No brainer

I'm just back from a holiday where the DS played a bigger than expected part. There was good and bad though. The latter was Tetris DS, which was a mess, literally. The purity of the original concept has been replaced by clutter and annoyance. Online is fun mind. The good news concerned mental workout game Brain Training, which I can confidently predict will be massive. Yes, I know it has sold over a zillion - or thereabouts - copies in Japan, so this is hardly a wild prediction, but everyone I showed it to last week loved it. And none of them were gamers. Even Zoo Keeper has finally been ousted from my sister's DS. Nintendo's touch generation stuff may be marketing puff, but I'm certain that Brain Training's mass market appeal will see it hanging around the charts for an age - think of it as the James Blunt of gaming. But better, obviously.