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Difference in Handheld Gaming Machines
precisionk
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So the last time I owned a handheld video game machine, it was the original brick Gameboy.
I figured it was time to get back into some handheld gaming goodness since I am going on vacation and need something to tide me over on the flight.
Issue is I have no idea what to choose, PSP or DS?
I guess I am looking for some opinion on what may be the better buy along with some must have games for either system.
Personally, I am a strategy man when it comes to games. Fallout 3, Blood Bowl and Champions online were my latest three acquisitions PC wise if it helps with recommendations.
I figured it was time to get back into some handheld gaming goodness since I am going on vacation and need something to tide me over on the flight.
Issue is I have no idea what to choose, PSP or DS?
I guess I am looking for some opinion on what may be the better buy along with some must have games for either system.
Personally, I am a strategy man when it comes to games. Fallout 3, Blood Bowl and Champions online were my latest three acquisitions PC wise if it helps with recommendations.
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The DS has a lot of fun games like Mario and Luigi and Scribblenauts. It's pretty ok graphically, but not great.
Just depends on what floats your boat. Go to GS's website and look through the games list in your desired genres and see what makes you drool more.
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That said DS is just amazingly fun with some games using the stylus.... but i'd have to say I use my PSP more.
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Having said that, I've put 75 hours into FFTA2. The DS is what I pull out when I don't really feel like turning my brain on, and it's excellent for it.
At this point it comes down to the library. Look at the games you want to play, or the type of games you want to play, and see which system wins.
There are a few other things in there, like seondary features and battery life. PSP wins features, DS wins battery life.
But really, it's all about the games.
So much shit you can do. I...uh...actually used the wifi on the psp to connect to my wireless router, got a winamp plugin that allowed winamp to act as a server, then used my psp to control winamp on my computer...see, the computer is hooked to a stereo/speakers in both the bedroom and living room. I could be in the bedroom and change my music.
...well, I thought it was cool.
was gonna say, PSP gets beat out by the DS if this is your deal breaker
the PSP is nice, but i have easily 3x as many games for my DS
I concur with this unfortunately. Advance wars is what I would probably rate the highest, but the pc has about loads of strategy titles that I enjoyed more than anything on a handheld (which is such a shame).
if you love playing a dumbed down MMO by yourself, Monster Hunter is great. Me? I thought it was boring as hell. It had no purpose at all and they stripped out the online component which is what made the original MH on PS2 a fun game, without it its just not fun at all. I know somone is going to say "But you can do blah blah blah to play it online!" and that's true, but it takes a lot of effort to do and a special router dongle and program and its a hassle.
Also PSP is a fun system to a point, i personally enjoy my DS a lot more, i just simply own more games on it and enjoy far more stuff that the DS has to offer. The DS has tons of great strategy and RPG titles, it's pretty much the only place you can still get that old-school RPG feel that (At least i.) missed a lot. It also has Zelda on it, as well as the excelly Final Fantasy remakes. A lot of the stylus centric games like Trauma Center are also increadibly fun to play.
The PSP has better graphics, somewhere in between the PS1 and PS2, leaning more toward the PS2 side in quality. Overall production value is often higher on this system because the hardware is better. It does have some fun games, like the Killzone one, a few MGS Strategy style games that i enjoyed. Overall i just found that its library did not have nearly as much to offer, despite the fact that it is a great system hardware wise, it just isn't as fun. I actually ended up selling my PSP recently because i just wasn't using it anymore and was not buying games on it any longer.
That is my opinion on having owned both systems for years.
I think I have more DS games than any other system and I've been buying systems since the NES.
Hrm, Dissidia is deep like the ocean, and in spite of being composed entirely of Final Fantasy fan service, it's based on a pretty solid gameplay system.
In contrast to other postings here, i don't think you have to be either 15, or Japanese to enjoy Monster Hunter. It's most definitely a game of skill, and ability to read your opponents (the monsters), and requires learning of strategies and preparation. The singleplayer is definitely engaging and fun; if you don't have others to play alongside, there's plenty of content that you can go through.
Killzone liberation has already been mentioned, and is great- again it's difficult, though, and Ace Combat X is pretty good too.
I mean, Civ Revolution, SimCity (like, proper simcity), UniWar, Galcon, Strongholds, Vikings, Mecho Wars, Orions, Reign of Swords, Lemonade Tychoon, The Sims 3, Sally's Spa...
Oh and Ace Combat is coming to the iPhone since it was mentioned.
If you want something lighter than Monster Hunter with similar gameplay, Phantasy Star Portable on PSP and Phantasy Star Zero on DS (is this out yet?) may be your cup of tea.
Even with Monster Hunter aside, I've spent more time playing my PSP than my DS, but both systems have great games. PSP has more modern style games (like Soul Calibur and Tekken) while the DS has more nostalgic and quirky games (like Metroidvanias and Mario games), though both systems have standout games that really push the capabilities of their respective systems (like Mario Kart DS and Monster Hunter on PSP). Currently, I'm enjoying Scribblenauts on my DS and Dissidia on my PSP. There's no reason why you can't enjoy both, especially with the older systems being so cheap. For a cost of a DSi or an upcoming PSPGo or a current PSP-3000, you can get both a DS Lite (or phat) and a PSP-1000/2000 series used at any gamestop.
My solution is just to get both. Start up a gaming backlog. Stop playing Halo and CoD4 and WoW and all of those other timesinks and enjoy gaming on the go with a decent portable system.
EDIT: By the way, Disgaea 2 just came out on PSP. Also Blood Bowl is out for both DS and PSP, but it may be hard to find. The PSP one is much better, IMO, but different strokes/folks and all that.
Crisis Core is pretty good. FFT has been mentioned, however there is a pretty big slowdown in the battles that makes it pretty irritating compared to the original (you can get used to it though). Disgaea has also been mentioned.
One feature I really like about the PSP is how you can just pause a game and turn the thing completely off, and then turn it back on later and just unpause the game and continue from wherever. Wish my DS could do that (it can't right...? I'm not just a moron who didn't figure this out am i?)
You're not actually turning the PSP off, just putting it into sleep mode (assuming you're just flicking the power switch). And yes, the DS does that if you close it (assuming you weren't in a game that uses the WFC constantly). Both will run down the battery at a slow pace like that, so don't forget to resume play or hook it up to the AC adapter. The DS has the slowly flashing power light to remind you, but I haven't seen an indicator on my PSP 1000.
Personally, my main beef with the DS is the location of the power switch on the Lite model. I tried bringing it to work for some relief on breaks, but the damn thing kept getting toggled while it was in my pocket. Getting through a pain in the ass floor on the item world only to find out I've lost all progress in it?
I've left a DS on and closed for nearly a week and still had it run the game when I opened it.
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While there are some reasons a PSP is a good system too if strategy is your thing the DS is a great system. As much as some people thought it was a gimmick the dual screens are great for the genre as you can see a unit's stats on the top and the game on the bottom (or vice versa).
Really though, I just didn't clue in that the PSP went into a low power mode instead of turning off.
The DSi is going to be pretty amazing once the shop carries enough titles to make it nice, but I imagine that if you haven't been on the console scene for a while that the DS Lite would offer more options.
I do love my PSP for all the reasons stated above, but keep in mind that Sony hates reverse compatibility. The new systems are going to make all of these limited formats worthless in one generation, while Nintendo tends to try to keep some symbolance of reverse compatibility on each generation.
In the end, I'd just decide upon the games. I got a PSP originally just for FF Tactics, and it was worth every penny. I also bought a DS Lite around the same time. I switch between the two regularly on my global travels.
The Gameboy and DS lines are reverse compatible (at least, until the DSi came out), but they are a separate market that Nintendo almost had a monopoly on for many years (Lynx, GameGear, and other outliers aside). The PSPs can play PS1 games that have been converted and downloaded to a memory stick, as well (check the recent releases on the PSN for Final Fantasy VII and Metal Gear Solid). Sony doesn't "hate" reverse compatibility... as far as I know, they are trying to find ways to make it marketable through the PSN Store.
The OP doesn't sound like he/she is really interested in reverse compatibility in the slightest, anyway.
Woah, simmer down tiger. I was only referring to the hand held systems. And while that reverse compatibility is slowly coming to the psp, the fact remains that Nintendo has offered the ability to go back one generation several times, which allows for more overall games to choose from. Is the vast nintendo library as nice as the wonderful graphics on the PSP? I guess that would be up to the individual gamer and what they would prefer to play. As I stated before, I have both and love them all, even if my DS lite gets more total game time.
I've never understood the militant nature of defending consoles. They all have their flaws. Choose via what games you like.
But I love to primarily because I love old school point and click adventure games, which the DS tends to do pretty well. It's really the only place to find certain types of games aside from PC and some (poor) console ports.
I call everyone Tiger. Or Sport. I'm a gym coach. Born of a long line of gym coaches. It's what we are.
This kinda ticked me off, especially when I heard that the new PSP they are going to release will be using a different format than those crazy minidisks, meaning my library I re-purchased to play portable will be worthless if my old PSP breaks.
Still, they have good games, so what can you do?
If I go buy a PS3, right now, will it play PS2 games? No? Then it has limited back compatibility and doesn't count, or then you have to say the XBox 360 is back compatible, which means they all are and it's a moot issue.
I wasn't really speaking about portables because that's not back compatibility with the PSP per se, since the PSP isn't a successor to the Playstation. More like 'cross-compatibility'. Like a Mac playing PC games.
If we go with consoles/portables with full support for the preceding generation's library, this gen has the Wii and the DS lite. If you want to talk about all the compatibility options the current generation has, the Wii supports almost all the generations in some form. I mean, I don't own a Wii and have no current plans to get one despite my desire for the virtual console, but Sony got the bandwagon rolling with the PS2 being back compatible and then jumped off the bandwagon. For some reason.
At any rate, claiming that "The Playstations as a whole have been ridiculously reverse compatible." is pretty disingenuous since only one of their consoles has been fully back compatible.
EDIT: Note that the Wii can play NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, SMS, Genesis, TG16 and probably some others I can't remember. Nintendo is handing Sony it's ass in several ways this gen, not the least of which is follow through.