Nintendo Gives No Ground In Handheld Wars

TomO wrote to mention a news item on the site Pro-G reporting on a general consumer confidence in the DS, greater than that of the PSP. From the article: "Wavemetrix, a company that specialises in working out what customers think of products, has released a new report on the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP. The report, rather shockingly, reveals that the 'DS is better than the PSP in every important area.' This includes games, quality, screen and value." Relatedly a Gamespy article states: "Few could have imagined it, but the DS is becoming the most significant new console in Japan since the PS2. What started as a rumbling -- with great novelty games such as Wario and XX/YY -- has recently turned into a full-scale dual-screen uprising led by Electroplankton and Nintendogs."

Comments

Factual error

[News for nerds]

Electroplankton was a straight flop, actually.

Re:Study: -1 Troll

[austad]

I've owned one of each. I got rid of the DS after a week. The games for it were only so-so, it felt like a cheap piece of crap, and I didn't particularly like the screen or controls.

Personally, I think the PSP beats the DS on all counts. The DS seems like it's targetted more towards children, so if the results of that survey came from kids, I can see why they found what they did.