Topic: A 3DS VS DS console battle. Which had the better games??

@kkslider5552000 oh I couldn’t agree more. The ds times to play/to finish/and save mechanisms were very precise and awesome.

I’m glad to see many liking the ds games. This console is weird, because everyone has something they like about it. Truly a treasure of a games collection can be achieved with the ds. The only thing I think the 3DS better, in my view, is Art Academy. The second game smashed the first in half.

@Chris77 yeah, the DS was way more fun. Developers used the console in some really amazing ways. having GBA still usable was great, plus how many used the GBA slot, pokemon especially was nice to transfer up.

However it is hard, because I played xenoblade on 3ds(the wii version was too expensive) and it had bravely default, which is one of my favorite games. I don't know in the end. I loved both. But if I had to really choose, I'd go for the DS.

The Nintendo DS has my favorite game library of all systems that I've gotten into. By pursuing the 3D effect, some of what the Nintendo DS could do was lost in the transition to the Nintendo 3DS in spite of both being two screen handhelds. I think the top screen being able to do more than the bottom visually, i.e. the 3D, as well as being larger made the use of the two screens almost completely separate throughout the 3DS's life. What that created was a library that at best in terms of creativity felt like the Nintendo DS at its launch, so 2011-early 2017 felt like it stepped back all the way to late 2004. I feel like most of the general library for the 3DS could be brought onto the Switch without too much issue, unlike the Nintendo DS library which I feel really needs to be on two screens. The DS library in general felt like it, especially as time went on, took full advantage of that system.

The Nintendo DS games continue to account for the majority of my time spent playing games. I think a majority of my Top 20 games of all time, I would fill in with Nintendo DS titles. The Nintendo DS library served as my entry point into many series and many different kinds of games, many of which continue to be my favorites of their franchise or genre. For instance, Meteos is probably my favorite puzzle game and I would say it's my favorite game that Sakurai is associated with. The only two puzzle games that come to mind that I would say are up there with Meteos are Tetris DS and Picross 3D, same system library. My favorites of the trinity, Mario, Zelda and Metroid, are Super Mario 64 DS, Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and Metroid Prime Hunters. My favorite Pokemon game would be Pokemon Black, and if there's any Pokemon game that would make me second guess that Pokemon Heartgold would be in the mix. This is what it is like across the Nintendo DS library, a lot of peaks in my video game experiences.

The majority of users here that have mentioned the Nintendo 3DS as the better system in this topic have lead with the fact that the Nintendo 3DS is backwards compatible with the Nintendo DS. That's all that needs to be said when comparing game libraries of the two. I think both my 3DS XL and Nintendo 2DS are better systems than my DS Phat, DS Lite and DSi, but it's only because they have the compatibility. If they couldn't play DS games, my 3DS systems probably would have been sitting around since 2018 following WarioWare Gold.

Although the 3ds had tones of amazing games and most of the games were better than the older ds games I think that the ds library of games is more diverse and I think that I might prefer the ds library a little bit more.

The DS will be very special to me as my favorite franchise Castlevania had 3 amazing entries on it.

3DS, unquestionably. The system had one of the strongest software libraries of all time. Amazing run of Atlus JRPGs. Probably the strongest single-system line-up of Nintendo first-party titles. The glasses-free 3D effect continues to be one of the coolest gimmicks Nintendo has ever come up with. And, unlike with the NDS, it didn't have a period of time where developers were designing their games around intrusive, annoying hardware gimmicks.

The NDS library is obviously a lot more diverse, but so is the library available on your average mobile device. I'd MUCH rather have a smaller number of mostly fantastic games over a larger number of games that are all over the place in terms of quality.

@Ralizah you do make a good point, I do struggle to enjoy a lot of ds games due to the controls, for example, any game that requires using the stylus to either move around or look around makes the game unplayable for me

@Jaidan-Farrelly I agree with what you said. Something about ds games have a strange hold on me gaming wise.

I mean, I played a lot of DS games so, I going to go with DS.