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I dunno what im getting-.-; they both is good

I think i'm gonna get Nintendo DS cause a friend of mine has one and its really fun to use and its really cool (it also has a 100 feetrange text chat program built in)

really..? i didn't know that... only thang i know is that its touch screeen

Playstation is jumping rather quickly into the handheld field of gaming. I would avise NOT to get the PSP, but rather their second model of handheld systems. There are already several defects and bugs found in the new PSP and it hasn't even made it to the US!

Nintendo DS however has pefected the art! They know exactly what they are doing and exactly what people want. Choosing this from the two would no doubt be the better choice.

as i said i've used a nintendo DS the graphics are pretty good, although there just a bit behind the gamecubes graphics.

game play is decent the controls are to hard to use, all but the metroid game having to aim using a touchpad screen while moving and shooting isnt the easyest thing. (it sounds easy but its not)

for games i think they just took some from Nintendo and gamecube and converted them to the DS the little disc things you use for the games are about the size of a quarter (25 cent peice)

lol shadow-ninja..... the shooting thing from metroid isn't that hard... ull get used to it lol

The Nintendo DS looks amazing. The 100 foot chat thing is AWESOME. Another reason I want get the DS is that the games that I have seen compared the PSP are way better. The PSP doesn't look very bad but the DS just looks much better!!!

100 foot isnt that long at all, if you're 100 foot away why not just yell at the person?

lmao ghost... well caimm .. if ur sayings about PSP games arent better then DS.. then ima get DS..

I would choose the DS over PSP because nintendo has been making handhelds for longer and they have the intellect on what people want it to do or how its designed. Sony just hasnt been there long enough to do what nintendo has done.

hey replic ur right about that but... nintendo been makin consoles longer then PS but playstation was betta then 64. So.... u neva know^.^;; anyways.. what doez intellect means?

what if ur too lazy? yea, thought so, well get the DS nintendo has been doing hand helds longer than sony, like somebody said before, i forgot who, get the second sony psp model, that will be good

I'm more interested in the DS. The point that has been brought up before, Nintendo just have more experience in this field. I trust they can make a good handheld. Also, I heard it was backwards compatible.

One thing that turned me off the PSP was it's battery life. I keep hearing bad things about it (four hours!).

Both only becasue i cant prefer one over the onther its really hard to pick!

i would like the PSP more becasue of Final Fantasy Advent Children and
ToD 2(i think thats going to be programed into the PSP or something)


anyway i gave what i thought so yea

-Oni-Sei- AWAY!!!(falls over face ifrst in the sand)

i alredy got a ds and im not wasting more money buyingh a psp

i was thinking aobut getting the psp, but 4 hours is not near enough. Couldnt care less about anything FFXII. and all those advance games just waiting to be played ( Metroid )

Sony has more third-party support so the PSP will have more games from big names, also it has Metal Gear ACID . So far the games for the DS haven't really used the touch screen all that well, also it can't even play original gameboy or gameboy color games. I'm fine with my SP, thank you very much.

lol xeno " im fine with my SP thank you " SP is samething as advanced... i dunno why SP is so good

SP has a backlit screen, retard-breath.

Call me crazy if you will but isn't Advent Children a DVD movie?

lol yeah advent children IS a movie-.-;

Well, I already got a Nintendo DS, so i'm probably gonna stick with it . Sadly, I wish the PictoChat WAS 100 feet.......(it's actually 30 ). I'm pretty sure the DS is 64-bit...as compared to GBA, which is......16-bit? Good/bad thing about DS is that it comes with a special rechargeable battery pack just for it.

ooo rechargable battery? thats sexy, i think im gnna get a dS

well im going with psp playstation portible i already think that nintendo dx is going to be a little gay like the gamecube except the games like super smash brothers melee, starfox, metroid prime, and all the mario parties.
i bet there is going to be a hell of alot of games with the psp so im going to get it someday

Well, more games have been announced on the DS so far... Let's just wait to see which has better games mmkay?

And for the thread maker it's Nintendo DS, not Gameboy DS.

Anyway, I'd get a DS over a PSP for a couple reasons:

1. Price

The DS is only $150 and games can be saved in the cartridge. The PSP however is around $189 and you will have to add the cost of buying a 32mb memory stick to save games which brings it above $200. And if you want to buy a memory stick that can actually hold lots of songs, movies, etc, then you will probably want a 128 or 256mb stick which I bet costs $50 or even more.

2. Battery Life

According to Gamespot, battery life when running Ridge Racer was 90 minutes to 3 hours... Of course it is nice that when you recharge, it automatically gets you to the place you were at, but when compared to the DSs 10 hours of gameplay, it doesn't come close. And GS has also said that when playing with friends, your battery life is even WORSE.

3. Design

The PSP has great specs, but according to GS "the front of the system picks up fingerprints rather easily." When you look at the DS, the fold design actually PROTECTS the screens from finger prints and what not.

4. Loading Time

According to GS,

"Ridge Racers loads for about 15 seconds up front, and from there, getting into or out of a race takes another 10 to 15 seconds."

Wow, so in order to race 4 races, you will have to wait a minute just for it to load. And again since the PSPs battery life is going to be short, this will make it worse. When you compare it with the DSs NO loading time, it's an insult.

5. Problems

Nintendo has a good history of keeping their products durable. I have seen numerous reports of disc errors on the PS2 and even a law suit has been filed against Sony. Even now, there are reports of numerous defects of PSP such as buttons not work, disc "shooting", pixel errors... I have not seen a major complaint of DS so far.

6. Innovation

With the PSP, it is great how it is a multi task device such as playing music, video, etc... but it doesn't play music as well as, say the Ipod. It does many things, but they are mediocre. We have seen these things before. However, the DS incorporates new ideas with 2 screens, a touchpad, and a microphone. Heck the DS even comes with a free demo!

7. Value

If you have never tried a GBA, well this is a bonus to you. The DS will play GBA carts in better quality than a GBA! I have 3 GBA games right now and I can't wait to see them on a DS. This is a great bonus because even if you don't like the current launch games, you can always play some GBA classics like Advance Wars and they look better on the DS! It's like getting 2 systems!

Nintendo has had 8 competitors in the handheld industry and none has come close of dethroning the big N.