Official PSP vs DS poll

Let's put it in numbers. I'm just too excited about it, and I don't want t3h hyp3 too die!

DS for me!

Based on quality of manufacturing I have to go with Nintendo. I may buy a PSP but only with a 3 year exhange plan at EB.

MilkManX said:

Based on quality of manufacturing I have to go with Nintendo. I may buy a PSP but only with a 3 year exhange plan at EB.

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This is one of those products that would make me buy a Extended Warenty from Best Buy...

I voted DS. It is the only system that excites me right now...

I'll have to give a big thumbs up to Nintendo on this as well. Because they have proven over and over, that they can make a quality, durable, and powerful piece of hardware that ALSO can do very well coupled with the fact that the Gameboy is the best selling platform of all time. Dual screens with one touch screen just makes me drool too. If it does have GBA compatibility and/or PDA functionality, DS has my vote and my purchase! Rock on Nintendo!

PSP... well it is a very sexy and sleek looking unit, very mature looking. But with portable gaming requiring a durable unit, Sony's redundant durability problems, and the fact it uses an optical disc for media storage... despite the things you can do with optical media like FMV intros and shit.... it just really lets me down. Seems too aggressive & cocky to me.

And I've enjoyed more of Nintendo's franchises than Sony's anyway.
Metroid > Zelda > Mario > Crash Bandicoot, I mean WTF?

I predict Nintendo will smash Sony. Period.

I voted for the DS. I'll buy both but Nintendo always makes good systems that last. The Sony one will probably have good games but like all sony products it'll burn out in a week. The games for the DS look great

Right now I'm a bit undecided as to which one I'll pick. I'm leaning more towards Nintendo DS, but if I get enough money to buy both I will.

I was thinking the PSP would blow away Nintendo, but I'm really, really impressed with the DS right now. I'll be trying my damnedest to buy them both eventually, though. I would probably go with the DS as my first purchase.

I'm going with DS for sure, PSP has yet to offer anything to get me interested. I can play 95% of the titles they have announced on my current consoles.

both.

and that's going to make me very fucking broke.

Nintendo is really fighting to scream "victory" this time.

All that E3 stuff is making them look better on the spotlight and their new Zelda will certainly put them in the road they should be since the begining.

Now they look like they're doing stuff like the Nintendo spirit says.

My vote went obviously to DS.

Playstation products are $hyte. DS for me.

Nintendo like allways finds away to steal the spotlight.

Which one?!?!?

they both look amazing- ds has dual screens and psp has incredible sequels or remakes. i had to vote both.

I WANT BOTH!!! Im planning to import the PSP once it comes out this fall in Japan, and wait for the US release of the DS...

1st time I've been awed by a handheld system... DS.

DS, no doubt about it.

Right now I am leaning towards none of them. I was disappointed with the GBA and the PSP is probably going to be expensive. But the DS does show some potential.

I voted for both. Being a big console fan, most likely I will buy both of them when they are released here in Europe. Then, only time will tell which is the one I finish playing and buying games for.

The PSP looks more appealing to me as of now. I just hope its screen is resistant and the machine durable. Most likely you'll be able to buy some cover-lid that totally protects the face of it while you are not playing. In any case, I don't really use portables to play on the go, rather to use them when I have to stay out of my place for a long while, when I'm abroad or on holidays, so I just play them lying in bed.

For example last year I spent 2 months in Newcastle in a student residence, so I had no TV and no computer in my room. I brought my GBA SP and played the shit out of my 5 games during that time. However now I have a Treamcast ("portable" Dreamcast with LCD screen, but it sucks), a PSOne+LCD combo and a laptop (not a powerful one). Still, other than the laptop, I'd rather bring the PSP with me.

I prefer one big screen like the PSP one to 2 small screens of the DS. I couldn't care less about one of them being tactil. On the same time I don't see the point in the PSP being able to display movies if you have to buy them in its specific format.

I'm also a bit pissed with Nintendo because of hand-helds. I bought a GBA 2 years ago, and barely used it because of the shitty screen. Then 1 year ago I had to pay again full price for the SP, and I love it. And now, will I have to buy yet again another system, the DS, that plays the same games? OK, it also has new games, but still they are releasing it too soon. I guess the PSP launch forced them to do so... They start to remind me of Sega and their TV consoles: they were abandoned/replaced with new ones too early (I'm talking about Mega CD, 32X, Saturn, Dreamcast...).

About anounced games, the PSP ones look amazing to me, specially in such a screen. Just the Metal Gear one justifies the purchase of the console alone.

DS all the way... just with some of the games that I've seen like Mario 64-4 and the New SMB game along with Animal Crossing, Mario Kart. Come on I love it so far. If sony can prove they have a quality system that wont break in the first day like their other systems I'll buy that as well. But not untill there is a significant price decrease. I've spent $400 on a new hand held this year already dont need to any time soon again.

Buy Both... Then Take them in the tub...

I voted for the DS since I really hope that the new nintendo system will have the same 2D arcade games that the GBA. I could bet that the PSP will be 3D only.

Um...there are already Darkstalkers announced for PSP...I believe thats 2D...I say bring on the rest of the capcom fighters

I voted both, but I may wait on the DS. If I knew more people buying them, maybe I could justify early adopting it. That way I would have someone to use the wireless multiplayer feature with. I don't have many gamer friends these days, and I'm too busy to hang out with the ones that are into this stuff.

The PSP, however.. is looking amazing to me. Just watching the game trailer was enough to sell me on it. A new Hot Shots Golf game? New Ridge Racer title? Dynasty Warriors, Armored Core, Medievil, Metal Gear Solid Acid? And on top of that, a version of Gran Turismo 4? Yes please, I'll take two. The only thing that disappoints me is the poor battery life. Only 2.5 hours while playing games? That's piss poor. At least it has a rechargeable battery.

After buying a GBA, I don't think I'm going to be buying either of these things really. I don't play portable systems anymore.

Hopefully each company will release some adapter for their home systems to play this stuff on the big screen like the GBA player.

Anywho, if you asked me which one looks better I'd say PSP. I really don't know what is making people so excited about DS for. It's got two screens and N64 graphics, wooooooooo gimmick x10.

I think when it comes down to it, though it's really going to be all about price.

I think "teh mainstreamers" will probably want a PSP instead of the DS, but if the PSP is going to cost $250 it's going to get eaten by the $150 DS. The portable market is really more for the younger kids than it is for the 18-35 demographic Sony is targeting. I mean who has GameBoy's when you go somewhere? Little kids that's who, most of the time the the adults have something to do. The only adults I can see really going after a handheld would be people who travel a lot, but even then they probably would already have a laptop for this kind of application.

Meh.

JHendrix said:

I really don't know what is making people so excited about DS for. It's got two screens and N64 graphics, wooooooooo gimmick x10.

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Biased? NOOOOO.