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naznatips on 25 May 2009
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sapient said:

I have to disagree with most posters that say PSP software is crap compared to DSi. I would say MOST DS software is shovelware. Biggest selling games for DS are the ones aimed at little girls (imagine brand, cooking mama etc.) , children (nintendogs, petz, etc.) or older people (brain games).

For core gamers DS library is not very extensive. It is mostly nintendo FIRST party software and, lets face it, Nintendo brings out 1 game for each franchise every few years. There are some really good games but like PSP library a lot of them are PORTS.

As far as innovative controls are concerned not a whole lot of games are purely stylus based and some are easier to play with normal controls (IF it is supported).

My PSP gets a lot more time than my DS. I like the PSP mechanism of puting the console in sleep mode. I also like the fact that I can use PSP FAT's batetry with it to increase battery life.

I like the DS mostly for its ability to plays my GBA games as well. DSi can NOT do that.

Do you really own a DS? You seem to know nothing about it.

You put it to sleep by flipping it closed. There aren't "dual control schemes" on DS games like there are on some Wii games. Games that use the touchscreen always use it. There is very little that plays better without it, and a lot that plays much better with it (Zelda, The World Ends With You, Elite Beat Agents, Canvas Curse, any shooter, etc.).

For someone with an (admittedly very bad) JRPG in their avatar to complain about the core games on the DS versus the PSP is laughable. The amount of great core DS games trumps the game library of every system in existence. While there are absolutely great games on the PSP that rival the best on the DS, the tradeoff is like 1 great PSP game per 4 or 5 great DS games. It's not even close.

There are 2 genres I agree that the PSP has an advantage in. Racing and shooting. Racing it controls better and has more games. Shooting it just has more games, but controls much worse.

Any other genre I can name you at least 3 great DS games for every PSP game. I use my PSP signifficantly more than my DS, but for its media functions and as an anime player. In games this is not even a reasonable discussion. It's like a giant joke.