I picked up the new PSP Slim and gave my old one to a good friend for Christmas. He was DYING to play some of those great PSP games like Ratchet/Clank, Syphon Filter, Burnout, etc... but just doesn't have the cash. I was shocked how much lighter the new one is! However, the TV out is disappointing. I was hoping it would fill my entire HDTV screen. Oh well... Maybe Sony will update that with a firmware.

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The comment about the screen reminds me of the time some dude said he won't buy a PSP until they get rid of the UMD - a proprietary format which means "he can't play his games (and movies) on other devices".

Kind of ruined his point when he added he'd bought a DS instead....priceless.

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It's a good thing dungeon siege is keeping my PSP busy. There isn't a whole lot of anything coming out for a few months. Nothing I'm interested in, anyway.

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I finally got around to picking up KZ Liberation tonight...its awesome.

Well worth the 20-25$ you'll pay to pick it up.

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Good to see the PSP doing well. Though i hate the fact Sony treats Japan so much better than us, i still think that the PSP beats the DS. I mean its not even a competition. The PSP has movies, games, internet, songs, you name it, all complete with a nice screen and PS2 comparable graphics.

The DS has....... a touch screen? Wow ya, i guss i want a DS now. I always loved those game boy color style graphics! HAHAHAHA man, sometimes i dont even know why ANYONE would want a DS. If someone has bought a DS over a PSP, please tell me what your on.

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pspfanboy, change the background on the comments. I feel like I'm on the apple website.

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NO shock here.. I mean this is the psp they are talking about

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Sales would jump pretty damn high here in North America if they could encourage Squ'enix to release CRISIS CORE and DISSIDIA here already. :p They already missed getting it out in time for the Holidays... at least they can try for the PSP's anniversary.

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"Going strictly by GameRanking score, people can say the PSP lacks great titles"

http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/simpleratings.asp
PSP
Average Rating of 200 games: 76.0905 %
Games rated 75% or higher (good): 102

DS
Average Rating of 200 games: 75.776 %
Games rated 75% or higher (good) 100

Going strictly by GameRanking score, people can say the DS lacks great titles, since it has less than PSP

http://www.metacritic.com/games/psp/scores/
PSP:
Games rated green (good): 102
Games rated yellow (ok): 212
Games rated red (poor): 22

http://www.metacritic.com/games/ds/scores/
DS:
Games rated green (good): 83
Games rated yellow (ok): 210
Games rated poor (red): 48

Going by metacritic, DS's game library is significantly worse than PSPs. And only has 5 more titles.

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brello,

The PSP is noisy? What are talking about!? You can hear it at all! There is no noise coming from a PSP, you need to see a doctor about your hearing. Sheesh.........

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Quoted from the second page

"Going strictly by GameRanking score, people can say the PSP lacks great titles"

http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/simpleratings.asp
PSP
Average Rating of 200 games: 76.0905 %
Games rated 75% or higher (good): 102

DS
Average Rating of 200 games: 75.776 %
Games rated 75% or higher (good) 100

Going strictly by GameRanking score, people can say the DS lacks great titles, since it has less than PSP

http://www.metacritic.com/games/psp/scores/
PSP:
Games rated green (good): 102
Games rated yellow (ok): 212
Games rated red (poor): 22

http://www.metacritic.com/games/ds/scores/
DS:
Games rated green (good): 83
Games rated yellow (ok): 210
Games rated poor (red): 48

Going by metacritic, DS's game library is significantly worse than PSPs. And only has 5 more titles.

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"Flash and HD are superior simply because of the load times"

Optical (UMD) is superior simply because it offers exponentially more capacity for exponentially cheaper publishing costs.

PSP level of quality games can't be done on flash with the developers expecting to make a profit.

And installing games to memory stick, and swapping them out via a PC when you want to play other games is not a portable friendly option.

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I own both, my DS only has 3 games (Advance wars 1,2 and Dual) and my wife use it to play her Super Mario Bro, thats is all the use for my DS(and I have a pink one). My psp, use it for RSS, email check, media access and own 6 games. PSP see more use in my house, cos its a little bit more "useful" imo. But handheld games kinda throw me off, since I own almost all consoles (still don't plan to own Wii, I am not Mario/Zelda fan), there are just too many port for handheld which I rather play on my tv.

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I do think UMD is the major flaw in the PSP system, but Sony's history of developing special disk media (minidisc, blu-ray) predisposed it to that solution. Flash and HD are superior simply because of the load times, which is the DS's one advantage: cartridges over discs.

The DS Lite is fun in specific ways. The stylus is useful for games like Hotel Dusk (tooling around the hotel by tracing a line on a map) and Trauma Center (the stylus's use as a scalpel is amazingly appropriate, since a stylus is an anal reincarnation of an analog stick) -- but in a PS-style game like Dementium, it's counter-intuitive. I agree with the guy a page back who said he didn't want to dink with a stylus while riding a bus. What annoys me about Nintendo apart from the *utterly wholesome content* is their gimmicky approach to controllers. Ever since the Gamecube, they've come up with ideas that sound better than they feel. Lots of people seem to love playing RE4 on the Wii, but a friend of mine hates using the "Wiimote" to shoot zombies. He says it feels wrong to switch from being a race car driver (the PS2 controller) to some guy holding a TV remote with a Tourettic magic wand trapped inside.

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