Should I buy a PSP or a DS tommorrow?

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Side by Side comparison.

Advantages PSP:

Does more than play games. You can watch UMD movies. Download and play music, hook it up to your computer and transfer files etc.

Has Better Graphics.

Does Racers and Sports games better.

Both PSP and DS has online support and both have good communities from what I have seen. So it's a draw there. Though the DS does have a built in Mic so this could be considered an advantage.

The downsides to the PSP are as follows.

Load Screens. Even on a newer PSP these can take a minute to load and in some games you are going to be seeing alot of tham.

Game Library. Technically the DS has an advantage here especially if you are an RPG fan.

Battery Life. A brand new PSP at max will get 6-7 hours of battery life with everything maxed out. adjust a few things and you could get 10 but that is max.

DS Advantages

Nintendo. Well they make solid games if you don't mind Mario, Zelda and Pokemon.

Battery Life. All systems go for 10 hours and maybe longer with a few adjustments.

Game Library. The DS has more games than the PSP.

Of course there is the down side.

The Graphics. For the most part the PSP wins here.

Game Prices. While there are some good cheap games alot of the best games will run you 25-30 bucks and some of these are a year or two old. By comparison PSP games go down faster. (Though it is important to note with the exception of a few games that are released on both systems PSP games on average can run $5-$10 more than a DS game on launch. There are exceptions to this rule S-E games for instance.)


Also the Touch Screen can be an advantage if you want to play games in a new way.

Price wise the DS is the cheaper system. You can get one brand new for 130.00 (excluding tax) where in areas a PSP brand new will run you 170.00 (excluding tax)