It’s especially brilliant for Nintendo DS, since that works best with a touchscreen and the vertical layout of the screens fits great on an iPhone. Getting it

It’s especially brilliant for Nintendo DS, since that works best with a touchscreen and the vertical layout of the screens fits great on an iPhone. Getting it instantly increased my time gaming on my phone from ~0 minutes per week to four or five hours per week. And the games I’m playing are a ton better. I’d buy more iPhone games but 1) there’s a very limited set of good ones and 2) they vanish too often, I’m not paying $20 to rent a game for 2 years when I might not even get to it until after that (life happens). More advantages over App Store games: it’s easier on battery life than most native games(!), fits dozens of games in the space of one native game (and that’s the DS, not the smallest-cart system it emulates), and provides a common and IME very-reliable suspend-resume interface across all games. I can be back where I was in some fairly-complex game faster than I can get back to where I was in Angry Birds, say, which matters a lot on mobile, I don’t hesitate to close it at a moment’s notice. … and that’s all aside from the, ah, price advantage (though to be fair I do own some of the carts I’m playing on it)