Nintendo seems to be the only company at this point in time, that can juggle more then one hardware and sell it well.

Sony hasn't abandoned the PSP. Think of the trailers for Resistance Retribution, or consider the great games on the system: Jeanne D'Arc, Vice City Stories, MGS Portable Ops, or God of War Chains of Olympus.

Sure, you can critique UMD and the quasi-proprietary memory format (though prices have dropped). But Sony did something smart by making the PSP an all-in-one media device, with no storage limitations - plug in your 8GB flash, you can play your entire audio collection. Plug it into your computer, you can access whatever you want (wish I could do that with my DS). Click on the WLAN, you can surf the web. If I had one gripe, it's the lack of touch controls, but PSP2 should take care of that.

Troll thread.

on the bright side the psp's library undeniably surpasses any non-nintendo handheld in both quantity and quality...except the nomad but that's more of a gray area,
plus even as support decays nothing is stopping me from enjoying all the fantastic games that are already out on the psp

While I'm with the part, I disagree a lot about the second. I like my PSP.

No the DS has a touch sensitive screen which means it can do many interactive things far better than the PSP.

Sony put their $$ into the graphics and CPU pipelines and have a very powerfull graphics and CPU - it can do better graphics, it's practically a Portable PS2.

It's like the Wii and the PS3 where sony spend $ on graphics and CPU and nintendo spent $ developing a better interface - Nintendo out classed the competition in an unexpected way again ! - I think the user interface controls are very important - the PSP uses a crappy xy force button thing - the same used to be common on  laptops untill the touch pad's came along - the DS goes one step better with a touch sensitive screen.

The cost to produce is important, DS is much cheaper to manufacture and to buy, while the leading edge chipset in PSP will take alot longer to reduce price and even if it was cheaper would still not have a touch interface.

Here is a marketing feature comparison - if I included multimedia then PSP would get one extra point but people use Ipod etc for multimedia for a game console and gaming it's not so important.

        price   touch   graphics

DS        1         1         0

PSP      0         0         1

Score DS=2 , PSP=1

PSP is doing huge sales getting over 40 Million is incredible so why be concerned about the DS sure it's over 90 but does not mean PSP is failing in any way it's doing fine as a combo multimedia/game device.

ya know the psp has just never appealed to me. i remember thinking it would dominate the ds but thankfully that didn't happen. they just don't have the games to get me interested but if they ever do, then i would buy one

I don't know, the psp may not be well supported now, but it most certainly is the most successful non-nintendo handheld, which is an accomplishment in itself, since the psp has a good chance, or an outmost certainty of outselling the ps3.

Until a couple months ago, the psp had more highly rated games than the DS, which dwarfs it's library total by alot. I think that speaks volumes for the psp's library.

Another problem I have, as many have mentioned, is the UMD drive. But it's not just the drive I dislike, it's also the discs themselves. Sony did not build them to last, as I have half of my collection with the plastic covering coming off. It doesn't make them unplayable, but more dust gets on the UMD's themselves, and it is unnecessary and annoying.

the psp is better than the ds....

@Cheebee: Otherwise we'd have the standard Central-European price, but we have our own importers, that take their own share in between (and 22% sales tax).

@SlorgNet: It's not about what games already are on the system, but what kind of support Sony is giving for the system currently.
Also, the media functionality is one of the things that's hurting PSP, since people buy it for other purposes than to play PSP games.