Game Boy not so Advanced

[MrPopo]

I had to give up the Nintendo DS, as it was destroying my eyes - the SP has the same size screen, but at a lower resolution, so it doesn't cause me any problems.

Really? I'd be worried if playing on a DS was causing me eyestrain. And you might want to try the DSi, as the screen is noticably bigger.

I'm not going near the GB Micro and its postage-stamp screen. A truly wonderous bit of technology, evolved beyond the point of actually being usable.

It's actually not that bad. The bigger problem in my mind is that it's harder for man hands to hit the shoulder buttons quickly. So I save the Micro for games like Advance Wars while leaving my other GBA-playing devices for the action titles like Mega Man Zero.

[Whomper]

Really? I'd be worried if playing on a DS was causing me eyestrain. And you might want to try the DSi, as the screen is noticably bigger.

I was surprised, as I've never had that kind of reaction before, from monitor, phone or games console (or fine print book), but I was consistently getting painful eyes and lousy headaches. My vision isn't quite 20/20, but the only optometrist I've seen said it wasn't worth getting glasses for.

The DSi is definitely an option, but I don't know how much of a difference the screen size will really make.

Also, part of the lure of the GBA is one of the reasons I like retro platforms in general - I can pick up games and stick to them without getting distracted by new things being released. When the DSi is dead and buried, I'll pick one up

[NeoTechni]

It was nintendo's last good handheld.

What's wrong with the DS?

The lack of quality games for starters. I only recently got more games for it than I had for Virtual Boy.
And I'm not an a Nintendo-hater (well, I hate the DS/Wii) either,
http://club.ign.com/b/list/stats?&lid=1 ... =NeoTechni
Favored publisher: Nintendo
Favored developer: Nintendo
Estimated value of collection: $9,056

Nintendo has always rested on their laurels when it comes to, well everything.
And when I went from SNES quality handheld gaming to PS2 quality, it's hard to step back to something in between SNES and N64. As a game developer myself, I didn't fall for Nintendo's lies about how processing power only affects graphics. My first PSP game blew me away. I went from a system primarily filled with sidescrollers and overhead RPGs (GBA) to a fully 3D system with a huge widescreen, online multiplayer from day 1, CD quality music, multimedia capabilities that rivaled other portable media players and still do. Hell, if Sony didn't announce PSP was going to have Wifi I doubt DS would have (Sony announced it a year before the DS was announced)

When I was a kid, I designed my dream handheld. PSP was actually better than my design (mine used full sized CDs, where PSPs UMD is vastly superior for a portable). Where Nintendo always let me down (ie: GBC/GBA should have had more buttons, GBC/GBA should have had SuperGB compatibility, DS should have played GBC games, DSi shouldn't have sucked completely)

Look at the GBC, people complained it was too small of an upgrade over GB cause they only doubled the processing power. They did the same thing with the DSi and the Wii. I know lots of handheld gamers complained GBA was weaker than other handhelds. I didn't care about GBC/GBA being slight upgrades then though.

Plus, DS/Wii's success is actually dragging other/better systems down, by stealing developmental resources/games/etc.

And finally, as someone who collects Novelty controllers, I can assure you the novelty wears off when every single game on the system uses it. DS/Wii are like systems with only light gun games to me.

[MrPopo]

It was nintendo's last good handheld.

What's wrong with the DS?

The lack of quality games for starters. I only recently got more games for it than I had for Virtual Boy.

Are you honestly claiming there is a dearth of quality titles on the DS? Three Castlevanias, two Etrian Odysseys, the Dragon Quest remakes, Mega Man ZX and Advent, Pokemon DPP generation, two Trauma Centers, two Advance Wars, New Super Mario Bros, Mario & Luigi, Devil Survivor, WarioWare, Fire Emblem, Contra 4, and that's just the ones that are the favorites of my collection.

[NeoTechni]

Only 1 of those are games i like but such a small list would not redeem it. I own 49 ps3 games, 41 psp games, 11 ds games and 3 wii games

[MrPopo]

If there was only one game on the list of my 22 favorite (out of 56 that I own) then I'd be very interested to see what makes up your PSP collection. Hell, the DS is the system I have the most games for (discounting the PC which has an unfair advantage), and I find it very hard to believe that the DS doesn't have something for everyone. Out of curiosity, of the games I listed which was the one you were interested in?

[NeoTechni]

Pokemon diamond

[crux]

As the other novelty controller guy, I find it odd that you could possibly consider a touchscreen to be a "novelty." To me that's like saying a keyboard and mouse is a novelty. The Wii perhaps rests on novelty a bit more than a touch screen does, but even then it's capable of interfaces that no other systems are capable of simply because of the ability to point and click.

[DaGamingMonkey]

PS, I like the SNES ports, etc.

That's pretty much why I got it.

Favored publisher: Nintendo
Favored developer: Nintendo
Estimated value of collection: $9,056

Ign overestimates values
They think my sega gen collection of only 22 games about 5 of them being hockey games is worth 512 bucks.... :-/

[Hatta]

Only 1 of those are games i like

Pokemon diamond

So the problem is your lack of taste, not the lack of quality titles.