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- MysticX, on 10/12/2007, -25/+57DS Lite OWNS PSP!
- breakneckridge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23I wonder how many are new users and how many are upgrading from the older DS.
- mrsark, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22@frank.e.barrett
its called brain training in japan..... - dallen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I plan on asking my wife for a DSLite for my birthday and passing my original down to her so she'll quit swiping it.
- tobiasproject, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14i love my new tiny macbook---uh. i mean ds lite
- MatttK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Yeah, my brother bought a Lite and gave his old one to his girlfriend. My roommate did the same thing.
- knid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11New user here.
Bought 2, one for me, one for the wife.
She's LOVING NSMB! And is cursing me for getting her addicted to it :)
I'm surprised at how much I like Brain Age. I've never tried the Suduko before but I am like a crack addict with it on the DSLite. - WinterSolstice, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15Sweet! I bought mine yesterday (with Metroid and Super Mario 64).
DSLinux here I come!
-WS - mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10You can trade it in for 50-70$ credit in ebgames so you can get a new one.
- rapptech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9At least one new user here. NSMB and Meteos are pretty fun.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14oGMo: "I have two PSPs, and blah blah blah...."
Not a DS/PSP/Nintendo/Sony thread goes by that you don't post your crap; People keep digging you down because we're tired of hearing your *****.
The numbers speak for themselves. People everywhere love this handheld. Nobody cares what one fanboy thinks. - kwazyJAS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I've had a PSP since the day it came out and have been using it just about every day since. Just the other day I decided to get a DS Lite and I have noticed they are actually very different. First of all I don't think the DS Lite is better than the PSP and the PSP is not better than the DS Lite. The DS Lite is more of a gaming system and thats all you get for your $130. The $200 PSP on the other hand can play games, browse the web, play music, view photos, play videos and more... if you hack it. I think I'm going to be playing more games on my DS Lite because it has some really fun games (I love mario kart online) and less games on my PSP, but I will still use my psp for everything else the DS doesnt do.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Bought mine the day it came out. I had since packed up my PSP, and all of the two games I had for it (Lumines and Wipeout, the only games really worth owning), and traded that ***** in. I am now a proud owner of a DS Lite, NSMB, Super Mario 64 DS, and Mario & Luigi. Can you tell I'm a Mario fan?
I've been playing the thing non-stop. I swear I'm going to get fired for playing it at work. One of the best system purchases I have ever made, next to the SNES. - foofightrs777, on 10/12/2007, -9/+16After the line "I have two PSPs" you could have just replaced everything you wrote with
"/cue fan-boy rant"
And I would hardly consider Animal crossing one of the best DS games. :/
I do think those PSP megaman games look rather cool though. - pixelbend, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Bought mine Sunday, but I saw an online coupon the other day where you can get Brain Age for free from Best Buy or Circuit City with the purchase of a DS Lite. So if you are in the market, it would be worth a Google.
Is it just me or is the DS the official "being stolen by the spouse/girlfriend who doesn't normaly play games" console? Mine is at home with my wife right now. - walterd93, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9That's definitely not all it has to offer! There are hundreds of games for the ds, and all of the first-party games are excellent(which account for 1/3 or something).
- Slayback, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Yes, there is DSlinux. You will need some sort of flash cart or media adapter (google "NDS M3" ) as well as a "nopass" device. The most common nopass is fairly new and goes under the name "MAX Media Launcher".
I'm getting it for my DS Lite just to watch movies and play Sam & Max via SCUMMVM DS.
If you're looking for additional information on running homebrew on the DS, check out this wiki: http://www.dslinux.org/wiki/Running_Homebrew
@MoeB - The DS will do everything you're talking about, with a full version of Opera coming soon. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I'm trying to come up with the money to trade my original in and buy a light, but I don't know when that will happen. The DS is a great system, and the DS Lite looks like it improves and removes many of the faults found in the first edition. By the way, any of you new DS users who do not own the following games need to re-allocate some money and pick these suckers up:
Mario Kart DS (awesome)
NSMB (duh)
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (pretty fun)
Tetris DS (for any Nintendo fan)
Brain Age
Sonic Rush
I was a bit disappointed by Metroid Hunters because of the boring bosses (in single player) and the crappy control scheme. Still, if you can deal with a two to three hour learning curve, it is a good buy.
- Nobi-Wan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I heard the new Mario has been selling one game every 4 seconds since its release. That's pretty cool
- Lososaurus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8And if Sony comes out w/ a PSP2(which is doubtful, it's been referred to as a PSP-fix), we'll see how many repeat sales that has, how loyal it's fans are.
- DanLikesBeer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I got so very tired of waiting for decent games to come out for PSP, I traded it in for a DSL this week. I hadn't picked up my PSP in months anyway. Now I use my DSL every day for those short bursts of gametime, without waiting for the UMD to spin up...
- andywirtanen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Very interesting. I thought it was mainly the tech community that was interested in the Lite, so I wasn't expecting this large of an impact.
I'm a new DS user. I decided to get the new Super Mario Bros. and Brain Age with my DS Lite. - doctornkul, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@mauriceb
Maybe it does, but I still want to play good games. - hamstereater, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6and well deserved too, congrats nintendo :)
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -4/+9And the UK. Well, "Professor Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain?" to give it it's full title. Guess that was a little complicated for the US :P
- INHUMANITY, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Awesome news! I bought one on it's release date along with Mario. It's a blast! It brings memories of my youth back!
The PSP is obviously more 'superior' in hardware performance, but the games are so bleh.
I just ordered Mario Kart DS and Tetris DS. I can't wait to try out the Wi-Fi stuff. - Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7why do you need to buy a bag for your DS lite? it fits perfectly in the PSP soft case nobody ever used! :)
- urbinsissy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Can't help but wonder if Brain Age's tripling of sales has anything to do with the Best Buy offer we got of getting it for free with DS Lite purchase.
- cphuntington97, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7This is my first mario game since NES. The new one seems much easier - I figured out why:
In the old games, when you turned off the power or pulled the cartridge out, you were done and started back at square one.
With the DS lite, you save your game, turn it off, and then come back to that same spot again later.
For me, this means more progress than I have ever experienced in mario. :P
(note.. I did have a game boy color, but no mario games for that... just pokemon... :P) - knightcrawler75, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I will tell you what is wrong with your statement. I would think that most people that bought the Lite are not people that owned the original. If anything the fact that it is a second addition of a gamesystem would hurt the sales. I am sure the PS2 thin addition didn't sell this well when it came out. And you may say the original DS sucked but it is hard to compare 2 systems when one is almost half the price of the other.
- Dabellah, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9It was modded up because people agree with it. Therefor if it is a fanboy statement let it stay if it gets modded up. It merely gives realization to how others obviously feel in regard to the statement, showing us just how many people can agree with it. Modding is determined by one's own jurisdiction, not some little rule that says if it doesn't follow your status quo then it has to be modded down to hell.
Get off the high horse - sergio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5oGMo: That's just your opinion. Daxter, Syphon Filter... they were meh on the PS, why would I want them on the PSP. But that's my opinion. I've been waiting for some titles to come out on the PSP to talk myself into getting one, but it's yet to happen. My coworker who has waited in line before store openings for new systems, including the PSP, is regretting the purchase at the moment and hopes the thing gets more titles soon. Right now, the DS is the place to be.
- dongiaconia, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Wow, I feel like such a sheep... I bought mine Sunday morning with Brain age and New Super Mario. It is my first handheld gaming system ever. I think I had to get it partly because how succesfully they made a great retro mario game. But damn, I don't remember mario ever being this hard!
- Omar12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Nice, i'm enjoying mine so far, bringing it to work every day to play at lunchtime playing Super Mario Bros. I'm not surprised that they did well on sales onits first week. Its a nice designed system. I'm looking forward the integration with Wii.
- gage006, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@dongiaconia
Funny how I kept saying how easy it was. Either way, the system and the game is great. Nintendo has really showed their strength lately. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I bought one. I love it! Now then, who's got links for me so I can read about everything it can do? Have they ported Linux to it yet? What's this device I hear about that lets you play movies/music on it? Any wi-fi tutorial links?
This place rocks. - satori3000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3With the ammount of DS stories posted here we should have a DS section of it's own
- mck9235, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5The DS Lite I bought Wednesday was my first, the first generation one was just to ugly for me. I've sold all but one of my games for the PSP (ridge racers!) and now only use it as a multimedia device.
Took me awhile to find a store with the Lite available, finally found it at Circuit City. Hopefully I'll go out and get SMB today. - KathyAlbrecht, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I work at target and we still have like 30 from our original shipment
- FishyJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Go, go, go! Spoken from a NTDOY share holder!
- mck9235, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@Loso:
It would have to be a "major" fix, otherwise getting a few GB of storage isn't worth another two or three hundred bucks. - mijokijo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5New user here, got the DSL when it came out. Got Brain Age with it, me likey. Playing GBA games on it is excellent as well. Pokemon never looked so vibrant!
P.S. brain age down to 33 from 45, yay! Must...keep...training... - augiedb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5New user here. That New Super Mario Bros. game was just too hard to ignore. Plus, I plan on getting the Wii in the fall, and if this works with that, even better.
Oddly enough, I'm too addicted to BRAIN AGE to bother with SUPER MARIO at the moment, and I'm already plotting when to buy MARIO KART to play over the 'net.
It's a beautiful system. I had never considered buying a portable system before this one, but it's all working out nicely. I think the touch screen is what sealed it for me. It's not just another button masher. - Lososaurus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Exactly why I'm waiting to get one, I'm tired of Apple-white. Waiting for Black or Navy Blue.
- Slayback, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@MoeB:
Wow, that's a little harsh...you sound vaguely like a bitter Sony fanboy trying to justify their purchase to me.
I never said the DS did it "better", but it will do all the things you mentioned. Now, if you want to talk about doing things better, I will take surfing the web with a stylus, hand writing recognition, and two screens any day over using a D-pad to enter text and navigate links on a single screen. - NV0U, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I bought the DS when it first came out. Was not really impressed with it, or the games, so I sold the whole thing last year, along with a PSP that I was not really impressed with either. I ended up kind of missing not having a handheld, so when the Lite was announced I decided to get one. The games are MUCHO better now. That damn MarioKart is really pissing me off too... I can't put it down. Brain Age totally rocks, and my dog, Scruffy, is bugging me for attention. Plus, that damn Animal Crossing is so stupid it is addicting. I figgered it was just some walk around and do things game, but it is much bigger than that. The thing really is neat. Now I have Metroid Prime Hunter and got my ass handed to me online. Guess I should read the instructions or something...
- ImpactedColon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@dallen:
That's exactly what happened to me. She won't let me sell the old one back--she's adopted it. - mijokijo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'm not trolling just because I said the word 'Pokemon'. I actually own and play pokemon games for the GBA. Pokemon rocks! Can't wait for Diamond and Pearl for the DS.
- jodamiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3New DS user (also my frist Nintendo portable, though I had all the N consoles besides N64). I was wanting one for a while, but when I first heard rumors of a redesign, I decided to wait. Once I heard about NSMB, I was sold. Picked up NSMB, Brain Age, and Metroid Prime: Hunters. I think I'll get Mario Kart before my road trip next week.
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