DS Video Games
DS video games have enjoyed considerable commercial success in the past few years and the future looks even brighter for Nintendos portable protg. Bestselling titles include Nintendogs, New Super Mario Bros, Brain Age, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, Guitar Hero On Tour, Cooking Mama, and Final Fantasy IV. These games represent a variety of genres like simulation, adventure, puzzle, music, and RPG. Theres an abundance of DS video games of various types because the touch screen can be applied to many video game genres. Much of the DSs success can be attributed to its touch screen featureit can navigate characters across a map, it can simply make choosing menu options easier, and one of the best parts of touch activation is that it can make video game activities more realistic, like performing an operation on a patient or lifting aside obstacles to move ahead using a stylus, and much more. The DS is successful because it is versatile and it can appeal to a wide audience.
The touch screen has been utilized in new, exciting ways in consequent DS video games that are being released. One highly anticipated and acclaimed game is Scribblenauts, in which players solve puzzles by writing practically anything they can think of so that they can use it to help them. This is a level of imaginative creativity thats hard to attain without a touch screen feature. Sketching is also utilized in Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, the sequel to the popular title Professor Layton and the Curious Village. It combines mystery and puzzle elements that require active use of the stylus in gameplay. The DS has also taken on an interactive story aspect in games like the Ace Attorney series and Hotel Dusk. Maybe this has something to do with the fact that the DS opens and closes like a book, and the format works well with dialogue going on in one side, and the action taking place on the opposite side with the touch screen. These are only a couple examples of the DSs innovation and the gaming community looks forward to seeing what else it has in store.
PSP games are likely to give DS games big competition, but its unlikely that the DS is going to snap shut anytime soon. DS video games continue to prosper on the gaming market and their touch screen gameplay has yet to be replicated by competing gaming consoles.
