Spreading the word

[Shadow]

It's sad how little you see of the DS around where I live. Every store in this town have PSPs I mean not only the videogame stores but every single electronic store. Most seem to have heard about the PSP but when you meantion the DS you only get a "what's that?" as a reply. If you then go on as... Nintendo DS... you get a oh.. Game Boy? . no.. It's quite interesting, the marketing is quite strong for the PSP. Before I bought my DS I wanted to buy a PSP for allot of times but I don't even know why?. Anyway, I've taken upon myself to speard the word around to people about the DS My parents up on their farm knows what it is now. They loved my Nintendog, Rex. My older brother's comments were "So this is what you play these days" Then he started playing Metos "It's so small I can't see anything, oh it's so fast". I reply, you think that's fast? *pushes in the L* He didn't last very long. He also played Mario 64 for the first time on the DS he was in chock when he had to run diagonally with the d-pad and he gave up. Yet when we brought up the topic if he should celebrate chrismas this year he said "maybe, I guess I can run off somewhere and borrow your DS". And for the record, my brother don't celebrate chrismas. One of my friends also got the chance to try the DS out, couldn't get him away from Mario after that.. oh well. I think what I'm trying to say with this post is just that the DS to me was and is a big improvment in matters of portable gaming. And it deservs to be better known. So, do like me. Spread the word.

[ShadowMarth]

Yeah, after a while all of us begin that. We must, considering how little non-informed people think of it in comparison to the PSP. Advance Wars, Mario Kart, and suprisingly, even Meteos have been my big selling points.

[Pilot_51]

Sort of the same thing happens to me, although here it's about 50% of my friends heard about the DS. Almost every time I mention DS to an average person, "PSP" jumps in within a few seconds. So yeah, PSP clearly has the popularity, given the huge success of PlayStation 2, and people just don't pay attention to Nintendo anymore because they know the focus of Nintendo isn't on what they tend to care about most, which is graphics.
I've been doing my part, even though I'm not very social in real life, anyone I get to know soon hears about DS from me and most of my online friends that I occasionally talk to eventually hears about it.

[theONE]

Originally Posted by ShadowMarth03

Yeah, after a while all of us begin that. We must, considering how little non-informed people think of it in comparison to the PSP. Advance Wars, Mario Kart, and suprisingly, even Meteos have been my big selling points.

stop forgeting castlevania! XD

[ダニエルDan--_--©]

O... me and my bro spread the word about "how the DS owns all..."

... We just hang around Gamestop yelling at the manager about the DS rules the psp.. (he loves the psp) =_=

and did you hear that the PSP is going to link with the PS2 now +_+ they are just not sure what there going to do with that piece of crap.. err i mean piece of hardware...

Originally Posted by Dan^_^

and did you hear that the PSP is going to link with the PS2 now +_+ they are just not sure what there going to do with that piece of crap.. err i mean piece of hardware...

more proof that teh sony people are just a bunch of posers

[Shadow]

Another friend today. He was in town so I said he'd have to come here and try out my DS and so he did. He wasn't going to stay more then just a while, one hour goes by and he gets a phone call that he has to go then to get picked up for a ride home. He convinces them to pick him up later. Another hours goes by... he should be at meetup point now "Just one more try he says" and again. "I don't like games" he keeps saying but he keeps playing. The game was Ultimate Spider-Man. Another one has seen the light of DS ;)

[theONE]

i have a friend who was literally about to buy a PSP next wekk... then he played my mario kart.. now he wants a DS just for that...

[Neumie]

When in doubt as to what to show ure friends.....show em mario kart ^^

[ShadowMarth]

Actually, I showed one of my best friends who was already DS-friendly (though he has yet to get one, I'm helping him put together his new PC from scratch... He's scavenging his school computer pile) Mario Kart, and he certainly liked it, but didn't think too highly of it since it was pretty much plain old Mario Kart at first glance. I was entirely suprised when ten minutes later I couldn't get him to put Meteos down. Who knew? Well, by the end of the trip he was addicted to both... He's still not going to get a DS anytime soon though, because of monetary reasons.