PSP vs. Nintendo DS

[Dantez of Divinity]

Please. The DS to the DS is like comparing Pong to your computer. The PSP is more than just a hand held game console. I have one so I'm not just bashing it for fun. I have to say I have great games for both systems and I find the PSP much more fun. The PSP is pulling hand held gaming devices out of the age of 2d and God awful 3d graphics and text character speaking. Nintendo did a good job in making the game business into the public’s eyes with its first system but in hand held Sony has them beat.

More features
More computing power in a small device
Internet connection
Larger screen
Better presented games
Main stream games with better plots (For real Nintendogs and Guitar Hero on a hand held?)

Hand Helds need to pull into the future for a target audience that wants more and the DS isn't living up to that.

64 to PS1
Game Cube to PS2
Wii to PS3

Sony is woo'n their target audience more.

[Ningacom]

Please. The DS to the DS is like comparing Pong to your computer.

Confusing error 1

I have one so I'm not just bashing it for fun.

... well that's the idea. You tend to support gaming system you own

The PSP is pulling hand held gaming devices out of the age of 2d and God awful 3d graphics and text character speaking.

you speak of the days when gaming was in it's prime.

Nintendo did a good job in making the game business into the public’s eyes with its first system but in hand held Sony has them beat.

Confusing error 2

More features

Most of which have nothing to do with gaming

More computing power in a small device

yet, it still sux

Internet connection

which has nothing to do with gaming

Larger screen

oh wow, it's like 2 inches bigger.

Better presented games

B/c presentation has everything to do with gaming

Main stream games with better plots (For real Nintendogs and Guitar Hero on a hand held?)

Come again? I'm a simple minded teen, define main stream games

Hand Helds need to pull into the future for a target audience that wants more and the DS isn't living up to that.

or perhaps they need to focus on the GAMING, and less on being half gaming system, half Ipod.

64 to PS1
Game Cube to PS2
Wii to PS3

64 > PS1
PS2 > GC (I'll give you that)
Wii > PS3

Sony is woo'n their target audience more.

by audience, you mean sonyfags

[Dantez of Divinity]

I could say the same to you Nintendo fanboy. The DS is noting more than a game boy with 2 screens.

[Koji]

This kind of argument looks familiar...where have I seen it...?

This will never be one-sided. Some people would always like the PSP and some people would always like the DS because different people have their own opinions on what a handheld should be like.

My personal opinion (and I can see Dantez of Divinity is leaning there too) is that the better handheld console is able to compact the home console into a portable handheld device. The PSP mimics the PS2 by playing music, movies from disc, build controls in almost the same style, and uses a fast processor to closley mimic the PS2's graphics.

The DS went the Nintendo way of being original. Like how the Wii introduced the wireless Wiimote style of gaming, the DS introduce the touch screen and microphone style of gaming. It is a different console entirely from GBA/GC. And you'd rather get that than sticking with the past way of gaming.

So people get a PSP as carrying their PS2 around in a nutshell, and people get a DS to have a brand new console. But in the end, both should have that one aspect from the old way of gaming. And that was to have fun playing the games, no matter what power the console might have or what features it's got. Plus different games appeal to different gamers, and they would like the console with their favorite game because they know that it is THAT CONSOLE that they had fun playing on.

[final keyblade]

i like both of them......is that weird?

[TheMuffinMan]

Also, PSP's games suck.

No, the PSP's games don't all suck, just the ones that he listed.

Sony is woo'n their target audience more.

You mean woo'n them to sleep with the lack of games?

[Dantez of Divinity]

The DS is a super Nintendo compacted, given a second screen, given a retard pen thing, has games that can be confused with games on the 64, Super, and Nintendo if you don't see the second screen, and remake that has a shorter battery life than the original and even smaller amount of protection.

Strip the PSP and the DS of all its bound features you get a diet version of a PS2 and a Game boy.
YouTube - PSP vs DS
YouTube - sony psp vs nintendo ds lite

PSP looks better has a presentation for games (Which matters because it needs to keep the person playing)

PSP Games
Prince of Persia
Final Fantasy games most notable 1, 2 and 7 CC, Tactics
God of War
Star Wars Battle Front Rouge Squadron
Metal Gear Solid
Silent Hill
Sports games that actually seem familiar in game play
Daxter
Naruto Clash of Ninja
Medal of Honor
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
Tekken
Jeanne D' Arc
Bleach Heat of the Soul
Loco Roco
Initial D
Grand Theft auto
Sid Mieir's Pirates
Socom
Field Commander
Dead Head Fred

All have excellent presentation, game play, and graphics. Online play is much easier on the PSP. Added with the features it is not even close to failure.

Go back to playing spin of games of Mario, Metroid and Legend of Zelda.

[Domon Kasshu]

This "retard pen thing" you mention is not for the DS alone. Stylus' are used worldwide for various products, heck I'm using one right now instead of my mouse. Stop being such a Sony faggot, the PSP is inferior to the DS when it comes to games, marketing, popularity and age appeal.

Oh and uh, more than half of those games suck balls.

[Ningacom]

Originally Posted by Dantez of Divinity

that has a shorter battery life than the original and even smaller amount of protection.

HA! This made me laugh, b/c it's ironic coming from someone defending PSP. Turn on a DS and a PSP on full sound and the PSP will be dead in a 1/2, where a DS will last at LEAST 1 1/2. Also, I've dropped my DS on concrete 4 times, it still works. The PSP on the other hand will break on carpeted floors (not bs, it's happened)

PSP looks better has a presentation for games (Which matters because it needs to keep the person playing)

Unless they don't care

Final Fantasy games most notable 1, 2 and 7 CC, Tactics
God of War
Star Wars Battle Front Rouge Squadron
Daxter
Naruto Clash of Ninja
Bleach Heat of the Soul

these are the crappy games that I knew. Also, FF1 + 2 + Tactics are remakes

Sports games that actually seem familiar in game play

I laughed again :3

All have excellent presentation, game play, and graphics. Online play is much easier on the PSP. Added with the features it is not even close to failure.

All of which (excluding game play, which usually sux on the PSP) have NOTHING to do with gaming

Go back to playing spin of games of Mario, Metroid and Legend of Zelda.

Sounds good. I'm going to go play New Super Mario Brothers (awsome), Metroid Prime Hunters (awsome), and LoZ PH (I'm gonna go with.........awsome)

[final keyblade]

Originally Posted by Dantez of Divinity

Tekken
Final Fantasy games most notable 1, 2 and 7 CC, Tactics

those games are good

btw stop ur hate rant on nintendo

[TheMuffinMan]

Originally Posted by Dantez of Divinity

Go back to playing spin of games of Mario, Metroid and Legend of Zelda.

Why, so you can play spin-offs of GTA, God of War, and FF7, then nothing else? The only games the majority of PSP owners will ever bother to play?

Also, funny thing you link to a C|Net comparison of the handhelds from 2006, because they did a re-take on that review just last week:

Prizefight: Sony PSP Slim vs. Nintendo DS Lite video - CNET TV

Ho ho ho.

[All-Star Gamer]

I own both. And let me tell you, the PSP has been stupifingly unimpressive when it comes to games.

Sure, it's got great graphics, sound, and what not, but I only enjoyed playing a rough number of three games on that system while on my DS, I have been playing like 20-30 different games, all of them immersive and enjoyable. Truely works of gameing art. In comparison, all the PSP games seem to attempt is captivate you by art alone and graphics alone. Sorry, but that doesn't work for me. I like my games to have fun gameplay and story elements.


And don't go dissing the touch screen. It adds a level of play and depth that I never had on the PSP. I've loved games that I played on the DS that I wouldn't have if they were on the PSP.


As far as I'm concerned, the DS is where it's at. I'm more likely to put it into my pocket when going out the door than My PSP, because with it's touch screen and game selection, I know it won't let me down. It's met and exceeded all of my expectations while the PSP has been nothing but a big let down.

[.:[Kazuma]:.]

Well I'm getting psp cause I want an all in one device. Plus I want God of War, Monster Hunter, CC, RC. But the DS does kick ass in games I can say that.

[Zoidberg!]

Not that I don't like the DS, because I do, but I'm concentrating on getting a psp right now. I have more than enough to get a DS, but, meh.

Either way, each has a fair share of great games.

[TheMuffinMan]

I wouldn't ever say the PSP is't worth having, in it's own right it's a great electronic, but I practically can't even consider it something for portable gaming. When you're using the PSP in my experience you're like tied to an electrical socket with the charger, otherwise the battery just goes to shit unless you're using for only short periods.

When I'm out with a PSP I don't feel like I've got a game with me, you don't treat your PSP like it's for games, it's an expensive electronic that you have to protect and be paranoid about and shit, worrying about it breaking if you drop it, the screen getting scratched from shit in your pocket, someone stealing it, or the analog stick breaking. It's not fun carrying my PSP around, it's a chore, the PSP practically makes you not use it like a portable, but at home..next to an electrical socket..with a charger...in your bed or recliner. And, hell, if I'm at home then why is it a portable? I might as well be playing the same exact types of games on a TV (which in most cases, you can find a port or a game from the exact same series on the PS2 as you can get on the PSP, only the PS2 actually has good controls [FFS, lack of a second analog stick])

The DS protects itself, the dual screens don't just function for gameplay, it gives the device a laptop like shell functionality, so it can just close itself and then it's a monster, nothing is getting to those screens, and the outside can take the wear and tear of a boulder. So, the DS to me is an actual portable, I can take it places and not worry about it being broken or scratched or any of it's parts coming off, and the games themselves are something that I can just flick the power button on, jump right into it, then jump right out when I need my attention to be on the real world again. To me, calling the PSP "lol it leik a console" is not a good thing unless you just like to be wowed by graphics for 5 minutes and then have the actual game bore you to death, it's not a compliment to the device, it's a chore and it's a console in every sense of the word, you're tethered to a wall in your house playing it.