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PSP vs DS one year later.

1up.com — With E3 '06 coming, and the next gen console wars about to take off; 1up.com takes a closer look at the handheld battle between Nintendo's DS, and Sony's PSP.

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  • MightyGiant, on 10/12/2007, -6/+46My car has a built in toaster. Therefore it's better than your car.
  • iluvatar, on 10/12/2007, -5/+35sounds to me like you should get an ipod. Other than the games, an ipod does everything you're talking about with one major difference: $300 for an ipod gets you the unit and 30G of storage whereas with the psp it gets you the unit and a 1G memory stick.

    Get a nano and with the money you save you can buy a DS
  • owmyshoe, on 10/12/2007, -8/+34I don't really believe that Nintendo is behind in multiplayer gaming. Console online gaming, yes but look at how many people are online with their DS's. And maybe it's just only my friends and I, but we've spent hours playing super smash bros, mario kart (double dash and DS), and not to mention mario golf. Nintendo has delivered original content time and time again, it's no wonder the DS is exceling overseas and here, even if marginally. What has sony offered aside from a few ported games, and a slew of UMD movies, which I might add are doing terribley, many studios have stopped producing them.
  • Branchex, on 10/12/2007, -10/+35The wi-fi games for the DS have never been online before in console incarnations. The PSPs online games have.
  • designbydave, on 10/12/2007, -23/+47i bought my DS a week ago and I'm hooked. Great times. No way i would buy a PSP
  • eridius, on 10/12/2007, -7/+30I picked up both a DS and a PSP right when they came out, and let me tell you, I've logged *far* more time on my DS than I have on my PSP. And rightly so. DS games are innovative, original, and fun. PSP games are pretty much just like PS2 games, except I hate the little thumb joystick on the PSP (for some reason I simply can't be very accurate with it). I just picked up Metroid Prime: Hunters, but I doubt I'm going to buy another PSP game for quite some time.
  • eadnams, on 10/12/2007, -9/+31yeah, I got an ipod with video, and then got a DS for games... the PSP does many things, but doesnt excel at any of them very well (See the hundreds of UMD comments). The iPod does what it does well, and the DS does what it does well. Nintendo is by far the better innovator in gameplay and designs, just more fun, and they have lots of franchises people love right back to childhood...
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+29The DS also doesn't have 60-plus second load times and a dearth of quality games.
  • tafkase7en, on 10/12/2007, -13/+28The PSP has a wider screen, whoopty freaking doo.

    You are a joke.
  • eadnams, on 10/12/2007, -7/+21because people get iPod's, which do what the PSP can do, except games. Sony tried to do too much with one device, and ended up doing them all half-assed. Also, a touch screen opens up many more options in design, and interface... makes a console based RTS possibly doable even... its like having a mouse, a lot more control than a joypad. Not to mention battery life... Who puts a physical motorized drive on a handheld?! Jeeze....
  • philcloh2o, on 10/12/2007, -7/+21Becuase people are buying them to play games on?
  • Scatropolis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15So instead of not clicking on the link, not ignoring the article, you spend minutes writing a post that took way more time then ignoring the story would have. You can't like everything that happens on digg.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+22As a gaming machine, DS wins, hands down.
  • Kloser331, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17I was a huge PSP fanboy. Bought it on day one. Bragged to all my friends. Last month I put it up on eBay because I can't put down my wife's DS. Sorry Sony.

    PSP has everything except for the games.
  • jayf, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18The DS has wireless internet and Nintendo has spearheaded WiFi networks in Tokyo for them.
  • craigtheguru, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16The DS Lite can't come soon enough! I'm buying one day one!
  • nmoline, on 10/12/2007, -10/+20Come on the DS is such a better system and the games prove that. This is a handheld not a console it is all about pick up and play. This is why Gameboy beat game gear and nomad. This is why the DS will continue to dominate the PSP, the PSP is cool for the same reason the ipod is because everyone thinks it looks cool and has to have one, not because it is the best.
  • eadnams, on 10/12/2007, -16/+26"Nobody wants to carry multiple devices around, you can do more with a psp."

    Yes, you can do more, poorly.
  • jdubya, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17i bought a psp and a ds the same day about a month ago- i love my ds and my psp is now on ebay.
  • navster15, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16I suppose that's true Branchex, but should we really be commending Nintendo for finally including a feature that should have been present in earlier iterations of the series? There was no reason from a technical standpoint for them not to include online play on many of their GameCube titles, with Mario Kart: Double Dash!! being the primary offender. I applaud Nintendo's creativity and trailblazing philosophy, but sometimes they stay too much on their own path and refuse to look at what the competition is doing right, namely in this case, Xbox Live.

    BTW, I understand that Nintendo has been recently making huge strides in improving their home console experience, so please don't cite the Revolution or DS as to why I am wrong. All's I'm saying is that even high and mighty Nintendo has made some mistakes.
  • stealthboy, on 10/12/2007, -11/+21DS has beat the PSP, and will continue to dominate. Next?
  • evilhomer2300, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12(Looks up, Nods, Contiunes to play Metroid Hunters on the DS)

    The PSP is good for one other thing as well, Emulating the NES, and SNES, and playing classic Nintendo games, along with GTA. And Other such games.
  • afrazkhan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9
    I have never seen a game for my PSP that I can play online, but let's assume that you're right and there are games out there like this. The difference is that Nintendo built the Nintendo network, or WFC, or whatever they want to call it.

    Like XBox Live, but for free, and not only free, but free everywhere. I can go to the cafe down my road which charges customers for Wi-Fi Internet access and play my DS over their network for free because Nintendo have already paid for it.

    So they've done the work for the publishers (everyone jumps on the Nintendo network, no more hosting your own servers for customers), and they're giving it away for free. Bear in mind that this is the same network that the Revolution will be using.

    Oh and of course there's that "it just works" factor to consider.
  • Abyss_908, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13DS is better because its a game machine. The PSP is like a small tablet PC that doesn't have an HDD or any real storage.
  • AwesomeMonster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12I have booth, and the only game to really capture my attention on the psp was grand theft auto, as for the ds, i had meteos, feel the magic, castlevania, mariokart, and countless others. You can have all the pretty hardware you want but it all comes down to the quality
  • frontpage, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I can see why you were dugg down because the illustration of your point took up so much vertical space in the comments, but God strike me dead if I don't agree with you. The first thing I look for when I hit a site like that is "where is the 'print' link? I do not want to look at all this ***** fluffy ***** everywhere." Then I say "dang" because they don't provide one.
  • LycoLoco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"What can the DS do? Just games..."
    You're ***** kidding me, right? You buy a portable gaming device and then complain how the other one does "Just games"?

    "Why is the competition so strong if one is so much better; besides the game selection."
    Right, because I paid $300 so I can surf the web wirelessly and not play quality games. Gimme a break.
  • cartwheels, on 10/12/2007, -15/+23Un. Freaking. Believeable. It seems as if the Ninty fanboys are out in full force today. I really have no problem with people who prefer the DS over the PSP, or visa versa, but it really irritates me to see any comment defending the PSP buried in a matter of seconds. I've played both a DS and a PSP before, and I have to say I prefer the PSP. Why? It's the experience of a home console, on the go. The presentation is also stunning, on a high resolution widescreen LCD. I have to give props to Nintendo, as the DS is also a fun machine, but personally I enjoy having one portable device for all my needs. I'll have to check out the DS Lite before I can be sure, but in my book the PSP is a better device.

    Now watch as I'm buried into oblivion by Italian plumbers!
  • cambrown99, on 10/12/2007, -15/+22Poor Sony... everyone's abandoning the UMD, your precious Blu-Ray is months behind, everyone hates your music CD's, PS3 might not even make it before Christmas, and now everyone is rooting for Nintendo to clean your clock in the next generation of everything.

    Hey, cheer up, at least you've got Spider-man 3 going for you...
  • Jyuu, on 10/12/2007, -10/+17Both are great consoles.
    I have both but since I got Katamari about a month ago, I'm playing on my PSP more than my DS.
  • Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Yeah--the PSP tried very hard to be cool, but succeeded only in being bland.

    The best aspect of the thing is the aesthetics.
  • noliberalbull, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14Ditto... just sold mine. PSP has a potential to do a lot of things, but it does nothing well, including games. I'm happy with my iPod and DS.
  • owmyshoe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9reading through all of these comments, it's pretty funny to see people talk about how they can play SNES and NES roms on their psp. NES and SNES... aren't those by uh NINTENDO?
  • jayf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8If Sony gave you built-in storage you wouldn't buy MemorySticks.
  • mastercheif, on 10/12/2007, -12/+17The PSP does a lot of things, and it does all of them Terribly.
  • eadnams, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I feel that Nintendo is behind multi-player, but more social, like mario party and such, where you sit together in a room and play together... not the impersonal internet stuff... trying to recreate the feeling arcade at home perhaps?
  • terminalpariah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5We were playing Super Mario Strikers and Smash Bros. in the student centre a couple of weeks ago. A small crowd formed and we started hearing cheers and requests to play.
    Except for one guy, who started to make sarcastic remarks about how Gamecube doesn't even go online. "All I have is a PS2 with Need for Speed... gee, I wish I could play Wario Ware like you guys. :P"
    It's true, we can't play NFS online, but break out a Nintendo multiplayer game in a public place and you're guarenteed to get a crowd. I'd like to see NFS do that.
  • somesthetic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I have a PSP and 10 games. I use my PSP for games. I love my PSP.

    Im happy you enjoy your DS, but some of us like the PSP's lineup and the PSP itself.

    the fact that both systems have sold nearly the same amount in america despite the DS being $100 cheaper should say something about that.
  • hungarianhc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5 Hmmm... read the article.

    I'd say it's fairly unbiased, but perhaps out of date...

    For example, they don't mention the new Zelda for DS, which is obviously huge. Nor do they mention the new Super Mario Bros or even the U.S. release of DS Lite.

    And on the PSP side, they don't mention downloadable PS1 games either.

    Oh well, I'd say the article was, in a word, boring.

    -Kevin
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The thing whereby you can play with people who haven't even boguht the game is pretty awesome too
  • otatop, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7How long did you play with them? I bought a PSP because I got to check one out for about 15 minutes on a lunch break and thought it was pretty sweet. I haven't played anything but Genesis games on it in well over a month. I do use it to watch videos at work, and listen to music during classes, but it doesn't really work that great for gaming. I could have gotten a 60 GB iPod for what I've spent on just the PSP and a 2 gig memory stick.
  • fantasticFlan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Welcome to the internet, please take some time to observe the culture before criticizing our ways.
  • Mizark, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Companies care about profits. Fan-boys care about trashing other options to make their investment more acceptable to them. These things will never change.
  • Avian00, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10aurrea,

    I wish I could give you -20 diggs for your porn comment.
  • cartwheels, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9And finally someone makes a good point. A PSP with built in storage (~10gb at the least) would be a better system. The UMD movie issues could have been completely avoided by this.

    ^see? This is called making intelligent comments, my fellow diggers. I don't agree that DS is better, but I acknowledge the points that are brought up by others anyhow.
  • plarf, on 10/12/2007, -16/+20for me it comes down to the fact that I can do allot more with my psp then a DS. I use it to transfer files to from work like a flash drive,listen to music,watch tvshows, listen to a few RSS audio book feeds,stick digital photos on to show friends and of course play games. Sony's PSP seems to offer me allot more then the DS.
  • spade, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Here's one, what's the battery life between the two systems? Do we have a winner?
  • Mizark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not true.
  • fantasticFlan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4New Mario Brothers, Zelda: the Hourglass of something or other, and Nintendo maintains its completely unthreatened dominance of portable gaming.

    Seriously, I love the hard hitting, pulse pounding, twitch shooters, but those kind of games just don't appeal to me as handhelds.
  • somesthetic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3$40 is too much, but the DS's $35 games are just right?
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