Having prompted a raft of copycat titles, Nintendo's flagship DS franchise has bucked the boom-and-bust sales trends of the past by remaining in the Top 40 for the entire duration of its time at retail, claiming 13th spot this week.
And the ongoing success of the original and its sequel More Brain Training means that Nintendo doesn't feel the need to release any more titles.
Here at God is a Geek, we've rounded up 6 DS and 3DS games that we want to see on Switch.
If Nintendo rolled out VC two years ago like they should have, there would probably be DS and 3DS games on the Switch by now. But yeah, I think DS and 3DS are something they should do.
The European Wii U eShop has received a late night surprise, Dr.Kawashima’s Brain Training (Brain Age in North America) has released.
The game has been made available for free and for a limited time following a similar release in Japan. Nintendo has not announced either release but did announce they would be bringing DS games to the Wii U Virtual Console in the future.
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What an interesting article. I played brain training a few times when it first came out, and I actually liked it a lot, despite the fact that it was basically the same kind of stuff that I was doing (and hating) at school.
And wow, 9 people worked on it and it only took 3 months? Then it went on to sell 19 million copies! That's just incredible! It must have had a massive profit margin.
I love these kinds of games, not sure how accurate they are but its usually a lot of fun for a little while.
They don't wan't to oversaturate the market. TBH I've had enough of mario these past few months, I'm taking a break before Brawl incase I overload.
brain training is a casual title that reaches millions of people so of course there are going to be copycats, plus Nintendo knows that as a casual title it doesn't really require many sequels, casual gamers can play a game forever as long as it's simple and repetitive so I see no reason why not to can it, Nintendo has enough moolah as it is anyway.