Nintendo said the DS wasnt the new Gameboy,

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

Such a slogan would hold more weight had they not banned the booth babes from E3.

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see i thought so too, but why the hell was g4 always showing them this year?

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

It's not, though.

They've been working on a GBA2 for quite a while.

If the DS failed they would have already shown it, I am positive of this.

That said, why do you care, all itll have is the usual franchises + licensed junk.

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I just read an interview where a big N dude said they might not release another Game Boy for a long time because the DS is doing so well. Eh Bacon posted part of it.

The Game BOY is now a Game MAN.

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Originally Posted by PBMax

I'm amazed some you still use the word gimmick when describing the DS. Have you actually played it? Have you taken a look at the library?

It's the best handheld ever made and the touchpad is soley responsible for some of the most creative games in ages.

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What the fuck are you smoking? It is clearly a gimmick that is forced into many games where it adds nothing. Castlevania anyone?

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Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne

see i thought so too, but why the hell was g4 always showing them this year?

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Re-read the previous page. This was answered.

Iga being a retard has nothing to do with the quality of the DS.

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Originally Posted by sethsez

Iga being a retard has nothing to do with the quality of the DS.

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No, the fact there isn't a single great game that needs that stupid screen does though. Most of the games where the screen works reasonably well (Advance Wars, Phoenix Wright) also work just as well with the d-pad.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

What the fuck are you smoking? It is clearly a gimmick that is forced into many games where it adds nothing. Castlevania anyone?

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This wouldn't be a problem if games that didn't require it didn't use it, plain and simple. Using d-pad, buttons AND the touch screen is too much in most games.

Still, though, to write the whole thing off as a gimmick is fucking stupid. Trying to do games like Kirby on something else just wouldn't be possible. Problem is, we need more games that can only be done on it, and less that could be done on any console without annoying touch features. Maybe if they had made this the Game Boy successor and didn't push the touch screen so hard as the #1 method of input, we wouldn't have had to worry about that.

I doubt it, though.

Trauma Center is pretty cool. No way you could do that with a D-Pad.

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Originally Posted by sethsez

Iga being a retard has nothing to do with the quality of the DS.

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Amazing how I used to consider him to be the guy that revitalized Castlevania. Now he's the guy ruining it.

As far as I'm concerned, the DS is just another evolution of the Gameboy line.

Sure it's N64-ear low tech, but it has the games I want to play, and that's all that matters.