December 19th, 2007

by PacManPolarBear (http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/index.php/author/pacmanpolarbear/)

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Top Gaming Moment # 83: 2007

Source: GameSpot (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6183909.html?tag=result;title;1)

According to Nintendo, their portable gaming console, the DS, has sold more than 6 million units in the United States over the past year. If Nintendo is to be believed (NPD numbers are yet to come in), the DS reigns supreme as the best selling portable of 2007.

Find out why it made the list, after the jump!

Gamers were apparently wowed by the incredible graphics, wondrous DS gaming pen and yes, count’em, TWO screens, allowing the DS to sweep the portable gaming market. OMG! With so many groundbreaking and original (rofl) titles like Nintendogs, Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl, New Super Mario Bros and Mario Kart, there seems to be no stopping this cheap (I’m just talking about the price tag, honest) Nintendo product. Rather than purchasing the multi functional, modern graphics, and high tech Sony PSP; most portable gamers went the inexpensive, low end, countless classic ported titles, DS route.

That’s why the incredible (yet baffling to me) sales of the Nintendo DS checks in at number 83 in our top 100 Gaming moments of 2007!

Click here for the rest of Sarcastic Gamer’s Top 100 Gaming Moments from 2007 all in one place! (http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/index.php/top-100)

i love my DS, with the extra long battery life, and my soon to come in r4 chip, im going to be getting even less work done at ....work.

*From the front page comments*

Wow. Well I wrote this article from my perspective, SG is not a care bear love fest for everything. DS lovers, chill, you won and the numbers prove it. I admit I even play a DS game or two. I don’t really get it as I am a hardcore gamer, but the value of the DS is obvious to any but the most close minded.

Props DS.

*From the front page comments*

Wow. Well I wrote this article from my perspective, SG is not a care bear love fest for everything. DS lovers, chill, you won and the numbers prove it. I admit I even play a DS game or two. I don’t really get it as I am a hardcore gamer, but the value of the DS is obvious to any but the most close minded.

Props DS.

I regret getting a DS over a PSP, seeing as how there are only a handful of good games for the thing. Oh well, just gotta wait till next-gen portables come around now.

Is there really a win and lose in gaming? If it has the games you want, who cares, right?

Personally, I like the damn thing... again, it's that whole emulating keyboard/mouse combo that got my attention, but that's my view. Sadly, this is the one place Metroid let me down.... and stopped being... well... Metroid.