While I don't remember doubting the DS, I wasn't very excited about it.
In fact, my brother, who almost never plays games, got way more excited about it than I did, and asked for it for Christmas the year it was released.

He later sold it though, and bought a PSP. Which he also ended up selling.

I ended up buying my first DS in July 2005, right after the Electric Blue DS was released. The free Super Mario 64 DS promotion was going on, and Mario Kart DS had been announced 2 months earlier, so I had to get one!

Then I won a Crimson/Black DS Lite signed by Eiji Aonuma last month at the Nintendo World Store's Phantom Hourglass launch event!

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I completely doubted it. I won't lie. I owned every other game boy model(pocket excluded) and still doubted it. I thought the touchscreen would be a gimmick that would ruin all my favorite franchises. I wasn't even crazy about the design (the Phat). It looked bulky, had sharp edges and overall just didn't impress me like the design of the SP did. Then the Lite came. The lite improved on the original in nearly every aspect imaginable. I now own both the DS and the PSP, and they're still my most-often-played systems. Favorite game happens to be the touch screen based Meteos. Oh the irony. My favorite games are when developers are limited by the hardware, and have to make the best product possible on said hardware. So many games these days try to be a full course meal, when all I want is a little dessert. A stupid analogy, I know, but the PSP and DS are pretty much the last bastion of quality, classic style games with replay value--and I'm a sucker for sidescrollers.

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None. If it was good enough for casinos and ATM's then we can have a portable that plays games with the same technology. The DS lite I wasn't sure at first but since everyone treated it like the second coming my doubts were pacified.

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I was late to the party when I bought a GBA SP only a few months before the original DS was released, so naturally I felt like Nintendo was moving on too soon! I wasn't ready!

So I really loved my SP and poo-poo'd the DS as a minor upgrade to GBA, though I can't tell you whether that was genuine doubt or just sour grapes.

But the more I read about it, the more excited I became, and finally somebody bought me a Lite. It's one of those systems, you just can't be sure until you play it. Nintendo's whole strategy with the DS and Wii has been "Playing is believing." And it's true. Now I trust them to know what they're doing; they've grown up a lot since the days of Virtual Boy. If they told me their next system was a mallet to the balls, I'd just say, "Bring it on, baby!"

(But I'm still not buying a DS Micro.)

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I never doubted it but I was worried about the launch window games, which sucked in my opinion.

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I sure did,

What makes the DS great is it's library, but back before it came out it oviouly had no games and as such, I thought the PSP was gonna walk all over it.

I mean come on! it looked sleeker, the screen was better and could play music and movies.

Since I never got around to getting a handheld, until the DS got the facelift and Mario Kart.

However, it was only when I played Elit Beat Agents that I knew my handheld choice was spot on.

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i did doubt the DS. i got it on launch day since it came out a week before my birthday. i played Super Mario 64 (never had an N64, went with a PS1), Madden 05 and The Urbz: Sims in the City. after i played them my DS just collected dust and i was pissed for a long time. then i got Mario Kart DS, Animal Crossing, M&L Superstar Saga, Metroid Prime Hunters, New Super Mario Bros., and all was good. i admittedly havent bought a new DS game since New Super Mario Bros. though. i may pick up Phantom Hourglass during the holidays.

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Hahahaha, are you kidding me? I bought mine the first day it came out, got there about 2 hours before the store even opened. It was me and my friend, we both got it at the same time, and I kicked his ass on the metroid prime demo. It took a little getting used to, but for the better.

No way in hell I ever doubted the DS, as a matter of a fact, I was freakishly overprotective of my DS.

Though... there still are a few things I doubt'll ever happen on the DS, perhaps on the next one.

There really is no doubt on the machine, it's up to developers to overcome those doubts... ya know, pick up those doubts, snap em in half, and feed em to the dogs... I need sleep..

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The second I saw it in a nintendo power article, I knew that it was the next step in gaming. My dad warned me not to be an "early adopter" to wait and see if they support it. Against his advice I got one the christmas it came out. Played it non-stop, loved it, and later bought a DS light and have been enjoying it ever since.

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Oh, I completely doubted the DS' viability! I, in no uncertain terms, told my friends that it was a novelty act that was too big, too ugly, and too dim to be anything more than a followup failure to the Virtual Boy. To be fair, my assessment was of the original DS and the Lite revision answered my complaints. But I was so blinded by those flaws that I couldn't even grasp the system's potential for creative, innovative gaming experiences. I bought a DS Lite in January --thanks to Gamestop's GBA SP $50 trade-in promo-- and I've been pleased as punch playing Phantom Hourglass, an especially wonderful revelation given the fact that I had declared at The Last E3 Ever (as a non-DS owner) that it was unlikely to make any positive contributions to the Zelda series and the DS' reputation. Boy, was I wrong!

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I never doubted it.

My first Gameboy was the original version, and although the Game Gear was way cooler and the Gameboy craze was already over I really loved it because of Zelda: Link's Awakening, Super Mario Land 1-3, King of Fighters and the Wario Land games. Those were so great.

Then the Gameboy Pocket came out, which I couldn't afford, but I didn't mind, because I still could play the newest games.
When the Gameboy Color came out I really needed to have it. We never had much money, so the Gameboy was my only chance to play video games at all. So I told my mum about the Color months before it arrived on the German market (i said, "but mum, it's smaller, the display is way better than my old one and it's in COLOR!!!") and then I got it for X-Mas. I was the happiest child ever. :-D

When the Gameboy Advance arrived in our stores I couldn't afford that, neither, and I was a little too old to run to my Mom and ask her to get it for me, so I waited for the next one.
I was very tempted when Nintendo came up with the SP, but I still was waiting for something I really, really, really had to buy.

Then I heard about the DS and I was absolutely convinced. I started to run around like a little child an told everyone about it. "Omg, it's so cool, it has two screens, and one of them is a touch screen, isn't that just great, imagine what you can do with it!!" My boyfriend and my friend got one for my birthday, and yes, most of the games weren't too cool, but we imported Electroplancton from Japan (I still love that game) and bought Wario Ware Touched, and then I bought all the old Advance games I was craving for and played those until all the good DS games came out.
I was telling everyone about the DS and I still do whenever I meet someone who doesn't know about it. Five people bought one, too, after I had shown them this beautiful little thingy we all love.

I loved it from the start and I still do. :-)

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