I'd like to start by making the preface that this is an opinion thread. MY opinion in this thread will not gel with the majority opinion of members of this site. Feel free to post alternate opinions to my own, and to point out why mine may be incorrect, but leave personal attacks out of it please.
I picked up a DS Lite a few months back for an extremely cheap price. My gaming time of late has been limited (along with my VGC post count) due to University and work. As such, I was hoping to add some portable gaming into the mix to supplement my gaming hobby at times when I would otherwise be doing nothing such as train trips etc.
I picked it up with FFXII: Revenant Wings and New Super Mario Brothers, and have played a few other titles intermittently. I'd like to acknowledge right now that this means I have barely scratched the surface of the DS's library, and this is a preliminary opinion piece only. Whilst I am not implying that the DS is a poor form of entertainment, it has not grabbed me to nearly the extent I believed it would. I find it's RPG's difficult to get into, it holds little allure as a form of entertainment beyond that of convenience and it overall would not have been worth it had I paid full price for the console. Indeed, the reason I got it so cheap is because the person I bought it from (an ex-girlfriend) got bored with it very quickly.
New Super Mario Bros is easily the best game I have played on the console, and I will say that I have enjoyed it a lot. That said, it is a classic Mario platformer and not enjoying it really would be the final straw. Even saying this, the title hasn't grabbed me as I thought it would. It occured to me that perhaps I just don't like portable gaming, but this holds little water as I still play Pokemon and Jurassic Park on my old Gameboy Pocket.
But last week I got the pleasure of borrowing my friend's PSP. With it, I got FFVII: Crisis Core and GoW: CoO. This my friends, is what portable gaming is supposed to be. An epic experience that fits in your pocket. I found the console to be aesthetically far more pleasing, and better controlled. I'm giving serious thought to purchasing one of my own. From my admittedely limited software experience with each console, I must say that I find the PSP to be FAR superior for my own tastes. Some may call me a graphics whore as I own the most proven graphically-enabled console to date (Xbox 360), but as I said, I still play my Gameboy, and I also still play my Nintendo 64.
I'm am severely tempted to sell the DS, but I am looking to rent The World Ends With You and thinking of waiting for Chrono Trigger. If those two titles can't save my perception of the console, nothing will.
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