Why is DS so awesome? It’s games. That’s why Apple will have a hard time overtaking Nintendo. Writes MSNBC’s Winda Benedetti:
This has been a week, and really more like an entire month, that has delivered me (and a great many others) unto gaming heaven. That is, this week saw the launch of both “Scribblenauts” and “Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story” ’ two staggeringly awesome games that have kept me with a DS clutched in my hands for far too many hours.
Great games. Definitely the reason the DS is the unsung hero this generation. (Will, is your Inside Story review almost up?)
I tell you the other portable systems like iPhone & psp go can't even begin to compete with nintendo and their ds / dsi's . There are so many games I have played and still are playing.
I am a huge Apple fan and I love my iPhone, but for some reason I am just not much into gaming on it and I'm not sure why. In theory it should be great. Apple just doesn't get gaming and never has. I guess that is what it comes down to.
I think the real reason the DS is so successful has to be because it is truly the only system out of all the handhelds and consoles that not only has something for everybody, but a lot for everybody too.
It is definitely the games, not the hardware… Which makes you wonder, what if someday Nintendo and Apple fused together, and simply ported all the DS games into the iTouch, with better graphics and at a cheaper price?
I got both of these games this week and I must say they are both awesome! Makes me proud to ve a DS owner.
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if you don't get gaming on the iphone then you either don't have one or haven't tried. iphone and itouch are two different situations. If you own an iphone it's always with you. Always. iTouch – not so much.
There are now hundreds of great games on the iPhone, and thousands of mediocre games – but priced accordingly. tens of thousands are free, thousands are $.99 and almost all are $4.99 and below. DS games are overpriced now.
I recently picked up my DS for the first time in months to play the first Professor Layton – great game! Can't wait to lay the sequel. But it could have been better on the iphone by adding motion and multitouch. Meanwhile, many iPhone games could really use physical buttons.
When the iphone first came out I said it would NEVER make a great gaming platform. I thought the lack of buttons would make it impossible to ever compete, and that Apple would never let it succeed as a gaming platform. Dead wrong.