Topic: Inevitable doom for the DS (or so we thought back in 2004)

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/getting-it-wrong-article

Well, the first time I saw it was back on the launch night on G4 (actually on Filter's special E3 2004 episode, the show's cancelled ) and I never considered it to be a big fail for Nintendo.

So my questions to you are:

1. What were your initial thoughts of the Nintendo DS at first.
2. What were your thoughts when you finally got one of your own?

Discuss!

1. 2 screens?! One that's touch sensitive?! 3-D Graphics?! OH HECKS YEAH!!! XD

2. I was right! It's AAAAAWWWWEEESSSOOOMMMMEEEE!!!

1. What a piece of crap
2.Looks like I was wrong. Although to be fair the DS did suck for the first year of so.

When it came out, I thought it would be the best thing since swiss cheese. When I got it, I thought it was a piece of crap. It took almost a year for that to change.

I actually thought that it was cool and the double screen, one of them being touch screen, seemed amazing. I never saw the PSP being a success.

But even so...I never imagined that the DS would be THAT succesful. I thought that it couldn't ever surpass GB line and I don't think I was the only one.

I thought the dual screens were pointless. I still do. I thought touch screen wouldn't see much good use, and that still looks to be the case, though it sees better use than the Wii remote, generally. That said, it's a Nintendo handheld. I didn't care about the goofy features, I knew it'd eventually have a good library of games.

1) Mommy! Look at that! Can I get it?
2) This is awesome!
I got mine before I was REALLY into gaming, and I was young. I still love it, and I never disliked it.

At first I was kind of apprehensive about it. I mostly wanted to stick to my GBA SP.
But then, when I got the DS, I forgot about the. . . thing.

1) I am a tool...I must buy it...
2) I am a happy tool.

I wanted it so badly that I... I... collected bottles in the ditch... I really wanted one and I was shaking uncontrolably when I went to buy it at Wal-Mart...

great i got it for my b day [3 weeks after launch]
great i love this machine now i got something to do on the road

1.it looked to ugly for me
2. i waited for e3 2006 to get the ds lite instead

I honestly didn't pay attention to the DS at all until I saw the first commercial for NSMB... a brand new Mario platformer on a handheld system? heck yeah I wanted that. When it came out, my husband and I had the money, so we both went out and bought our lites, NSMB, and MKDS. Man, that was fun. :3

1) I wanted one so badly when I heard of it
2) First game was Nintendogs, showed some good use of the touch screen IMO. Loved the crap out of it

I thought the PSP would dominate the market.

I remember at launch people saying the DS wasn't good because Mario 64 was the only high-profile launch game, and it had terrible touch control (which is why they included D-pad movement control). Therefore they blamed it on the system.
Unlike the PSP, which had a real hardware problem, as I remember. Nevermind, I forgot. "Sticky buttons" were a feature Sony was trying out.

1/. Man, this is going to fail BIG time.
2. HOLY CRAP! THIS IS AWESOME!

I probably thought it was a tad odd, but I wanted it anyways.

My friend got one pretty early after launch, SM64DS was enough to convince how sweet it was, but I still took a while to get one. (I think I may not have even had a GBA at the time)

1.I wanted one badly.
2.It is one of the best handhelds ever made.

1: Awesome!
2: I was right, it's awesome!

EDIT: I just remembered, when I first got my DS I also got Pokemon LeafGreen and I thought it would show a map or something on the bottom screen, but it didn't and I was disappointed...