I'm about to have $500 bucks to spend on entertainment items. I have about $125.00 wrapped up in books I want from Amazon. I'd like to get a portable game system with some of the rest. Which would you recommend - DS or PSP? Factors to consider - game choice, SCREEN VISIBILITY, durability. My favorite game of all time, all systems, is Tetris for the original Game Boy - I assume that the DS is NOT backwards-compatible, but there must be a Tetris available. I like a good action game - Jak & Daxter and its ilk...
Little Help?
Joe
DS, no doubt. I've had both a PSP and a DS I later sold the PSP. The DS is backward-compatible up to the GBA games. And the Tetris for the both the GBA and the DS are awesome.
The PSP tries to do everything and fails. You can play videos and music on it. But you have to buy sony's own UMD's Movies, which isn't cheap. It only holds 2GB max if you buy a Memory Stick Duo (maybe 4??). And music, You can't play music DL off of apple
It's space is just to small for all these extra I hoped it would do. It has a WiFi, but you only have a D-pad and 4 buttons. SO again it sucks trying to surf the web. And the few games I had were just ok. I mean FX wise, the games looked good. But the fun factor was just blah.
Now the DS was great. I liked the games much more on the DS. Metroid prime hunters is a GREAT game. At 1st aiming with the Stylist seemed odd, but in 5 mins of the game I feel in love using that to aim. Just the whole touch screen kicks ass.
And on-line play is great. Being that the DS is selling like crazy(like 3 times more then the PSP), there is always someone to play on-line. Mario Kart and Metroid prime hunters are my most played on-line games. In Chicago, when I take the subway or the bus, I seem to see someone always playing a DS, but I only seen someone playing the PSP one time.
Also there is mod ability. The DS has it by the buckets, the PSP doesn't. I will only talk about the legal. with a cycloDS, you can fit a new SDHC 32GB (max) micro. With it you can read ebooks. what I do, and its great. And if you back up all your old games, you can put them all on one SD card, I have a 4GB one. and its so nice. I have 30 games loaded, so I don't have to carry about 30 games with me, just one mod card(which is the size of a game.
The only think the PSP has over the DS is graphics. which is kinda close to a PS2. but the DS out does the PSP in everything else.
). And I just love how simple it is for friends to join games with you.
