Editing Nintendo DS (section)

=== 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.