Your oppinion of Sony

[Afrobean]

Also, all of my friends who have had a DS have hade a major problem with having thier touch screens being scratched very easily.

wow who woulda guessed that a screen would be prone to getting scratched? I mean, that's a standard problem with all portable gaming systems (sup psp lolz) and that's also why Nintendo made the DS and SP fold shut to protect the screen.

In short, it's your stupid friends' fault for not treating their screen with the respect it deserves. I had no problem beating the **** out of my GBC, because even if the screen was scratched, it still played fine. I imagine normal play would be much more difficult on a DS on which you need to touch the screen regularly during play.

And your gamecube: sucks for you. Nintendo products are, in general, solid. And like everyone bashing PS2s, saying that they needed to get them fixed or replaced... my PS2 has many hours of play on it, it hasn't been perfectly taken care of, it's been opened up in a failed effort to mod it, and it still functions 100% as good as it did the day I got it. What I'm trying to get at here, is that most Nintendo products are good, even if yours sucked, just like most PS2s broke easily, even though mine didn't.

[tsugomaru]

Is your PS2... the one?

Anyways, my friends has a Nintendo DS and his screen has no visible scratch. He has had it for the longest time now, like since it came out.

If you somehow screwed up with your Nintendo DS,



~Tsugomaru

[lord_carbo]

Originally Posted by slipstrike0159

I constantly find that my gamecube cant function really well after multiple uses

Overheating; give it a little space on the sides (an inch is good enough).

Or there's the extremely small chance your system is faulty (it's Nintendo, so there's a really high chance it's the first one, and I'll probably doubt you when you say "oh I gave it some space it's definitely the hardware lolo").

Originally Posted by slipstrike0159

and even though the nintendo 64 was an amazing system i found that i would have to try SEVERAL times turning the power on and off replacing the game and trying again to get it to turn on properly.

The magic of game cartridges; thank nature and it's "dust."

Originally Posted by slipstrike0159

Also, all of my friends who have had a DS have hade a major problem with having thier touch screens being scratched very easily.

You can wipe the scratches off the screen, which means that either your friends are dumb because they didn't know that or they're even dumber for pressing on the screen WAY too hard.

Out of all things you've listed there shouldn't be a single problem with the touch screen. By the time scratches become noticable the battery should be extremely weak from constant recharging and they'd probably need to get a new DS.

Originally Posted by slipstrike0159

I have a DS and i didnt have that problem, and i personally liked the multiplayer feature a whole lot, but the batery hasnt been very nice at all.

The batteries for both DS Bricks I own are fine. Each one has enough juice to last nearly a day of non-stop use. It's no powerhouse, but it works. Supposively the DS Lite's battery is even better!

[Laharl]

A lot of people scratched the hell out of their DS screens. A lot of people also pushed down MUCH harder than is necessary as well as not cleaning it properly. My DS (if I could find the damn thing) only had screen issues because I bought it used and it had a very, very, very minor scratch that was hardly noticeable. I used the system a lot, used the touch pad a lot, and never had any new problems with it whatsoever.

[ToshX]

A lot of DS Lite users had problems with their consoles cracking. These are people that handled it with perfect care when it didn't have any scratches to begin with. It has to do with tension on the console itself in its cramped room. It does it by itself. Literally, you could have it brand-new, put it in a box, check back months later and see it cracked.

Don't know if it's been said yet. tl;dr :/

[tsugomaru]

My same friend is a DS Lite user and as far as I know, he has had no problem. He goes everywhere with it and is always in his pocket. You can always count on it to be there.

He falls and crashes into things often and I'm pretty sure that his DS Lite goes through all the pain he is going. When we go camping, he also brings it along and it has survived the cold, rain, and pretty much all the weather conditions you can think of.

~Tsugomaru

[blitzmage]

If your getting scratches on your DS screen your proberly pressing too hard. It is actually a very sensitive screen that can pick up the lightest of touches.