Should i buy a DS (prob a lite)

Cyrus

Just wondering should i buy a ds, sold my psp as the games just werent good enough, sure its an impressive machine but none of the games i tried immersed me, been looking at the ds, especially now the lite is out,

how have people found owning it, do u use your ds much and what games really stand out?

RichyX

I bought mine just after Xmas after hearing all the stories of how great it was.
Very happy with it.
Mario Kart DS is great fun in single player or online and Animal Crossing is stupidly addictive. Castlevania and the Rub Rabbits/Feel the Magic are well worth getting too.

Very happy with mine anyway, haven't talked to anyone who dislikes the DS yet.

1huge1

well what made me get it is the selection of games on it much better than psp
great choice of games
and there online service is very easy to use and more and more games are signing up for it

so far i have
super mario 64 DS
Star Wars Revenge of the Sith (class game but short)
Mario Kart DS
Advance Wars
Resident Evil DS

planning on getting metroid prime hunters next

Retr0gamer

Definitely. While my PSP is gathering dust my Ds is constantly in use. The simple reason being that there are a ridiculous amount of excellent games available for it and of course the excellent back catalogue of GBA games.

corblimey

Yes, but don't buy Animal Crossing:WW unless you fancy the thought of being a slave to a one-inch high character who enjoys nothing more than fishing for 3 hours a day. And catching butterflies and honeybees. And shaking trees to make money and furniture fall out of them. And mailing fruit to people in the hopes that they'll send you an orange. Addictive little b*st*rd.

I bought my DS because of the game selection. I was buying my nephew a PSP at the same time and side by side, the DS made more sense to me. I don't regret a single penny spent on it, although if I could go back, I'd use a screen protector, my screen is farked.

projectmayhem

i have a psp. i love my psp. it's sexy, sleek, has nice games, etc. my little brother got a DS. the games don't look as nice, and don't APPEAR to have any decent lifespan... but boy was i wrong when i started playing.

DS is fantastic. they should give a DS to junkies instead of methadone... it'd sort them out. brain training might even give them some inspiration to read

Inisin

Asides from the fact that in the first week of sales the DS lite anniliated all other competion combined (except for the ds)... and over all sales so far of the DS lite are more than the PSP and PS2 combined in japan.

The only real reason you should get a DS lite over a DS is New mario super bros. as apparenlyt only the DS lite can play it because of "it's bright screens!"

It's a distrubeing ripple in the force.

Anyway, the DS lite will take ages to get over here. Import may cost alot though. The release date MAY be late june. With Nintendo of Euro it's all guess though.

A good place to watch is http://www.noewatch.com/ a self styled watchdog of NOE (Nintendo Of Europ) release date and sometimes prices.

In some sort of opinion I have I vote for the DS due to playability. It has some really good games out for it, although a good few of them are delayed an enormously stupid amount of time. One of the core parts the PSP relied on (the UMD format) is dead and was dead months ago. The DS relies on the main gimmick of the touch screen with some publishers used to an extremly good degree. It's like watching the "if the iPod was Microsoft ad" The DS is simple, it does games, that's it. The PSP.... "I'll do everything! Movie player! internet brower!(withouth a keyboard) games player! and... eh.... Door stop! yeah I can be a door stop!" Really it was a good system. Sony killed it with it's stupid media formats and stamping out of the mod community.

Rew

I plan on gettinf a DS Lite to replace my existing DS. Metroid Prime Hunters rocks

Irish Halo

Inisin wrote:

The only real reason you should get a DS lite over a DS is New mario super bros. as apparently only the DS lite can play it because of "it's bright screens!"

Inisin

http://www.dsfanboy.com/2006/04/01/new-super-mario-bros-only-compatible-with-ds-lite/

New Super Mario Bros. will only be compatible with the DS Lite and will not work with the original machine. Nintendo's name-taking, posterior-assaulting marketing guru, Reggie Fills-Aimes, explained that players would be able to see why this decision was made.

"Players won't be able to see. On the original DS, I mean. The screens on the old system are simply much too dark, making the new Mushroom Kingdom almost impossible to navigate."

Ah bollocks. I didn't even realise it was posted on april 1st.... nevermind

RE*AC*TOR

Inisin wrote:

http://www.dsfanboy.com/2006/04/01/new-super-mario-bros-only-compatible-with-ds-lite/



Ah bollocks. I didn't even realise it was posted on april 1st.... nevermind

You are a silly silly boy.... look at the date... most obvious.......ever!

smokingman

I've never been on the comute in the morning and evening times without my loverly little DS...my current fix is Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and it has me hooked....yeah it's basically a text adventure and could be done on a gameboy advance (if you take away the cool touch screen bits) but you really have to use your noodle to figure things out and it's very satisfying when you do.

I'll always recommend the DS over the PSP only because I too sold my PSP in disgust and before the second hand market got flooded with them.

It's not about the brand, it's about the games.

hairball

yup sold my psp..nice machine technically, boring as hell in reality...back to nintendo for me:)...i think i'll wait for the lite tho

steviec

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time is the only good game I've played on my DS. I've had it a year and a half now(since Jap launch) and its spent most of that time gathering dust. There are other games, specifically Advance Wars and Animal Crossing, that I like but have decided against spending money on. I am looking forward to the new mario game though. Oh and I wouldn't touch a regular DS if you can get a Lite. Their ridiculously oversized for a portable. I'd have sold my DS by now if I wasn't a completist.

If it didn't have wi-fi, my PSP would be gathering dust too. But with it, GTA: LCS is one of the best games I have on any system. Thinking about getting Exit soon, but it'd mean upgrading to 2.6 so I'm hesitant.

Retr0gamer

You owe it to yourself to play Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.

mcgarnicle

I have both PSP and DS and, to be honest, I play neither of them. The PSP has some good games, my favs are Burnout and GTA but even these wear pretty thin after about 2 weeks. The DS hasn't got many games about right now that I am interested in but that said I have played a few games to bits. Mario 64 and Advance Wars are my two personal favourites and Mario and Luigi is great too. However unlike many here there are some games that are generally considered great that I got and consider rubbish, Castlevania, Sonic Rush and Kirby Canvas Curse are three examples. Mario Kart DS is okay, not great, deffinately inferior to Double Dash.

Retr0gamer

mcgarnicle wrote:

However unlike many here there are some games that are generally considered great that I got and consider rubbish, Castlevania, Sonic Rush and Kirby Canvas Curse are three examples.

Blasphemy! Thrice blasphemy!

Attol

Oh my God! Sonic Rush is really good. It may get a bit too hectic occasionally but it's still a good game once you get the hang of it. My favourite part of it is how the levels haven't strayed from the familiar original styles that came with the first couple of games. None of this 3D level crap that they tried for a bit (although I did like Sonic Heroes). Anyone who had a Mega Drive when they were ickle would appreciate this too I'd say.

The PSP games were so bad. I honestly don't think there is any comparison between the DS and PSP. It would appear to me that the PSP was designed solely for use as a fashion accessory. Sure , it has loads of features but it's meant to be a console. A DS was designed with gamers in mind. The PSP's offering of titles is still pretty meagre, with only Lemmings having caught my eye.

Anyway, back on topic. So worth getting a DS, but as has been said wait for the Lite or import it if you get a chance. My thumbs cramp up quite badly when playing Mario Kart for long periods. There are so many good games out for the DS and so many still to be released that I'd say there is no reason not to get one as it will stay popular for years. Also I've heard rumours of compatibility with the Rev.

Retr0gamer

Sonic rush is the best Sonic game for the in the last ten years. Thank god it's back to it's old glory days. The GBA games were plain dull.

mcgarnicle

Retr0gamer wrote:

Sonic rush is the best Sonic game for the in the last ten years. Thank god it's back to it's old glory days. The GBA games were plain dull.

That's not much of an achievement though

Retr0gamer

Well lets just say that it's as good as sonic & knuckles and almost as good as Sonic 2.