Man there are so many games I would like to see on the DS. X-Com, Fallout, Baldurs gate. It's such a great machine for older computer games. The stylus really goes a long way. It's too bad though. I'm pretty sure some of these games would make a killing.

I would like to see ME for the DS. Even with minigames, it may not end up being a tradiotional compilation. Puzzle Pirates is a compililation, but uses minigames for the various jobs. Puzzle Quest is a RPG type game, but all jobs are based around playing bejeweled. It works really well. Though I'm not sure if I would be happy with Bejewled for ME DS combat. Even so if it was a full sized advture/RPG game with story and all that. Then hell yeah I could live with combat puzzle game :)

Assasins Creed for DS was fun, but from what I know it's not Assasins Creed. I would place it more as a side scroller 3d prince of persia. It's got a few flaws though, but over all I enjoyed it.

That's a very negative way to try to spin this, sounds like Kaz to me.

You assert that the "keeping interest alive" statement was a hint by the Bioware programmer that this game will be halfassed.

You also assert that a console with an unparalleled amount of 3rd party support for a handheld should be treated better.

Then you generalized DS games as being mini-game focused with facial drawing features.

Another way to spin it is this, if I were say, Reggie:

The DS is recieving massive support for all 3rd party companies in the industry. Even Bioware, a company known for their large graphical heavy products, is developing a game for the DS called Sonic: Dark Chronicles, and is planning new versions of its upcoming titles like Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2, for the system. Square-Enix is gracing the console with what is perhaps its most important and hardcore gaming series, in the new full numbered itteration of Dragonquest IX. Rockstar games is releasing a new version of their popular Grand Theft Auto series on the DS. A series that has just this gen, started to slip away from Sony, due to Sony's inability to sell the software with their current consoles, exclusively. Activision has release a version of their highly popular series, Guitar Hero on the console. The DS is known as the developers system, and is selling massive amounts of hardware and software worldwide, with a very diverse range of titles, and has been justified time and time again by recieving major games from major 3rd party developers. While these DS games have come from recent support, due to excellent sales, they have also come from developers who are jumping ship from the PSP, which consistantly dissapoints western 3rd party developer attempts at profits on the console.

The PSP has been in a slump lately. Activision made the comment that Guitar Hero would come to all relevant platforms, yet there was no PSP release planned. The upcoming lineup for the PSP is literally a shame, and even PSP fanboys admit the console is in a gaming drout.

This is certainly a shame, but due to the consoles focus on technology, and lack of innovation, as well as its inability to compete on in hardware or software sales with the DS, along with its more complex, imperfect, and expensive UMD medium, the console probably does not deserve better than the treatment it's getting. Remarkably similar to a next gen Gameboy Advance, Sony looked to take the handheld market by storm. However, they made very similar mistakes to the ones they made with their PS3 device, and as a consequence, the console hasn't faired much better than it's big brother. The difference, however, is unlike the PS3, the PSP has no sister console to make 3rd party development for the console very attractive, and it's not particularly good at moving software, nor has it ever been. Therefore, along with being the hardest console to develop for, in the market, it is also the least profitable. Hence, many games developed for the console are ported PS2 releases, and sports games, which are easy to replicate due to engines developed for the PSP at the beginning of the current handheld console cycle.

In the end, the Bioware announcment is yet another boon to a system that is now the focus of more 3rd handheld support.

Attempting to marginalize the DS as a console that only plays minigames is just about as ignorant of a comment as it is possible to make. Ignorant, because the word "ignorant" describs a lack of knowledge and information. Certainly, no one on earth would believe, given the facts, that the DS has nothing but mini-games, when in fact, the DS has a vast amount of quailty games in virtually every category.