[quote name='chosen1s']I think it would have helped if your first post had said "I'm not that excited about many of the games coming out for the DS this year" as opposed to generalizing that they have a "weak lineup". I don't like the GTA series, but I'm not going to pretend it's a weak title just because I'm not interested - especially in a conversation about a system's overall merits across the gaming community.
After your response to jkam your first post makes more sense...[/QUOTE]
Yeah, no kidding. Besides Valkyrie Profile Lenneth (which hopefully my EB will get soon as I preordered it!) I don't see anything that interests me on the PSP any time soon (except possibly Loco Roco). It seems like it is all fighting games, and those don't interest me in the slightest
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to me, the PSP has a very weak lineup.
I have a PSP and a DS - both since early last year (DS in Feb or so, PSP at launch). I have probably put more time EACH in 2 DS games by themselves than the PSP all together - those being Advance Wars DS and Animal Crossing. I did just play through Daxter on the PSP though - first PSP game I've finished (edit - correction, I 'finished' Katamari too I suppose!). I will play through Valkyrie Profile as soon as I can get it.
I haven't read the article yet, but as for movies - I stuck the included Spiderman 2 UMD in there once to see what it looked like and haven't played a UMD movie since :lol:. And I have some TV shows/music/pictures on my memory stick but I rarely look at them. Part of the problem is that the PSP seems too fragile and expensive to be truly portable so I never take it travelling. Even if I did, I always have a laptop with me anyway, and of course pictures/movies are much better on that. My DS, on the other hand, gets lots of play time on airplanes and hotel rooms. The PSP gets 'ported' around to different rooms of my house though
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I hope the PSP does well, but I also hope they don't redesign it any time soon - for purely selfish reasons. Since I don't play it that often, I can't justify upgrading and I don't want to be left behind (like I currently am with the DS Lite) by the "PSP Plus". I will get a DS lite - just waiting for a better color selection.
Edit - OK, read the article. There's really not much there. The lack of million game sellers is not a huge problem if lots of software is sold across the system (he doesn't mention totals). And it doesn't really matter if the DS is kicking the PSP's ass anyway - it can still be successful. Just look at the Gamecube vs the PS2. While it is way behind, it is still a successful system in terms of good games for us and profit for Nintendo. That memory stick movie distribution thing sounds horrible though - I'll have to read something with more info than he gives about it.