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outlawauron on 25 May 2009
Strategyking92 said:
As for library, the psp was actually ahead last year:
metacritic 75+ games:

124 ~ psp
143 ~ DS

*inserts lame excuse that reviewers are teh biased against the DS despite hating the PSP*



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MaxwellGT2000 on 25 May 2009
outlawauron said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:
outlawauron said:

The controls may be better, but the PSP has much better games in the shooter genre.

I can't believe I forgot fighting games as well. PSP takes that too.

Played CoD4, CoDW@W, or Metroid Prime Hunters?

Singleplayer Moon is also better then any PSP FPS :

Seriously PSP doesn't compete FPS wise, but like I said TPS wise PSP wins because of library in that genre alone.

I've played Hunters, but not the COD on DS. I thought Hunters controlled terribly to be honest. I put it down after a few trys and frustration.

And I don't believe the DS shooters are any higher acclaimed than the PSP ones.

How can you be bad at hunters it's like PC controls <_<

CoD4 on DS is an extra story to add onto the original and it looks awesome for a DS game.

CoDW@W same as CoD4 with the side story but it also looks better and has a ton of modes.

Moon is a pretty good singleplayer experience and good story.

FPS wise neither system is that highly acclaimed cause FPS buyers play consoles and PC but DS has the better games :\



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The Ghost of RubangB on 26 May 2009

When comparing handhelds, there are 3 things that matter:

1) Battery life.
2) Game library.
3) Game controls.

And of course exclusive game control schemes lead to more exclusive games. The PSP couldn't Elektroplankton itself out of a paper bag. No disrespect to the PSP of course, and I'm jealous for Mega Man Reloaded, Loco Roco, and a few others, but I'm just too broke right now. And the PSP only beats the DS at non-gaming bonus functions, while the DS owns the PSP at games the PSP can't even play.



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The Ghost of RubangB on 26 May 2009
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PSP has greater games. If I may say so, the DS controls ruin games with great potential. It's great for Sudoku, Crossword games and anything else point and click but is awful for action adventure.

If you actually have a DS, which I doubt, you need to play Kirby Canvas Curse.  It's a platformer that can only be played with a touchscreen.  It took a new control scheme and applied it to an old genre and made it feel fresh and beautiful and fun and it can only be played on the DS.  It's a couple years old and super cheap by now.  I can't recommend that game enough.

If you don't have a DS, you just need to realize that the DS has more control schemes, which means more games, which means more exclusives, which means it won.



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mai on 26 May 2009

Some contribution to the thread. DS vs PSP game library by genres.

 

 

"Total" Graph:

- Based on www.gamerankings.com average ratings.

- Only 75%+ games were included.

- Note that genre differentiation is somewhat subjective.

- Contains only selected genres, therefore doesn't represent full game library of respective platform.

 

"Total" Graph Score: 118 (DS) vs 105 (PSP).

 

 

"Original" Graph:

- Based on www.gamerankings.com average ratings.

- Only 75%+ games were included.

- Note that genre differentiation is somewhat subjective.

- Contains only selected genres, therefore doesn't represent full game library of respective platform.

- All ports and remakes were excluded from the list (including multiplatform titles unless were originally developed for either DS or PSP).

- Multiplatform handheld exclusive titles were considered as "original" for both systems.

"Original" Graph Score: 94(DS) vs 49 (PSP).

 

 

Conclusion

Mine, purely subjective interpretation of those graphs is to follow. Only genres scored 10+ are included in conclusion.

PSP: Mainly sports (28) and racing (14) gaming machine with some strong action-adventure offerings (12), though overflooded by ports and multiplatform titles in sports genre (25 of total 28 titles) and in racing genre (7 of total 14 titles)  to some extent.

DS: Mainly puzzle (25) , role-playing (22) and platformer (16) gaming machine with some strong strategy offerings (14, including 10 of non-SRPG genre), to conrast with PSP little or no ports, remakes or multiplatform titles among mentioned genres.