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GAF Poll: Would you pay $150 for a DS?
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krypt0nian
Banned
Yes.
aparisi2274
Member
YES
MaddenNFL64
Member
Yes. Absolutely.
Oni Link 666
Member
Yes. $150 with Picto Chat and a Metroid demo sounds good. Unless Metroid is ready for launch. I'll probably preorder soon and get the system with one game on launch.
Journeywalker
Member
Yes, if only to PictoChat with my friend across the campus wireless network.
glennzilla69
Member
Yes, and I'm going to trade in my SP to help pay for it. I don't play multiplayer with it, so the single player only feature is plenty for me....
Bluemercury
Member
Drinky Crow said:
Embarrassing is your devotion to troll anything Nintendo related..... if you compare the nintendo consoles with their portable ones you can see natural evolution of the Portable market:
nes--->Gameboy
Snes--->GBA
N64--->DS
the handheld market is for some reason one generation behind the home console market, and Nintendo probably knows this reason better than anyone( battery, price...?)
If Sony wants to change(try) that good but, you should know, if you're really a gamer or something, that better technology doesnt mean much in the portable market, specially when you put it above Battery comsunption, history usually repeats itself, heck if you have a GBA then i dont know why even wrote this...........
JoshuaJSlone
Member
But what about a dual screen portable N64 with a touch screen, wireless play, Internet connectivity, larger cheaper games, and more third party support?Mrbob said:
Brofist
Member
Bluemercury said:
I think it's ok to have a company come in and try to buck the trend. The PSP entry will change the market, as Nintendo looks like they will try and push the DS as a low price alternative (something only competition would have made them do). I think it's a good thing that people will be able to walk in a store and have a high end (PSP) and a low end (DS) choice for handheld gaming.
glennzilla69
Member
Can't wait to read all the PSP disc read error horror stories.... 
glennzilla69
Member
I know, it's made by Sony who made all those PS2's that were so well crafted that people ended up owning 2 or 3 of them in Japan when the first or second one failed....DeadStar said:
Tortfeasor
Member
Yep... Going to go trade in my GBA tomorrow!
Date of Lies
Banned
kpop100 said:
DS a "low price alternative"? It's been in the works for years now. The DS has a touch screen, wireless play, internet connectivity, a mic.
Seriously, you'd have to be pretty blind not to see that the DS has a lot going for it, even if you're not perticularly interested in it. If it was just the "next GameBoy" with n64 graphics, I wouldn't give 2 sh!ts about it, but I am generaly excited about the possibilities the touch screen, the wireless play, the 2 screens and the mic bring to the table.
Already, Nintendo have done the best thing to draw me into buying it, which is make Animal Crossing for it (which is one of the best current games that could seriously benefit from all those new features). Mind me, I didn't play the Gamecube version for that long before dropping it, since I had other games to play on my consoles. But a portable AC will have me checking my town whenever I have a free moment.
Saying the DS is a low-price alternative to the PSP is ignorant. It offers different things that the PSP does not.
Anyway, to be short, yes, I am buying it.
seismologist
Banned
im not exactly rushing to buy one. But i might depending on the games.
Brofist
Member
Date of Lies said:
You're looking too far into what I said. I didn't say it was a "low quality" alternative, I was strictly taking price into account...and that's all. The DS has a lot of things going for it to seperate it from the PSP...so I guess alternative was a bad choice of wording on my part...but again I only meant in price.
PlagueWielder
Member
Yupp, it's low for being launch-price.
If my predicition is correct, and the DS launches at $249.95 AUD in Australia I will not be buying it at launch. Built in Pictochat and a Hunters demo make it pretty damn tempting, but it's still too high for me and I will wait for the first price drop. I also want to wait and see how things pan out with the wireless capabilities and how the DS is adopted in Australia... not much point getting a DS for great wireless features with no one to play with, is there?
edit:
"Now I'm coming to gobble you up," said the troll.
"Oh, no! Don't take me. Wait a little till the big Billy Goat Gruff comes. He's much bigger."
"Very well! Be off with you," said the troll.
But just then up came the big Billy Goat Gruff .
Trip, trap, trip, trap, trip, trap! went the bridge, for the billy goat was so heavy that the bridge creaked and groaned under him.
"Who's that tramping over my bridge?" roared the troll.
"It's I! The big Billy Goat Gruff ," said the billy goat, who had an ugly hoarse voice of his own.
"Now I 'm coming to gobble you up," roared the troll.
Well, come along! I've got two spears,
And I'll poke your eyeballs out at your ears;
I've got besides two curling-stones,
And I'll crush you to bits, body and bones.
That was what the big billy goat said. And then he flew at the troll, and poked his eyes out with his horns, and crushed him to bits, body and bones, and tossed him out into the cascade, and after that he went up to the hillside. There the billy goats got so fat they were scarcely able to walk home again. And if the fat hasn't fallen off them, why, they're still fat; and so,
Snip, snap, snout.
This tale's told out.
;P
edit:
"Oh, it's the second Billy Goat Gruff , and I'm going up to the hillside to make myself fat," said the billy goat, who hadn't such a small voice.Drinky Crow said:
"Now I'm coming to gobble you up," said the troll.
"Oh, no! Don't take me. Wait a little till the big Billy Goat Gruff comes. He's much bigger."
"Very well! Be off with you," said the troll.
But just then up came the big Billy Goat Gruff .
Trip, trap, trip, trap, trip, trap! went the bridge, for the billy goat was so heavy that the bridge creaked and groaned under him.
"Who's that tramping over my bridge?" roared the troll.
"It's I! The big Billy Goat Gruff ," said the billy goat, who had an ugly hoarse voice of his own.
"Now I 'm coming to gobble you up," roared the troll.
Well, come along! I've got two spears,
And I'll poke your eyeballs out at your ears;
I've got besides two curling-stones,
And I'll crush you to bits, body and bones.
That was what the big billy goat said. And then he flew at the troll, and poked his eyes out with his horns, and crushed him to bits, body and bones, and tossed him out into the cascade, and after that he went up to the hillside. There the billy goats got so fat they were scarcely able to walk home again. And if the fat hasn't fallen off them, why, they're still fat; and so,
Snip, snap, snout.
This tale's told out.
;P
Chittagong
Gold Member
Yes I'll buy it, along with all Nintendo's first-party games and the surgery game.
I expect it to be initially lots of fun and launch with a big splash. That said, I do not buy it expecting the thing to be supported for years to come. Once the novelty wears off, I'm done with it, and so is probably the market.
I expect it to be initially lots of fun and launch with a big splash. That said, I do not buy it expecting the thing to be supported for years to come. Once the novelty wears off, I'm done with it, and so is probably the market.