mycoplasma wrote:one thing nintendo needs to do is make DS games. Nintendo hasn't been able to outsell sony in the console market (yet), so they've been relying mostly on their portables ever since the days of the n64. Now the psp is out, and sony seems to be taking away the portable market, too. Once nintendo loses the portable market, it won't be long until they go bankrupt.
The reason that ds is failing so miserably has nothing to do with special features or graphics: it's the games (pretty ironic when you consider that they say that revolution will reclaim the console market because of its alledgedly incredible games, and not because of graphics).
Look at this list of upcoming games for ds. That's pathetic. 9 first party games are planned, out of a total of only 33. correct me if i'm wrong, but the only 1st party games we have so far are SM64, pokemon dash, wario ware, polarium, and yoshi t&g.
So, in conclusion, what nintendo needs to do is make ds games (and hire ben to make "Super Mario in love).
honsetly ive only seen one kid with a PSp so far, every one says they want it but they dont realy know why, or how they can aford it
The one thing I dislike about the DS isnt the games (I only have SM64, [only got my DS two days ago], and I think Warioware will be a lot of fun when I get money, along with several other titles), but its that theres no Home button. A Home button would make things loads easier, considering you need to restart to get back to the main menu, even from the system-options menu.
Another thing the DS could use is a button-setup-option for GBA games, using the A button with Super Mario World is almost painful.
And the GBE should be clamshell, but have an analog stick, with the layout of the DS, but with a widescreen on top, and speakers and controlls on bottom or something.
thats the only thing you dont like about the DS? thats pritty good, i have a ton of reasons why i dont like the PSP.
1. hype
2. sony hype
3. the most wiggery adds on the planet
4. UMD
5. all it is a pritty screen
6. the crap joystick
7. the games
8. UMD movies so far
9. UMD launcher *actualy thats a good thing

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10. the fact that sony will probly have a million fermware updates
11. no pokemon, but plays a vary crappy version of NFSu2