^^@IxixNaugus
It all depends on the definition of hardcore, which is pointless imo.
Even lawnbowling or snakes 'n ladders can be hardcore depending on how it's played, so that word sadly has little meaning to me.

What game exactly? I've played Mario 1-3, Super Mario World, Super Mario on the Game boy, Mario 64 and Mario Sunshine when I had the Gamecube! WTF are you talking about? I've even played the Mario Party games such as Mario Party and Mario Kart on the Gamecube and the N64 and you don't know what i've played. The only thing you are spewing is a disbelief in what I have to say. You're not debunking shit.

The PSP doesn't majorly appeal to women. As I said, core gamers are few and dominantly male, but there are core female players. The DS majorly appeals to women of a wide variety of gages. Nothing I said was sexist. Nintendo isn't sexist either. There is a reason more females play Nintendo games than Playstation and Nintendo delivers more casual quality on the DS and especially the Wii. How many times i've been in a store and seem women clawing for Wii fit? I cannot even count.

I know girls who have FF Crisis core and a PSP as well. They also love anime, have a crush on Cloud, Zack or Sephiroth and to top it off, they are core RPG players. Now are you say that these women represent the same type of women buying games on Nintendo? Hell...I've even seen women who can rip your head off in Halo, but those are few and far between compared to the majority whom buy casual games.

@Ixis : As there are more casual games on DS, you can say the DS is 'more casual', but it doesn't mean it has less hardcore games than PSP, it has around the same number when I look at metareviews... So yeah, it's misleading.

One thing is on the technical side, the PSP is more advanced, which hardcore gamers generally like, but it doesn't make it really more 'hardcore'. We can just say that games like MGS don't seem possible on DS. Still, you've got a GTA game on DS...

I know I'm more attracted to the PSP due to its higher technical specs and due to it being closer to PS2 in games... Still, DS looks nice to me too even on the hardcore side of things (many great games on it).

As I said before, there was barely a hardcore audience at the time the first Mario was out. Mario is a casual mascot, aimed to suck casuals and children into the realm of videogames (IE: Like they did with me). He is put in cartoons, books as a image of what Nintendo has to offer. Mario titles are well crafted, but they are created to generated new gamers and also hold onto the attention of those who have grown with Mario. When I say a hardcore following, I am stating that the brand has loyalists, who find quality in the product and will play it in a more challenging manner than say casuals who will just play from beginning to end. These loyalists will find all the secret rooms and all that the game has to offer. Casuals....do not care to do type of thing. Final Fantasy is a JRPG, which takes strategy. You need to put things into their proper categories. When you say casual...you think anything that is popular. No! Stop that. A casual title, is a 'pick up and play' game that is crafted intentionally to catch the eye of non-gamers. A game that can be played within an instant without having to learn sixteen to eighteen buttons and you can be on your way to having fun. It doesn't provide and intermediate challenge, unless one seeks to progress or one cares to see all there is to see in that game.

The PSP is more hardcore than the DS, because it doesn't have too many games that appeal to casuals. It has the gorier, grittier, mature titles. It has intermediate level games or higher at best with few casual titles. The DS is a great portable that has way more games that casuals can "pick up and play" along with games that hardcore can play as well. Except on the flip side, theres less of a percentage of hardcore games on that portable. As one person said before...for every hardcore game, there are five casual games on the DS. Nintendo has always thought of everyone and not just the hardcore. This is what everyone seems to forget.

....and I still wonder why GTA sold like shit on the DS. Thats the lowest selling GTA game ever.

Well, that statement is very true.  And yes, the company that targets a wider audience is going to get more sales.  Seem the intelligent way to go to me.  But, you miss that for every 'hardcore' title on the PSP, there are three on the DS.  I think both systems are 'hardcore'.

Oh yeah, in my mistakenly responding to this post thinking it was a different post of digitalentourage, I forgot to actually address this one. 

I see your point why you would say Wii and DS are expanding into other realms beyond just a gaming system like the other two consoles.  With Wii Fit at any rate.  Because it also is used to exercise and monitor weight.  But they are all games, it's quite odd you don't understand that.  And you saying the DS and Wii, which can do more than video games systems of the past, are now lowered to a straight up electronic toy, is just your attempt to debase them because they do not hold your personal interest. 

Of course the DS has more games. That is not disputed. It doesn't even matter if they have more hardcore games. The PSP is essentially a system which has more hardcore games than casual, thus aimed at the hardcore.