Editing Nintendo DS (section)

== Bad Qualities ==
=== Overall ===
# You '''''need''''' a stylus to use the touchscreen since it doesn't react well to your fingers and because it uses a resistive touchscreen, unlike with smartphones and tablets, both of which used capacitive multi-touch and later became popular a few years later in the late 2000's decade, or even in 2010s (specifically in 2007 with the first iPhone).
# The console only has a D-Pad, which makes precise movement in 3D games harder.
# Like the [[Wii|Wii]] with its motion controls, the Nintendo DS's focus on the touchscreen and lower hardware specs made it a very easy target for [[Shovelware|shovelware]], especially from Destination Software.
# The Nintendo DS's Wi-Fi support along with the Wii's was discontinued when GameSpy shut down their servers on May 20, 2014, so the only way to play multiplayer nowadays is either locally or using Wiimmfi.
# While the original and Lite models are backwards compatible with GBA games, they don't support multiplayer and, like the [[Game Boy Micro]], also can't play games made for the original Game Boy and Game Boy Color due to lack of the hardware that these 2 consoles used.
# The sound quality in games can be pretty annoying to hear as some of the music and sound effects come out heavily compressed and end up being louder than expected. It could also reach the point of even being '''ear bleeding''' (case in point, the final DS game, ''[[Big Hero 6: Battle in the Bay]]'', where the music quality in this port of the game is so bad it would hurt your ears).
# You can't insert a GBA cartridge when your DS is on.

=== Original ===
# The large size of the system makes it rather bulky.
# The power button is located slightly above the D-Pad, making it easy to accidentally to turn on/off the system if your thumb slips off the D-Pad.
# The screen has a very low brightness that can make it very hard to see near the light. Although its screen isn't as dark as the original GBA or the AGS-001 version of the SP. The DS Lite and later handhelds have fixed this issue.
# The stylus is very small. The later models make the size bigger.

=== DS Lite ===
# It isn't as durable as past Nintendo systems. Similar to the 3DS XL, over time, the hinge will get loose and eventually break.
# GBA cartridges partially stick out of the slot, although this is to save space since GBA catridges only uses half of the whole catridge.

=== DSi ===
# The L and R buttons give out so often it's actually surprising.
# It removed the GBA game slot, which was not only used for playing GBA games, but also for some other accessories such as the Rumble Pak and DS games like ''Guitar Hero''.
# Licenses for downloadable games are bought for the system rather than an account, meaning that you would need to buy all the games again if the console broke.
# Data from the standard-sized model can't be transferred to the XL model, and vice versa.
# Most of the online services, such as the DSi Shop, have been discontinued since 2017.
# Some games, like the original Flipnote Studio, and pre-installed games cannot be sent over to the Nintendo 3DS.

=== DSi XL ===
# It has the same problems as the original DSi (see above).