameboys. 4.5% buys them for music, aka iPods, and 0.5% buys them to watch movies, aka PSP. Go play..err look at, your PSP.
The numbers mentioned above are not fact, just a transtlation to reality, so dont take them as fact.
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I used one for a couple hours and got a bad case of 'insta-carpatunelzzz'
The thing is so uncomfortable... to hold, to play... I'm pretty thin but my thumb blocks out the whole screen. When I use the stylus the DS transforms from a Handheld... to a laptop... because holding it with one hand while pressin the buttons and using the stylus just hurts my hand, my head, my eyes, and my ego.. lol
I must admit I would really like to try BrainAge and that other game Odama? i think it is... but i just can't bring myself to BUY carpa-tunelzz. For the most part i was only watching one of the screens anyways....
All that being said... I understand that Nintendo has the NAMe so all they really need is 5-6 AWesome games... and that will carry their system... The rest of their games dont even have to be good because every person who buys a DS buys those 5-6 games and then gets extras down the line.
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because of super mario, the same super mario game that was made for super nintendo.
at least that is for me, but that game being made on the DS was disappointing, because i realy hate any hand held game console, because they're so not easy to use.
wait... the touchscreen is a gimmick? lol
The touchscreen is a great and innoventive new way of controlling instead of using a ridiculous lousy pseudo analog crap controller.
UMD is a gimmick. MP3 Player is a gimmick. Online Browsing is a gimmick. The analog is pure crapness.
Ever tried Metriod on DS? Then you'll see how superior the console design is to psp.
Nevertheless, I don't play on handheld.
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And Super Mario DS!
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But, they have a lot of popular hits....fancy graphics and your moving robot cars are non-sense when you have a DS.
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The fact is that PSP was just as much a gimmick as the touch pad although wait... Nintendo actually has implementation of their gimmick in reasonable ways...
As was mentioned... UMD? Yes, let's make a "Universal Media Disc" therefore implying that we are trying to create a new crappy "universal" medium that only "we" have the patent to, therefore making it not so "universal" after all
Then let's have online browsing... but wait, our screen is so small that you even have to scroll to the side on google in order to get to the input box. Oh wait, don't forget that you don't have any touch screen, so inputting characters is even more annoying than typing on a cellphone. Then, let's not mention that when we release the system, let's not have encryption bypass programmed into the firmware, so most people can't even use the internet until they take down their encryption in order to get the firmware updates. (Yes, I have had to do this firsthand because my girlfriends mom got one and their stupid firmware didn't support any encryption)
So, let's see here, that's how hard it is to get the PSP online... let's see the Nintendo DS.
With the nintendo DS you have 1 of 2 ways. Firstly, you have the standard 802.11 router, which it can simply link into NO PROBLEMS. I sat down, entered my encryption key, and went. Second, if you don't have one (which a lot of people don't) then sell a nice little USB stick that creates one uniquely for the Nintendo DS. It's amazing how much they think of their customers isn't it?
Next Gimmick: the touch pad.
I'm sorry that you find it to be such a gimmick, but it's much more than that. Why does something innovative have to be a gimmick? Why can't someone want to try to implement something new for once instead of just making an overpowered computer with nothing interesting to it *cough* PS3 *cough*
Next you're going to tell me that the Wii controller is a gimmick
Honestly, before you make such uneducated posts, pick up the system. The stylus is put to amazing uses (such a Metroid Prime: Hunters, Yoshi Touch & Go, Nintendogs, Meteos) and yet the gimmicky features like UMD really have no use... I mean, who wants to pay MORE for a UMD movie than a DVD? That's totally illogical
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Thats just what i know don't get me wrong. I don't have any handheld systems besides my very old gameboy from like 8 years ago or something.
But yeah, is the DS Lite some kind of better version?
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Well me and my friend bought a DS between us and I have to say, biggest waste of money. They are no way as good as people seem to think they are, we never learn that if we don't witness the games first hand, then there's a 50% chance they are a piece of crap.
Yes, I recomend Castlevania : Dawn of Sorrow. I just beat it finally 2 nights ago, great game. There is alot of customization you can do to your characters combat ability.
"There's no star system Slave I can't reach, and there's no planet I can't find. There's nowhere in the Galaxy for you to run. Might as well give up now."
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Yes, I recomend Castlevania : Dawn of Sorrow. I just beat it finally 2 nights ago, great game. There is alot of customization you can do to your characters combat ability.
Yeah Castlevania in the DS is probably the 2nd best just after Symphonie of night, very good game, but there is more good games, Lost Magic is pretty unique, Metroid, Mario 64 DS, Under the knife, Advanced Wars DS, Brain Training, and others!
I think its pretty cool. all the previous handhelds have always been just miniversions of consoles with worse graphics. Nintendo DS is finally something NEW! PSP is just a playstation 2 with some extra features slapped on it.
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Just because the typical handheld console is considered a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" concept, that doesn't mean we can't make giant leaps with innovation. I love what Nintendo is doing with the Wii and DS, no matter if it's going to be the next big thing, or a giant flop. The fact that it's something new and something completely fresh means it has unforeseeable potential.
Microsoft and Sony can keep doing what they're doing, trying to get better performance, better graphics, better physics, coupled with some [real] gimmicks like MP3 player, storage, webcam... but in the end, if they're not revolutionizing the way we play games and the games themselves, then they're just out to make a faster horse.
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That and the games are cheap the systems cheap, and if you enjoy playing some casual games, Its really really fun. I really enjoy mine, and my girlfriend is addicted to hers.
after 6 or so years, I had to change it a little...