Nope Ninty use there own charge ports. There reason is everyone owned a DS, so you should have a charger.

You're kidding me right? Both those excuses are weak. If you think a simple plastic charger is worth $20 then you're insane. And this isn't doing previous owners any favours. There are people out there who would like having more than one charger.

This is absolutely shocking. Nobody would have expected that Nintendo will continue a practice that has been in effect since August 2012.

polish is more than bug free to me.  it's about having an experience that is always positive and never feels bad or incomplete or makes the gamer feel frustrated about playing the game.  that can be bugs.  it can be balance.  it can be missing features that make the gamer feel frustrated or gets in the way of them enjoying the game.

a generic instance of a lack of polish in games is the concept of invisible walls.  it is a cheapy way to do your level design and cheapens my experience every time i run into an invisible wall.  it breaks my immersion and causes my experience to be frustrating.

so i'll give you two examples of where nintendo engraged me:

wii fit had some great ideas but a really obvious omission to an exercise game is being able to set up a routine.  it's pretty fucking obvious to me that someone would want to do more than 1 (often times 30 second or less) movement at a time.  wii fit plus included that feature and so i bought it.  but once i got the software i found out that you could only have 1 routine, you had to add the exercises in the exact order you wanted to perform them, and a movement couldn't be repeated within the routine.  i'm a chemical engineer and i can program better UIs than that...  i rage quit wii fit plus within a week because it was too frustrating to use.

mario galaxy 2.  upon completion of each level there was a loading screen that took you back to that mario head planet hub world thing.  to start the next level you had to traverse to the other side of the head to get to the launch pad thing and sit though a loading screen to take you to the world map.  you had to navigate though the world map to your next level and sit though a loading screen to take you to the galaxy.  then you had to pick your galaxy start to sit though another loading screen to load the level.  some of the levels were so short that i spend more time in loading screens than i did in gameplay.  i only made it to world 2 and i couldn't take it anymore and stopped playing which is a real shame because galaxy 1 was soo awesome.

it's just poor design, it was a barrier to my experience, and in both cases i quit the game because it was too poor of an experience to enjoy.  polish is soo much more than bug free.

I was wondering the same...

A lot of people already have a charger, so there is no real need to include one.

It makes the thing cheaper for the consumer as well, so I don't really see the problem.