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The Question of the Epoch ...
Nintendo DS or Sony Playstation Portable ?
The DS has innovative design (dual screens, touch screen, microphone ) and games that take advantage, along with many educational cartridges, and some backward compatibility to GBA. It comes in colours, yay! I have a GBA cartridge (Movie Player Advance) that would let we load media in with CF cards.
The PSP has a huge pretty screen and some compelling titles, including some new titles that may be language switchable (FF, FF II, according to IGN). It comes in black, like Ford intended. The PSP has UMD rom and MemoryStick rw capabilities. There is cool sync software for Mac OS X.
Nintendo is hacker-agnostic and generally targets all products toward youths, so there are almost no (1 so far?) 'mature' rated titles. Sony is evil, and uses lots of DRM and other nonsense to annoy hackers, who prevail anyway. Sony's hardware is substantially nicer. There are many many cool titles available for either platform in JP versions. Both have wifi and some wlan and internets capabilities like networked play. The price points are only 50 bucks apart.
So, that's what I know, but what do y'all say?
The DS has innovative design (dual screens, touch screen, microphone ) and games that take advantage, along with many educational cartridges, and some backward compatibility to GBA. It comes in colours, yay! I have a GBA cartridge (Movie Player Advance) that would let we load media in with CF cards.
The PSP has a huge pretty screen and some compelling titles, including some new titles that may be language switchable (FF, FF II, according to IGN). It comes in black, like Ford intended. The PSP has UMD rom and MemoryStick rw capabilities. There is cool sync software for Mac OS X.
Nintendo is hacker-agnostic and generally targets all products toward youths, so there are almost no (1 so far?) 'mature' rated titles. Sony is evil, and uses lots of DRM and other nonsense to annoy hackers, who prevail anyway. Sony's hardware is substantially nicer. There are many many cool titles available for either platform in JP versions. Both have wifi and some wlan and internets capabilities like networked play. The price points are only 50 bucks apart.
So, that's what I know, but what do y'all say?
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Thanks!
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The Sony has the Sony "thing" -- sleek, black, sexy, and nifty touches like the wireless goodies. Plus, if you're a fan of Sony-specific titles, well there you are. That said, I've always found Nintendo titles to be more fun. We have an old Xbox (refurb'ed, was very cheap with games) and a Wii and the Wii is just a hoot, even if the games aren't the uber-est.
The DS screens scratch pretty easily, IIRC, and not all of the titles use its interface to the fullest extent, but I think its form factor is actually superior for its intended use and I'd bet it'd be honestly more fun to own. I've always seen twiddlers attracted to PSP's, FWIW, folks who like to tweak, patch, and accessorize, and I think it lends itself to that.
So...yeah. They're both kinda cool :)
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Someone mentioned that the DS screens scratched easily, which might be true, but I bought a $3 screen protector when I bought my DS, used the DS without it for a few days then stuck them on, and there was no appreciable difference in how the touchscreen reacted.
The PSP is shiny and has lots of random cool features, but for something that's just plain fun, the DS, like the Wii, is the way to go.
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I have a pink DS Lite with a Hello Kitty skin. It's pretty much the most adorable thing ever. Can you "cute out" a PSP? I don't think so.
Besides the games are soooo, soooo retardedly fun.