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Okay, I'll tell you whats bad about the PSP
1) The launch price on the PSP will be $249. For $249, I could buy a real system and some games, upgrade the memory in my new computer, or save up money for the next generation systems. Which one you think I’m going to do? I’ll give you a hint; it involves 1 gb of ram.
2) The PSP was only $185 in Japan. What do we get for the extra 64 bucks? 32MB Memory Stick, headphones, battery pack, AC adaptor, soft case, and cleaning cloth. All things that should have been thrown in, non-gratis. (and it’s funny they give us a 32 mb stick when a Sandisk Memory Stick Pro Duo 128MB is only $39)
3) The PSP games look like they will run around $49 a piece, considering that’s the same price I could pay for a REAL game, I don’t think it’s worth it. That’s the same price as Halo2, GTA:SA, Half-Life 2 with Counter-Strike Source or Doom3, and do you think ANYTHING the PSP produces will compare to any of those games?
4) I’m kind of leery of any system that will include a special cleaning cloth.
5) The PSP is not comfortable to play. I can prove this. How? Look at the PSP, take a book or something about the same size, turn it on it’s side, and act like you’re pressing buttons on it, now try to press those buttons and look at an imaginary screen in-between them. Notice how that hurts your neck? Not yet? Give it a few hours.
6) The Gameboy Advance SP is comfortable to play. Take that same book, *or a smaller one to be more accurate* and turn it right side up, press the buttons and look where the screen would be on an SP. Notice that hurts your neck less? That is why Nintendo changed the design on the Advance to the SP. That is why the main screen on the DS is the top one.
7) UMDs (Sony’s so called universal media disks) are stupid, why needlessly complicate things? You get a 1.8gb disk, big whoop, 1.8 gb, the Nintendo Gamecube uses small disks, and they got 1.3gb out of them, so the fact Sony was able to do 1.8 doesn’t impress me.
8) Cartridge systems are still better in the handheld world. A cartridge is better because it can store memory; it has no moving parts, and drains the battery slower. A CD, I mean, a UMD, requires a drive to read those disks, a way to clean that drive, and even then, you still have to deal with CDs getting scratched; and if CDs get “use scratches” in a PS2 setting on a table, how quickly are these games going to get scratched in a car on a bumpy rode? Here’s an idea that would blow your freaking mind, why don’t they put games in a 3gb USB pin drive? (Pen Drive USA currently has a 2gb model and a 3gb in the works)
9) Sony makes low quality products! I don’t know how Sony got to be a brand name, Sony products have always sucked, from the cardboard coned speakers in home stereo systems and low quality TVs, to the over priced disk-mans, insanely unreliable PS2s, and laughable Sony Xplode car speakers. If you ever go to a car audio competition, ask someone with a real system in their car, they’ll tell you, “Sony is teh suck.”
10) Where the heck are the analog control sticks? I understand the DS didn’t have analog sticks because it folds over on it’s self (which helps keep the screens from getting damaged BTW), but the PSP doesn’t, so why are there no sticks? Do they not realize how much your fingers hurt from playing with no sticks for hours? Do they not care? Did they do this to cut costs?
1) The launch price on the PSP will be $249. For $249, I could buy a real system and some games, upgrade the memory in my new computer, or save up money for the next generation systems. Which one you think I’m going to do? I’ll give you a hint; it involves 1 gb of ram.
2) The PSP was only $185 in Japan. What do we get for the extra 64 bucks? 32MB Memory Stick, headphones, battery pack, AC adaptor, soft case, and cleaning cloth. All things that should have been thrown in, non-gratis. (and it’s funny they give us a 32 mb stick when a Sandisk Memory Stick Pro Duo 128MB is only $39)
3) The PSP games look like they will run around $49 a piece, considering that’s the same price I could pay for a REAL game, I don’t think it’s worth it. That’s the same price as Halo2, GTA:SA, Half-Life 2 with Counter-Strike Source or Doom3, and do you think ANYTHING the PSP produces will compare to any of those games?
4) I’m kind of leery of any system that will include a special cleaning cloth.
5) The PSP is not comfortable to play. I can prove this. How? Look at the PSP, take a book or something about the same size, turn it on it’s side, and act like you’re pressing buttons on it, now try to press those buttons and look at an imaginary screen in-between them. Notice how that hurts your neck? Not yet? Give it a few hours.
6) The Gameboy Advance SP is comfortable to play. Take that same book, *or a smaller one to be more accurate* and turn it right side up, press the buttons and look where the screen would be on an SP. Notice that hurts your neck less? That is why Nintendo changed the design on the Advance to the SP. That is why the main screen on the DS is the top one.
7) UMDs (Sony’s so called universal media disks) are stupid, why needlessly complicate things? You get a 1.8gb disk, big whoop, 1.8 gb, the Nintendo Gamecube uses small disks, and they got 1.3gb out of them, so the fact Sony was able to do 1.8 doesn’t impress me.
8) Cartridge systems are still better in the handheld world. A cartridge is better because it can store memory; it has no moving parts, and drains the battery slower. A CD, I mean, a UMD, requires a drive to read those disks, a way to clean that drive, and even then, you still have to deal with CDs getting scratched; and if CDs get “use scratches” in a PS2 setting on a table, how quickly are these games going to get scratched in a car on a bumpy rode? Here’s an idea that would blow your freaking mind, why don’t they put games in a 3gb USB pin drive? (Pen Drive USA currently has a 2gb model and a 3gb in the works)
9) Sony makes low quality products! I don’t know how Sony got to be a brand name, Sony products have always sucked, from the cardboard coned speakers in home stereo systems and low quality TVs, to the over priced disk-mans, insanely unreliable PS2s, and laughable Sony Xplode car speakers. If you ever go to a car audio competition, ask someone with a real system in their car, they’ll tell you, “Sony is teh suck.”
10) Where the heck are the analog control sticks? I understand the DS didn’t have analog sticks because it folds over on it’s self (which helps keep the screens from getting damaged BTW), but the PSP doesn’t, so why are there no sticks? Do they not realize how much your fingers hurt from playing with no sticks for hours? Do they not care? Did they do this to cut costs?
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Orgasmo
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Where's the option for 'they're both great'?
ShiningClefairy
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Ookay, so no matter what, in this poll, we have to hate at least one of the systems?
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Orgasmo
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Sad isn't it.ShiningClefairy said:Ookay, so no matter what, in this poll, we have to hate at least one of the systems?
Games: The DS doesn't have that great a selection right now, except for Super Mario 64 DS and Meteos. Things will pick up later this year and early next year with Animal Crossing DS, Mario Kart DS, Katamari Damancy, Final Fantasy III, and The New Super Mario Bros.
Graphics: What's not to like, but some of these games look like they could go on a GBA, at least to me.
Controls: This is where the DS falters, but for the most part it applies to Super Mario 64 and Metroid Prime Hunters.
For Super Mario 64, I find it impossible to control with the stylus. I have to use the D-pad in order to do anything like jumping and stuff, and even then, it's still hard to control with the stylus. So what I do is I ditch the stylus and just use the D-pad for directional and ABXY for everything else. However, like the stylus, it's no substitue for an analog stick.
For Metroid Prime Hunters, the control scheme can make your left hand sore quite quickly (assuming you're right handed). To me, playing Metroid Prime on the DS is like playing Star Fox on a Game Boy. It just doesn't work.
Graphics: What's not to like, but some of these games look like they could go on a GBA, at least to me.
Controls: This is where the DS falters, but for the most part it applies to Super Mario 64 and Metroid Prime Hunters.
For Super Mario 64, I find it impossible to control with the stylus. I have to use the D-pad in order to do anything like jumping and stuff, and even then, it's still hard to control with the stylus. So what I do is I ditch the stylus and just use the D-pad for directional and ABXY for everything else. However, like the stylus, it's no substitue for an analog stick.
For Metroid Prime Hunters, the control scheme can make your left hand sore quite quickly (assuming you're right handed). To me, playing Metroid Prime on the DS is like playing Star Fox on a Game Boy. It just doesn't work.
DJ-Will said:Games: The DS doesn't have that great a selection right now, except for Super Mario 64 DS and Meteos. Things will pick up later this year and early next year with Animal Crossing DS, Mario Kart DS, Katamari Damancy, Final Fantasy III, and The New Super Mario Bros.
ADVANCE WARS DUAL STRIKE.
I know people that are buying the system because this game exists. kthxbai.
Thunder Child
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Powerage said:ADVANCE WARS DUAL STRIKE.
I know people that are buying the system because this game exists. kthxbai.
Nintendogs too, don't forget Nintendogs! It's selling hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of units, and has been integral in making the DS the powerhouse in Japan it is right now. In fact, the DS accounts for 54% of ALL CONSOLES, home and handheld, in Japan right now.
Snorlax 360
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DS pwns the PSP.
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Orgasmo
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Seriously STFU. They are both great systems that are completely different.Snorlax 360 said:DS pwns the PSP.
Snorlax 360
Sea Ruby Trainer
Meh, I know that. I just meant OVERALL the DS is better.FrenzyPlant said:Seriously STFU. They are both great systems that are completely different.
Oh, by the way, I have had a PSP since Febuary.
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Orgasmo
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How can you say that? The only thing they have in common is that they both play games.Snorlax 360 said:Meh, I know that. I just meant OVERALL the DS is better.
And?Snorlax 360 said:Oh, by the way, I have have a PSP since Febuary.
Snorlax 360
Sea Ruby Trainer
I'm not going to argue with you, I'm just saying that I prefer the DS, but I enjoy the PSP.
Done.
Done.
ShiningClefairy
Meteor Trainer
Even though it's not being translated anytime soon (and most likely never), you can't give all of the credit to Nintendogs and none to Jump Superstars as the reason why the DS is beating the PSP in Japan. Heck, that might be the first game I ever import.Thunder Child said:It's selling hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of units, and has been integral in making the DS the powerhouse in Japan it is right now.
Thunder Child
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ShiningClefairy said:Even though it's not being translated anytime soon (and most likely never), you can't give all of the credit to Nintendogs and none to Jump Superstars as the reason why the DS is beating the PSP in Japan. Heck, that might be the first game I ever import.
Of course Jump SuperStars has been a great success, and I'd argue its success and popularity has been just as beneficial to the DS in Japan as Nintendogs.
microgamer
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Make sure you're not holding the DS in a way that all of the weight is on the left hand. Having some of your fingers from the right hand support the other side of the DS or playing on a flat surface like a desk or your lap always helps with that...unless you're already doing that...then you'll just have to get used to it.DJ-Will said:For Metroid Prime Hunters, the control scheme can make your left hand sore quite quickly (assuming you're right handed). To me, playing Metroid Prime on the DS is like playing Star Fox on a Game Boy. It just doesn't work.
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