[DS] They really will release any old shit on the DS these days

DS gaming, never exactly a byword for quality has plumbed new depths recently with the release of such must-have titles as:

What's Cooking with Jamie Oliver



Imagine Dream Wedding



Disney Fairies Tinker Bell



and Deal or no Deal, the Banker is Back



Amongst the mountains of crap released on an almost weekly basis for the DS, there are of course the occaisional decent game but one wonders how much money Nintendo actually make from licensing these endless piles of landfill fodder?

Anyway, what in your opinion is the epitomy of shitty DS gaming? Which "game" has the weakest premis, the poorest celebrity endorsement and generally the least appeal of all the shit that's out there. Worryingly, I found all the above quite near the top of the Amazon best seller list for DS games so I can only imagine the horrors one might find nearer the bottom...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The PS2 has a fair old collection of crap like these, most of which started appearing towards the end of it's lifecycle (Although actually it's still the second best selling console behind the DS so it ain't exactly dead yet) so I guess that lower development costs play a big part in the decision on which platform to aim at.

How ya doing, buddy?

Imagine Babysitter? Seriously? I simply can't imagine a less appealing game title than that, unless it was some kind of fucked up Jap rape simulator or something.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I did actually give a mate a copy of Mary-Kate and Ashley's show jump challenge on PS1 for his birthday last month (Which I found in a charity shop unsurprisingly). I had to have a quick go before I give it to him and getting much past the loading screen took a real force of effort. Robot Wars Arenas of Destruction on PS2 manages somehow to be even sadder and more boring that the tv show which is a real achievement so I'm not suggesting that it's the DS exclusively that gets this shit, just that like OP I've been getting a lot of emails from Game and Amazon and some of the shit they're touting for the DS is laughably bad.

The thing is too, it's not like these are the shitty games you can find if you really hunt for them, these are the key sellers for the DS this christmas it seems. The last email from Amazon I got was trying to sell me GoW2 on Xbox 360, LBP on PS3, Mariokart on the Wii and Hello Kitty: Big City Dreams on the DS.

If that's the highlight of the system's games, I'm unlikely to bother browsing the rest of the collection.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Oh no, I've got a DS, had it since about a week after they came out and there's a bunch of games I really like on it. I was talking there as an outside observer, if I didn't have one, the impression I'd get from the retail sites is that all the games are a bit toilet.

I was speaking idiomatically.