Poll - Portable game safety
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 9:21am by David
Trains, picnics, libraries, airplanes, and now baseball games: Nintendo spottings are popping up all over the place. Whether its a GBA, DS, PSP, or something else, there’s always a bit of risk involved in brandishing a popular piece of technology in public. This week we want to know:
Do you feel safe playing portable games in public?
Let us know in comments if there are certain situations or places where your portable game stays safely tucked away.
[Click here to see last week's results for the DS Stylus vs Wii Remote poll.]
June 26th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Actually, I’m more likely to not game in public out of embarrassment rather than fear of theft.
June 26th, 2007 at 11:50 am
i live in south central los angeles EVERYTHING gets stolen here….so no i dont feel safe playing my portable in public
June 26th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
I live in the middle of nowhere, So to me, Public is about 4+ people. And everyone’s nice and friendly, so I have no problem playing on my GBA Micro at any given time.
June 26th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
I haven’t used public transportation in about 8 years (the last time I went to NYC or Boston, I forget which….) so the only opportunity I have to game in public is in waiting rooms, in line at DMV, etc. And I don’t have a problem doing that, but I don’t think I’d play my DS on, say, a NYC subway platform, for fear of having it snatched.
June 26th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I’m with greatslack, though I never even get very embarrassed- the DS Lite is too sexy to get scoffed at =P
Also, I’ve never been really afraid of my DS being stolen. It’s always either in my hands or in my pocket =]
June 26th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
“Let us know in comments if there are certain situations or places where your portable game stays safely tucked away.”
Yeah: At WORK!!
While I feel 100% safe even here in Chicago when it comes to my handheld getting stolen, my worry is getting the nasty looks when people see me playing DS instead of, say, reading The Economist or The Wall Street Journal…
June 26th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Yeah, I used to be in the same boat when I worked at a bank until 11 years ago (I never had a Game Boy at the time but playing games on your PC wasn’t acceptable, whereas reading a bit of the WSJ was.)
I just came back from a doctor’s office in which I used NitroTracker in the waiting room to transcribe some melodies I’ve had in my head for quite a while. The Nintendo DS: It’s not just for Pokemon anymore.