So, I bought a DS about a month ago, and I'm having a great time with it, and I feel good about it because some really awesome-looking games are currently on the horizon.
I think the machine really IS innovative, and I like using the touch screen to play QUALITY games instead of the homemade garbage you see on PDAs. The games may be a tad shallow now, but it looks like some deeper ones are on the way, and the possibilities of what you could do with the touch screen in a more complex game are exciting to me.
But in every thread I'm reading lately, people are saying that the DS is a "flop", and that it's just this big "gimmick", and people are pissed off because the touch screen doesn't allow them to play GTA SA or something.
My question to you all is: "What the hell were you expecting?" The system has games that utilize the touch screen and games that don't. It has games that use the microphone, and the dual-screen approach has been rather fruitful (it's utilized rather well for Yoshi Touch and Go, and it adds a lot to the cinemas on Warioware Touched).
Nintendo promised a machine with touch, use of the dual screens, and microphone interaction. We got all of that, and more is on the way. Is everybody afraid of a potentially new way to play games? Do you think the touch screen will rid the world of games like Castlevania forever? Or are you just defending your recent purchase of a PSP?
Ok, flame away!