| Finnbar said: So the ds is inferior to the psp, but the ipod is much better because of flash memory less buttons and a touch screen? |
No, the iPod Touch/iPhone are not better because of flash memory, fewer buttons, and touch screens alone, they are better because they can do everything the PSP can do and more, are comparable in power, and have flash memory, fewer buttons, and touch screens too.
According to Sega, the iPhone is as powerful as the Dreamcast, which at least puts it in the class of the PS2/PSP, something which the DS cannot boast.
When you factor in that the most expensive, professional studio released iPhone games are only $9.99 (and the majority are much cheaper than that), plus (with the iPhone) its music playing, movie watching, Internet browsing, text messaging, cellular call making, and GPS capabilities, well ... what reason is there to own anything else?
I have a DS. Loved it too, but frankly, I haven't touched it once since the day I upgraded to the iPhone. The iPhone's only drawback is that its lack of buttons and capacitive touch screen (which doesn't work with a precision pointer like a stylus) doesn't translate well to all game genres.
Sorry, but the Yahoo! article has it right. Sony kneecapped the PSP just like they did the PS3. It was a trojan horse to prop up UMDs, which was one of Sony's biggest blunders in a long string of failures trying to rule media formats, given they'd already had concrete evidence that the masses didn't want micro optical storage when the market rejected Mini-Discs in favor of solid state MP3 players.
