The best games for the Nintendo DS.

He had no chance? and used them. With the Nintendo DS is a little stroke of genius have succeeded, while an overwhelming sales success. This is not only on the device, but also in the Games.

 

In the spring of 2005 was to instruct the world in their unanimous verdict: The new Nintendo handheld games is fun, but will not sell. Is what for curious players, but nothing for the masses. Thus murmured the Observer after the press conference on the Nintendo DS, short for dual screen, dual screen, for the European market was presented. Even Nintendo itself was cautious: No successor to the highly successful Game Boy, the DS, but on the parallel market.

No wonder: The Japanese came with a device that is both by design and by the graphic quality was far from a nearly simultaneously published competitors: Sony's PlayStation Portable, or PSP. Black was the one with a big screen for games with stunning graphics. The DS on the other hand, in a design no-man's-land between cigarette case and Frühstücksdose located, the first games were only marginally better than the Game Boy. No chance. Nintendo would be the market leader in portable game consoles lose.

Sony's competing device is far behind

Today, we know it better now approaching the sales of the DS of the 100 million-unit mark.

While many manufacturers offer on each other now with various brain-jogging-cloning, and animal Ponyhofspielen to Baby simulations, rather than new concepts. Nevertheless, there are just in the first years of the console so many new ideas that the choice difficult. We take a look back and make the twenty most interesting games for the young classics (see pictures above line).

Success of titles such as the puzzle game "Dr. Kawashimas brain-jogging" or the dogs Simulation "Nintendogs" have sold millions of times and after a design change which now sees "DS Lite" device is properly called good. The PSP is in the sales ranking far behind.

The calculus of Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has risen. The wanted a games console that everyone understands their control. One that no longer only to hardcore gamers sets, but also appeals to other people. Therefore, the device to fold. It has two screens, one of which is touch. Contributed to him with a pen, the characters through the worlds. A built-in microphone picks up voice commands even opposite. Since then, it does not matter that the graphics are not quite as good as the competition, the control is important.

A portable synthesizer and intolerable cooking classes

The new operating concept suggested in the games maker. Suddenly able to develop ideas, which were previously unthinkable. Pleasant side effect for the designers: The development costs were in contrast to other consoles low. A game that is not sold so well, was not as bad. The increased experimentation.

And so are funny, bizarre and wondrous games emerged. From the first experiments, the capacity of the device indicated as "Project Rub" or "Wario Ware Touched" on music games, almost as a work of art can be applied as "Electro Plankton" to replicas of old music synthesizers like the Korg DS-10 is: It gives courage to take risks.

Meanwhile, the DS is no longer just games. He is a language teacher, in addition to the English and French, even Chinese can be practiced. He trained the fitness helps withdrawal cigarette or trained eyes. For almost every case, the appropriate software. How useful this really is, in each case must be decided. A DS-Kochkurs belongs in any case not to the particular application in practical applications.