Make me want a DS

[bignds]

ok the DS is around 2 weeks away from release, and im seriously considering buying the ds or the psp.
Please can you lot please tell me all the major titles in work for the DS and any other reason why i should buy this,
thanks

[Skyline]

Tell ya what, here's a list of all the games. Game_Hydra posted this in another thread so i don't want to take the credit for it.

1 -- Action Game From D3 (D3 Interactive)
2 -- Action Game From Epoch (Epoch Games)
3 -- Advance Wars DS (Nintendo)
4 -- Air Assualt (Summitsoft)
5 -- Age Of Empires
6 -- Animal Crossing DS (Nintendo)
7 -- Animetic RPG (Animetic)
8 -- Another Code (Nintendo)
9 -- Ashpault : Urban GT (Ubi Soft)
10 -- Baten Kaitos DS (Namco)
11 -- Botkai (Konami)
12 -- Bomberman DS (Hudson)
13 -- Brain Twisting Game -- Cool Joker Setline (Aruze)
14 -- Bubble Bobble Revolution (Taito)
15 -- Bust a' Move Revolution (Taito)
16 -- Caduceus (Atlus)
17 -- Castlevania (Konami)
18 -- Carving (Nintendo)
19 -- Cerulean Dreams (Mezco)
20 -- Chibi Island DS (Nintendo)
21 -- Choro Q DS (Summitsoft)
22 -- Chuu-Shi Rally (Spike)
23 -- Dark Reflections (Mezco)
24 -- Deep Labyrinith (Interactive Brains)
25 -- Desert Quad Fury 2 (Majesco)
26 -- Detective KubiKawa (Majesco)
27 -- Devilish (TBA)
28 -- Dino Dini's Soccer (DC studios)
29 -- Disney Pixars : The Incredibles 2
30 -- Doubutsu Shima no Chobigurumi 3 (Rocket Company)
31 -- Dragonball Z (Bandai)
32 -- Dragon Booster (Konami)
33 -- Dragon Quest Monsters (Square Enix)
34 -- Dragon Warrior : Slime Mori Mori (Square Enix)
35 -- Dynasty Warriors DS (Koei)
36 -- Egg Monster Hero (Square Enix)
37 -- Eye Shield 21 (Nintendo)
38 -- Far East Of Eden (Hudson Soft)
39 -- Feel The Magic : XX/XY (Sega)
40 -- Final Fantasy III (Square Enix)
41 -- Final Fantasy : Crystal Cronicles (Square Enix)
42 -- Frogger Helmet Havoc (Konami)
43 -- Fushigi No Dungeon
44 -- Gombare Goemon (Konami)
45 -- Goldeneye (Electronic Arts)
46 -- GT - D Racing (MTO)
47 -- Guru Guru Nage-to (BeeWorks)
48 -- Gyakuten Saiban (Capcom)
49 -- Harvest Moon DS (Marvelous/Rising Star)
50 -- Icarus 2 (Rising Star)
51 -- Jam With The Band (Nintendo)
52 -- Jaws (Majesco)
53 -- Jinsei Game (Atlus)
54 -- Fist Of The North Star (Summitsoft)
55 -- Jump Superstars!! (Nintendo/Shonen Jump)
56 -- Kaido Racing Battle (Genki)
57 -- Legend Of The River King (Konami)
58 -- Legend Of Zelda : Four Swords DS (Nintendo)
59 -- Living High, Killing Low (Genki)
60 -- Londonian Gothics (Mega Cyber)
61 -- Lunar (Marvelous)
62 -- Madagascar (Activision)
63 -- Madden NFL 2005 (Electronic Arts)
64 -- Magical Vacation 3 (Nintendo)
65 -- Mahjong Tai-Kai (Koei)
66 -- Mana Sequel (Square Enix)
67 -- Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
68 -- Megaman Collection : X Series (Capcom)
69 -- Megaman : Battle Network DS (Capcom)
70 -- Meikyuu (aruze)
71 -- Meteos (Bandai)
72 -- Metroid Prime Hunters (Nintendo)
73 -- Metroid Prime Hunters : First Hunt (Nintendo)
74 -- Mikke! (AKI)
75 -- Mina no Mahjong (MTO)
76 -- Mobile Suit : Gundum Seed (Bandai)
77 -- Monster Farm : Jamboree (Tecmo)
78 -- Monster Summoner DS (Aruze)
79 -- Moonlight Fables (Majesco)
80 -- Mr.Driller : Drill Spirits (Namco)
81 -- Mysterious Jungle (Chunsoft)
82 -- Mysterious Dungeon (Chunsoft)
83 -- Nanostray (Majesco)
84 -- Naruto 3 (Tomy)
85 -- Need For Speed Underground 2 : Rivals (Electronic Arts)
86 -- New Board Game (Atlus)
87 -- New Super Mario Brothers (Nintendo)
88 -- One Peice (Bandai)
89 -- #Lineus (Nintendo)
90 -- Organizer Plus! (Summitsoft)
91 -- Pac N' Roll (Namco)
92 -- Pac Pix (Namco)
93 -- Pictochat (Nintendo)
94 -- Pixars Cars (THQ)
95 -- Ping Pals (THQ)
96 -- Pokemon Dash! (Nintendo)
97 -- Pokemon Pearl (Nintendo)
98 -- Pokemon Diamond (Nintendo)
99 -- Polarium (Nintendo)
100 -- Powerful Pro Baseball (Konami)
101 -- Prince Of Tennis (Konami)
102 -- Project DA (Neopong)
103 -- Puppy Times (Nintendo)
104 -- Puyo Pop Fever (Sega)
105 -- Rakugaki Tengoku (Taito)
106 -- Rayman DS (Ubi Soft)
107 -- Rekishi Simulation (KOEI)
108 -- Retro Atari Classics (Atari)
109 -- Ridge Racer DS (Namco)
110 -- Robots (Activision)
111 -- RPG from Gamearts (Gamearts)
112 -- RPG from Namco
113 -- Shin Megami Tensei DS (Atlus)
114 -- Shrek 3 (Activision)
115 -- Shrek : Super Slam (Activision)
116 -- Simulation Sunrise (Sunrise Studios)
117 -- Snowboard Kids (Atlus)
118 -- Sonic DS (Sega)
119 -- Soul Calibur (Namco)
120 -- Space Invaders Revolution (Taito)
121 -- Space Xploration Puzzle (Taito)
122 -- Spectral Force (Idea Factory)
123 -- Spiderman 2 DS (Activision)
124 -- Spongebob Square Pants (THQ)
125 -- Sports (Hudson)
126 -- Sprung! (Ubi Soft)
127 -- Starwars : Revenge Of The Sith (Ubi Soft)
128 -- Submerine's (Nintendo)
129 -- Super Mario 64 DS(Nintendo)
130 -- Super Princess Peach (Nintendo)
131 -- Super Robot Wars DS (TBA)
132 -- Lost In Blue# (Konami)
133 -- Table Hockey (Nintendo)
134 -- Tak 3 (THQ)
135 -- Team Ninja DS [Working Title] (Tecmo)
136 -- Tendo Dakuta (Konami)
137 -- Tetris (THQ)
138 -- The Game Of Life (Bandai)
139 -- Texas Hold Em (Majesco)
140 -- The Masquerade Lullaby (Genki)
141 -- The Urbz : Sims In The City (Electronic Arts)
142 -- Tiger Woods : PGA Tour 2005 (Electronic Arts)
143 -- Touch! Kirby's Magic Paint Brush (Nintendo)
144 -- Tounou Ni Aseka Game Series Vol. 1: Cool 104 Joker & Setline (TBA)
145 -- Toy Heads World (TBA)
146 -- Trouballs DS (Sega)
147 -- Ultamite Brain Games (Cosmigo)
148 -- Ultamite Card Games (Cosmigo)
149 -- Urusei Yatsura (Marvelous)
150 -- Vandal Hearts (Konami)
151 -- Viewtiful Joe (Capcom)
152 -- Wario Ware : Touched (Nintendo)
153 -- Winning Eleven DS (Konami)
154 -- WinX (Konami)
155 -- World Championship Poker (Crave)
156 -- Xenosaga DS (Namco)
157 -- Yakuman DS (Nintendo)
158 -- Yoshi's Touch and Go (Nintendo)
159 -- Yu-Gi-Oh : Nighmare Troubador (Konami)
160 -- Zoids (tomy)
161 -- Zoids : Apoc (Tomy) -CUT-
162 -- Zoo Keeper (Ignition)
163 -- Zoo Tycoon (THQ)
164 -- *King Kong (Ubi Soft)
165 -- *Splinter Cell : Chaos Theory (Ubi Soft)
166 -- *RPG from Final Fantasy Creator (TBA)
167 -- *Metroid Pinball (Nintendo) - TENATIVE -

[Sepharite]

72 -- Metroid Prime Hunters (Nintendo)
73 -- Metroid Prime Hunters : First Hunt (Nintendo)

So there's going to be two different Metroids? Unless that's the demo version.

Btw, you don't need a reason to buy a DS! :D

[chuddy_2001uk]

Made by Nintendo. What more can i say? Oh yeeaaaahhh
Touch screen
Dual screen
Microphone
Built in Chat software
Backwards compatible with the GameBoy Advance games
Cheaper than PSP and PSP games
Online (coming soon)
Easy wireless multi-player sometimes only needing one card
ALL NINTENDO CHARACTERS MAKING THEIR APPEARENCE
Lots of battery (unlike PSP) e.g. 7-8 hours on DS
Screen won't get as scratched as PSP's becasue of clamb shell design

*Will add more :D*

[Sepharite]

ALL NINTENDO CHARACTERS MAKING THEIR APPEARENCE

I find that as a turn-off. They've been there for at least 20+ years! Why wouldn't they ever DIE! ;_;

[Euan]

Here's my reasons for getting the DS:

If you have a PS2, like I do, the PSP isn't much different in terms of games. Yes, it's on the move, I'll give you that one. BUT, what's the point in playing the PSP on your way home from the bus stop, getting in and then playing near identical games on your PS2? To me there doesn't seem much point.

I, for one, don't like car/racing games too much. This was one of the big factors for getting a DS. PSP is churning them out - Ridge Racers and Colin McRae Rally 2005 are release games in Britain and the most over-rated series, GTA, is churning out another thoughtless game which will probably contain swearing for no apparant reasons.

Btw - just to let you know, you shouldn't need to be "convinced". At the current time, if I was you, I wouldn't get one at all - you need to have a good think what you want. Do you want great Graphics? Or prefer Innovation and potentially amazing things in the future (which the touch screen will undoubtably bring).

If you have a PS2, like I do, the PSP isn't much different in terms of games. Yes, it's on the move, I'll give you that one. BUT, what's the point in playing the PSP on your way home from the bus stop, getting in and then playing near identical games on your PS2?

yea thats the main reason why im not getting it.

[17R3W]

Well also consider what you want to use it for.

If you intend this to be your primary system (that is, this one and only this one, with no current generation home system) and plan to use it mostly at home, (When I got my game boy, I didn't have a NES, or anything else until near the end of SNES life cycle) I would say PSP.

If you want a portable system to use in addition to a home system, as a portable system, then you don't want a PSP. It's to expsenive, it's not designed for use away from a power source for any prolonged time.

The DS can play GBA games so your likley be able to borrow a large selection from friends and pick up used on cheap.

Also, it your looking for a portable media center you don't want the PSP. With only 2 hours of battery life for movies, it's simply not praticle in this regards.

o yea plus you can't get fire emblem on the PSP :P

well thats a big reason for me at least...

Actually, the 2 Hours for movies only applies when everything is at max (minus the WiFi, of course). Max Brightness, Max Volume, etc. If you use it at average to low brightness, and with average volume, you can get away with 4-5 hours of video playback. Although, that may be shortened to 3-4 hours when playing a movie on UMD.

In my opinion, you should only buy the handheld in which you see suited towards your needs. If you prefer the more "new and innovative" style of games, then the DS is right for you. However, if those types of games don't appeal to you, and you want some more "home console experience", then the PSP should fit right within your gaming spectrum. Also figure in where you will play the handheld, what accessories are immediately mandatory (screen protectors, carrying cases, etc.), and what you want to do with the handheld.

You must factor in that if you are getting a PSP for media playback, that you must be prepared to shell out some money for some good storage. For music-only, the amount of storage shouldn't be too high. For movies or TV shows (etc.), then the amount of storage should be high. You may consider buying a Portable Media Player with a good-sized internal HD for a few hundred more.

The DS is all about the games, which saves you some money. Also factor in that some of the games will be lower priced than that of the PSP's games (except for the $39.99 priced games, which appear for both handhelds).

What it really comes down to is this: how much are you willing to spend, and how long you want to play the games. Or, if you have the money (which isn't the case with most people), get both. In my opinion, wait and see.