What was so great about the 7th gen was that the competitors (sans PS3 vs 360) were so different from each other; DS and PSP were almost nothing alike, nor was the Wii vs the HD Twins.

I'm not a portable player and had neither, so I'm not sure which I'd pick; DS has Nintendo games, but PSP looks more to my taste design wise and has Monster Hunter.

The fuck kind of supermarket is giving away PSPs?  My supermarket doesn't even have free samples.

My supermarket is giving out free Covid19 for all!

The DS had a much stronger overall library, including a metric ton of Dragon Quest, Pokemon, and countless others, so that's what I'm going with. The downside to the DS was that I didn't like how touch controls were made a focal point of the two Zelda games. They're still good games, but I'd have killed for conventional controls. The ability to draw a path for the boomerang was pretty fun though. I also played a lot of Mario Kart DS, and Infinite Space, Platinum's second game, was a rare gem.

The PSP was pretty good, too. My wife got me mine after my DS got stolen. Had a solid library of RPGs like Crisis Core, Valkyria Chronicles 2, and especially FF Tactics: War of the Lions was probably my favorite PSP game overall. The clearer translation and redone cut scenes made a world of difference though the load times were a little rough.

That was genuinely funny.

I got my PSP Street new in 2012 and had great times with it - Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Jeanne d'Arc, Persona 3, Splinter Cell, God of War, SSX, Archibald's Adventures, Shadow of Destiny and moar. Playing Full Throttle through SCUMM on PSP was an awesome experience. Using it as a media player was great too until I got a smartphone. Can't say anything about DS, Nintendo has too kiddy presentation for my taste.

I went full digital and had tons of games. Only a few physical discs actually let you install at all--not that it mattered to me. The games that did allow you to install only allowed partial info to make them load faster.

Can't remember how much they cost back then but I never thought it was too expensive. I'll break my system out later today and see what the sizes were. I feel like it was rare for a game to exceed 1 GB and most were like 300MB. I also think battery life was about 3 hours no matter what. But again, going from memory.

Avalon Code, Solatorobo, Blood of Bahamut, The World End With You, Rune Factory, Sigma Harmonic, Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans are very different, more unique than other jrpgs on ds

Etrian Odyssey? The World End With You DS have the best gameplay compared to other versions.

I went full digital too for the price if a memory stick duo adapter from china, na mean.