The Nintendo DS2: What! No More Trips To The Physical Store?
Judy Ramsook
November 06, 2009
It didn´t take me long to realize that when I started playing video games in the late 80s to early 90s, I was also collecting those games I played.
And if your hobbies include: listening to music, reading or playing video games, after a while you become sort of proud of your little collection(s).
You can go back and read a book or two a second time, listen to a music cd you haven´t listened to in a while, or play a video game you played, conquered and probably forgot about a while ago. But what happens if you are no longer able to physically hold one of those items in your hand?
What if, for example, the powers that be decided to go the way of the hard drive for your favourite portable video game system?
It just might come to that if the powers that be have their way with say, the other Nintendo DS that´s in the works. Tentatively titled the Nintendo DS2, and according to www.videogamesblogger.com this Nintendo DS2 just might be a system for which you will have to download the games you want to play almost like you do with the PSP GO.
Now don´t get me wrong here, this downloadable feature is good to have on your video game console. It works well with the Nintendo Wii, and the Nintendo Dsi.
But whatever happened to the fun of going to your local Gamestop store and actually holding the game case in your hand? I don´t know about other gamers out there, but I enjoy that experience. And more.
For some of those games come packaged with items such as posters and even music soundtrack cds from the video games.
If the next Nintendo DS came with a hard drive and internet capability you can use to purchase and download games you want to play from an online shop, I think I would miss frequenting the Gamestop store.
I would miss the joy of looking at the variety of games on the shelves, actually holding the game case in my hand as I take it to to cashier and of course the contents of the game case.
And what about the Nintendo DS collection you have amassed over time? If you get the Nintendo DS2 with games you have to download as opposed to purchasing from a store, you will not be able to add downloadable games to your physical collection.
But if Nintendo decides to go the way of the hard drive for the next Nintendo DS, I hope Gamestop has a giant blow out sale on Nintendo DS games so we avid video gamers can stock up physical games to add to our collection.
With that said, I think I will look for and take out that poster that came packaged with the Nintendo DS version of Chrono Trigger, and look for a place to proudly display it while I listen to the CD that came packaged with the Nintendo DS version of: The Legacy Of YS Books I & II.
And if your hobbies include: listening to music, reading or playing video games, after a while you become sort of proud of your little collection(s).
You can go back and read a book or two a second time, listen to a music cd you haven´t listened to in a while, or play a video game you played, conquered and probably forgot about a while ago. But what happens if you are no longer able to physically hold one of those items in your hand?
What if, for example, the powers that be decided to go the way of the hard drive for your favourite portable video game system?
It just might come to that if the powers that be have their way with say, the other Nintendo DS that´s in the works. Tentatively titled the Nintendo DS2, and according to www.videogamesblogger.com this Nintendo DS2 just might be a system for which you will have to download the games you want to play almost like you do with the PSP GO.
Now don´t get me wrong here, this downloadable feature is good to have on your video game console. It works well with the Nintendo Wii, and the Nintendo Dsi.
But whatever happened to the fun of going to your local Gamestop store and actually holding the game case in your hand? I don´t know about other gamers out there, but I enjoy that experience. And more.
For some of those games come packaged with items such as posters and even music soundtrack cds from the video games.
If the next Nintendo DS came with a hard drive and internet capability you can use to purchase and download games you want to play from an online shop, I think I would miss frequenting the Gamestop store.
I would miss the joy of looking at the variety of games on the shelves, actually holding the game case in my hand as I take it to to cashier and of course the contents of the game case.
And what about the Nintendo DS collection you have amassed over time? If you get the Nintendo DS2 with games you have to download as opposed to purchasing from a store, you will not be able to add downloadable games to your physical collection.
But if Nintendo decides to go the way of the hard drive for the next Nintendo DS, I hope Gamestop has a giant blow out sale on Nintendo DS games so we avid video gamers can stock up physical games to add to our collection.
With that said, I think I will look for and take out that poster that came packaged with the Nintendo DS version of Chrono Trigger, and look for a place to proudly display it while I listen to the CD that came packaged with the Nintendo DS version of: The Legacy Of YS Books I & II.
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