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Posted: Dec 19 2007 01:38 am

Yeah...I thought about long arguments defending my side, but got lazy and took the easy way out, I apologize. I wasn't trying to say the DS is godsend, I agree that a lot of games have touch screen effects as almost an after thought (as Castlevania does indeed, still a good game though), but I'm also in the middle of playing Phantom Hourglass which shows exactly how good a game can be when it utilizes all the capabilities of the DS. I'm surely biased towards the Ds, but I really do think it's the better system. One reason being all the things it can do, as opposed to the PSP having...a cheap analog imitation? And I don't claim to know hard facts here, so I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain you'd find the DS outselling the PSP everywhere. Plus the PSP has that stupid minidisc system which just seems like a really big nail in the coffin seeing as how it seems kinda stupid to buy a bunch of minidisc movies for your PSP when you could just buy a portable DVD player which would have a bigger screen anyway. Again, I'm biased towards the DS a bit, but when you only have two options to begin with, you're gonna sound biased either way. And matter of opinion my ass, the PSP has a SHITTY library. Battlefront II and Rogue Battalion or whatever the new one is? Lame. Endless GTA spin-offs that they just release for the PS2 later anyway? Lame. And DS may have a few games available for other Nintendo consoles, but not in the volume that the PSP has; pretty much every game that's come out for the PS2 since the PSP hit has a PSP version. I admit, DS does have a lot of really pointless games as well, but it also has such a large library that you don't even care. I guess it comes down to (for me, since unfortunately I can't force my opinion on the masses, yet) that the DS has at least 11 or 12 games off-hand that I can think of that I either already own or would like to own (not counting GBA games which btw, adds more points to the DS score) whereas the PSP, since it's release has two games I'd maybe play (the GTA ones) and one that I would really like to own (Castlevania.) PSP is weak, DS is strong, the protocol is clear!

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Posted: Dec 19 2007 01:45 am

I can't watch "Heroes" on the DS, so what good does it do me. Crying

Posted: Dec 19 2007 01:51 am

Oh, there's no doubt PSP is being outsold everywhere. The higher initial buy-in killed it, and UMDs were a total failure... I've only ever tried a couple, but you had to turn the volume up to max just to hear it, which worked the battery over pretty quick. Thankfully they put another better battery out for it.

I don't mind the library so much, because there's just enough games I want to try, so I can ignore the stinkers. But I'm kind of easy to please, and having a portable port doesn't bother me at all. It didn't bug me with DS and the same is true of PSP. I know *I* personally wouldn't buy some horse shit like Diner Dash or whatever, but someone would, so it's good that they have access to it, I suppose.

I think this wave of handhelds has been a learning experience for both companies. I hope the next PSP (assuming there is one) has a better D-pad and games on memory sticks instead of UMDs. 0 access time would be keen. For the DS2 or whatever they'll call it, I would like to see a bigger screen layout, improved 3D and real online instead of the friend code thing. Let me access the VC with my DS and play those games, since that's a proven moneymaker and Nintendo is all about the dollar.

Or, for Sega to somehow make a portable and take over the entire handheld market, but we'll see world peace before Sega ever makes a wise and/or profitable business decision.

Posted: Dec 19 2007 08:32 pm

Actually, I'm buying a PSP in February, and getting a few choice games that I really want to try, such as MGSPO and PO+ (with the online), FFT, Exit, Gurumin, shit like that, and imports. A whole lot of imports.

But to be true, outside of a few games, the 2008 PSP release schedule is looking kinda bleak there...

Posted: Dec 19 2007 11:50 pm

Wait, there's a special edition white Samus DS?

Title: Got Mario sodomized Joined: Apr 13 2007 Posts: 78

I got a PSP a little while back. I use it to listen to music since my cd player stopped working and I refuse to buy an iPod. I also have a DS. I haven't played games on either one of them in months though since the PSP doesn't have a wide selection and my DS's screen is worn out and my mic is a bit messed up. I don't really want to get a new one and I only really want to get MGS: Portable Ops + for my PSP since I'm doing fine without playing either one very much. Although I don't at all mind joining in on some Mario Kart or Tetris or MPH, or even some Portable Ops if people are playing.