chichi-101 said:
I'm not limiting this "uproar" (dramatic... I know) to this post, nor this website only, but I see thats a bit unfair. Its quite annoying though having people state that the DS is only for kids, considering I'm in my 20's, and love my DS. I was being just as baseless(IMO) as the people who defended the "DS is only for kids" statement that has been flying around this post. I'm want to honestly know though what makes the PSP so much more "mature"? Seriously. |
I kind of have to agree with this person, I see many people with in the 20-30 age range with DS' here in the UK from business people on the trains to someone simply playing it in the park, we've even had stories of bus drivers being fired because they play them while driving. When someone says the DS is for kids the sight of what I've seen makes it laughable somewhat, games like Professor Layton, Brain Training and Hotel Dusk are popular because of this group, I've seen some people of the same ages with PSPs but I've yet to see as many people in the same age range with them as compared to DS' and in fact I see more teenagers and young adolescents with them who are ironically a younger group in age average.
Many kids may have a DS but to constantly label kids as the main market is being close minded as games like Layton and such would never sell to them, the DS userbase if anything is more an evened out demographic with a broad age range. Even if you try and bring in Mario and co these games aren't predominantly kids games as a broad selection of people buy them which is the example of the DS approach, it's broad for ages 5-90, anyone can buy it and find what they're looking for which can't really be said of the PSP, I'm 24 and own both a PSP and DS along with a Wii/360 and PS3.
