The story in ghost of sparta is 3x better than GOW3. And trust me, it's an amazing looking game on the PSP. 

kind of funny from someone who just posted 2 resident evil games on the 3DS. Listen, what Sony needs is to balance out the type of games they release. People forget that this was their first handheld and one that is about to sell 70 million. All NGP needs is Sony to support it just like they do the PS3. 

I don't see much of a gap between the NGP and the 3DS myself.  Not one that the specs would indicate.  The only reason I'm excited for NGP is that I'm loving PS3's PSN games more and more and the idea of being able to play pixeljunk shooter 1&2 and slam bolt scrappers where ever I may happen to be is orgasm inducing.  Plus some mobile games look cool but they are action games and I would want buttons and a dpad for that.

I just can't be mad at people who don't see that big a difference cause i barely do myself. I'm not entirely sure it boils down to an anti-Nintendo bias though. On a 3-5 inch screen I don't think half these damn shaders and shit will mean anything really.  I only hope that the ability to render more things at once will have a great effect on gameplay at somepoint. Dead Rising 3 NGP here I come.

Well, my point still stands.  In terms of polys and textures (though on both systems textures are hit or miss), yes the 3DS is better, but its not leagues beyond the PSP.  I have noticed a trend in some 3DS games where it seems a lot is pumped into the main character, while the backgrounds and enemies don't see nearly as much love.  Which really isn't that big a deal, I mean the main character is always there onscreen for the whole game.  Also, what makes the biggest difference, which I don't think many people understand, is the improved AA and shaders.  If PSP were able to pull off the same level of AA and shading, then most of you would truly not see much difference in the other departments, either.

I do see a bigger jump when going from 3DS to NGP.  It has a much higher poly count and can pull off better textures.  Of course with a bigger, higher res screen you're going to be able to tell the difference better.  And if it couldn't pull that off, those games would look pretty bad.

I appreciate learning that story and graphics were handled well, but what I meant to ask is if Ghost of Sparta is better than its console brethren, particularly in terms of action and scale.

you are asking me if the PSP is has better action or scale than a PS3 game? 

Scale is an intrinsic part of God of War and action is its bread and butter; I don't expect scale, but action? After a line like "Funny though, the best GOW, the best Resistance, The best Killzone are all from the PSP. "? Yes. Yes, I expect you to tell me it does better action.

Hell, GoW2's action was just as good as GoW3's.

It's the same action, why would it change? In term of scale, well HD vs mobile, go figure. But I am amazed how deep and action pack a PSP game can get. It is truly impressive. 

Let me rephrase this one more time.

In what way besides writing is Ghost of Sparta better than the console trilogy?

Same action,  better story.