The Nintendo DS is a great portable gaming console because of its selection of games and because of the fact that NIntendo put a lot of time and energy into developing this console into the force that it is now. I think that the Nintendo DS only lacks the ability to watch movies and that is holding it back. However, this problem can be easily solved with the purchase of a R4 DS or M3ds from DS elite. With this, you can basically watch movies on your DS like it was a portable DVD player except you won’t have to lug around the discs.