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"So Dringo? What sort of handheld action turns you on?"

The DS is naff?
Now, Dringo saying something from Nintendo is "naff" is a rarity intself but, the DS?

There's one argument I can think of against handheld games.
That after playing home console standard, it's hard to step down, especially when the prices aren't quite the same step down.

But when you say "Roll on GBA2.", it sort of shows that handhelds aren't the issue...


So what's the problem with the DS?
I notice it has no analogue stick, but everyone keeps saying that the touch screen simulation more or less works as well, so you'd barely notice, including you.

Heck, you want the revolution controller to be a touchscreen!

So is it the DS?
What's wrong with it?
What doesn't it have that the GBA2 will?


Or maybe it's not the DS.
Maybe the games aren't really getting you excited.
The launch games do generally seem a bit basic, being either a remake or a short game, but that was the case with the Gamecube for AGES, and I never heard one complaint then?

So if it's the games bugging you, what's wrong with them, and what're you expecting on the GBA2 that's going to be so much better?



I think a certain someone has gotten into a certain mood and has decided to become Mr Contraversial! You're just winding people up, aren't you! ;-P

Dringo thinks the DS is a wonderful system, I think it has been cunningly developed and marketed to compete with the PSP and Dringo thinks, by the end of the year, the system will sell through the roof.

Dringo does think though that the software at the moment does not back up what a truly wonderful system this could be. And the software that does look REALLY appealing seems far off... in fact Christmas time we might start seeing those deep and innovative games that'll give the DS that edge.

well it hasn't been launched over here yet.

From what I've gathered, Dringo loves the actual DS, just hates the way it has been launched by Ninty.

gerrid wrote:
> Dringo the famous oscillating poster.

Gerrid, the famous poster that never listens.

Dringo the famous oscillating poster.

The DS has an amazing mass market appeal. Sure the DS looks stylish but a duel screen touch screen system actually looks really interesting.

I know I am interested.

Cao wrote:
> The control system seems too complicated

erm, its a lot LESS complicated. You just draw what you want to happen on the screen. I've given people who never play games a go on the mini games on Mario DS and they don't even need to be told what to do, they just get into it straight away. You wouldn't get that with any PSP game, or any game that uses traditional controls.

gerrid wrote:
> You haven't played all the launch games though, so you don't know that
> none of them are great.

I do.

God told me.

Cao wrote:
>
> And I also feel Mario Kart will fail spectacularly with a touch
> screen.

Why? You just have the circuit map on it or use the whole thing for a rear view mirror.

The control system seems too complicated and strenuous to appeal to the majority over the clear-as-day-how-to-work PSP.

And I also feel Mario Kart will fail spectacularly with a touch screen.