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PSP vs. DS Six Months On
Gamasutra has a follow-up to a previous Question of the Week about the PSP and the DS. The question this past week was: "Which handheld do you think is winning the most hearts, and which the biggest marketshare in each territory?" From the article: " My personal view of the PSP hasn't changed at all. It's not what I'm looking for in a portable system. Seriously, who actually wants to watch a movie on a tiny screen? The DS genuinely has more options for innovation when it comes to unique software, but because the general masses are easily influenced by what is cool, I can foresee less developers spending time on creating innovative software on the DS in an effort to cash in on the popularity (and mass marketing) of the PSP. Still, the DS has sold quite a number of units, also, where I currently reside, the PSP has only just launched recently, so it's still hard to say. -Anonymous "
Let's see...
PSP == good games, nice little portable
DS == dual-screen gimmick with few or no games that usefully take advantage of the second screen.
Yeah. Gee, whatever would one choose?
Yes, but I'm not going to pay a portable based on ONE game.
Seriously, I don't care that the Nintendo fanboys modded me "flamebait". The fact of the matter is, the "dual screen" idea is nothing more than a gimmick. I have seen countless DS games and while they may display something on the second screen, they don't actually utilize it in an interesting or useful way. Hell, look at the most popular game out there right now - Nintendogs. What does it use the second screen for? From what I could tell, it just shows a clock and that's about it.
A bigger screen would be more useful than a dual screen - at least in the way that they're creating games for it right now. I think if you're going to get suckered into a DS, you should do it for the touch-sensitive games (which look dumb to me, but at least that's something different for once) rather than because it has two screens. Advanced Wars is the only game I've seen on DS that uses it in the way it should be used. It's like the developers of every other game didn't even KNOW there were going to be two screens.
A Screen so clear you could touch it!
And Downloadable homebrew!
I don't want to interact with my games by touching them, or blowing on them, immersion be damned. You look like an idiot.
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