I just realized the other day that my venerable old grey DS has been gathering dust since I last used it to play Pokemon Diamond over the summer, and for even longer before that. Despite the handheld's userbase, there just doesn't seem to be all that much out for it that's, well, any good. Sure, you've got your usual Nintendo franchises, plus a few quirky and fun titles like Hotel Dusk and Lunar Knights, but I just can't help the feeling that third-party support for the system is... lacking.

Now, don't get me wrong: I've had fun with Mario Kart, Advance Wars, the Castlevanias, Pokemon, and a couple of other games, but I just expected more variety and quality out of a 60-million-selling system that's dominating Japan, especially. Instead, all we seem to be getting is casual titles, half-baked attempts at good games, and shortish 2D games that could be pretty faithfully re-created on an SNES.

Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone feel the same way? And, most importantly, is there any compelling reason in the future as to why I should keep it? 

I've had a similar feeling.

I'd love more Phoenix Wright, EBA, or N64 port games like MK64 or SM64...but we're not really getting them.

Maybe I just haven't been trying enough games, but I haven't seen any games or heard about many future DS games that interest me. That said, I still play a lot of my games from time to time.

well Advance wars days of ruin is coming this month

all i have to say it, if you're getting bored with the DS, you must be playing way too many games.

Have you played drawn to life or glory days?

I'm in a similar boat as you but I think my problem is more that I've simply not looked for much to play on my ds.

Though now that you mention it, short of dragon quest, i don't really know much coming out.

I'm kind of bored with mine to, I need to buy Zelda and Marioparty DS.

Problem I have is there are so many DS games I'd love to try but I'm just not willing to pay out for so many!

I doubt I will ever get to the point where there is nothing I want to at least try on DS.

Last game I finished was Pokemon Pearl than After that I spent my money on wii games

@ benkonobi - SM64 is already out on DS, but I agree with you logic on more 64 games on DS, OoT comes to mind

On topic - The DS is wonderful, if you want good games you only have to try some out. One of my favorate games on DS is sims 2, it is really addictive

I would say give Geometry Wars a go. I was a little skeptical of it at first but once I found a control scheme I liked and was good I actually love it. I can do better on Geometry Wars for my DS than my 360 now.