I don’t know why, but the desire to get myself a DS has been growing. Should I ever decide to make the trek to PAX, I will definitely get one. I saw a picture on p-a.com and noticed that at the concert, they were doing the whole lighter/cell phone waving thing, except everyone had a DS. Even in the PAX forums, it’s been noted that the DS is the choice for handheld gaming at PAX.

I don’t know what it is about the DS, but it seems to be far superior for multiplayer gaming, and that (obviously) makes it far superior for the social aspect of gaming. This appeals to me far more than any of the actual consoles. Of course, the Wii remains a close second. Perhaps it’s the fact that WoW has opened me up to this new realm of meeting random people.

And so I leave you with a quote from Tycho, from the first PA book, Attack of the Bacon Robots. I do this because it answers a lot of the questions people have about Nintendo’s decisions in the past while, especially when the DS and Wii were first announced. It also mirrors my beliefs as well.

[...] Nintendo’s basic philosophy: that videogames are a potent medium, one that anyone should be able to enjoy. This utterly confounds the hardcore player, because — unlike the rest of the entire Goddamn industry — every move of the company isn’t catered to their petulant whim.

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