I seriously disagree with the DS touchscreen being bad. That's entirely personal preference. There are plenty of DS games that use the touch screen exclusively and still play excellently in my opinion. Hell, there are excellent series that would have never existed or faded into obscurity if it wasn't for touch controls.Brian Tams said:Except the touch screen controls for the DS were total ass, and a lot of the games (the good games) towards the end of its life span maybe had one or two gimmicky features with the touchscreen. I said got the ball rolling; Nintendo put the ball out there, Apple pushed it down the hill that showed games controlled entirely through touch and rotating the iPad were functional. The WiiU controller is, after all, merely a tablet with joy sticks.
Granted, the resistive display isn't as responsive as its modern capacitive brethren and there are some very very good games on smartphones and tablets that couldn't really work on another platform. And some DS games horribly overused the gimmicks available to them, but to suggest that the DS touch controls were not a good thing doesn't make sense to me.
Again though, It's personal experience which dictates how you feel about a platform and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the DS.
(damn that makes me sound like a proper fanboy, just want to throw it out there: I own a 360, 3ds, vita and gaming PC and while I love some of Nintendo's stuff I think they've made some massive mistakes in recent years, just that the ds wasn't one of them)