[Question] NDS Lite vs PSP?

I'm not reading all of the above. I'll just keep this short, since I have owned both a PSP and DS simultaneously (impossible).

The PSP is great for emulation and has a huge team working to provide different material which is all free. The problem with the PSP is that there's barely any good retail games available to purchase, or download if you're that way inclined. Which you probably are, given that owning a PSP is not worth it unless you devour yourself into emulation.

The DS (Lite)'s library of retail games is huge, and there's something for everything. It lacks RPGs, but it's still managing to dominate in sales. Emulation is rather poor, but downloading DS games and putting them on a slot-1 device is common practice these days.

If you want emulation, buy a PSP. If you want a bunch of good retail games, buy a DS.

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Originally Posted by Rock

Also, if you want a bunch of good retail games, buy a PSP.

Bullshit. The PSP has a few good games but that's it. In comparison to the emulation and freely available stuff that's out there, there's little point in even purchasing PSP games. The same cuts both ways for the DS, except there's little emulation.

I can think of, what, 5-10 PSP games that I'd actually play? 1-5 that I'd actually buy? In comparison to the DS, it doesn't compete. Seriously. It's doing well against the DS but the fact of the matter is this is a "PSP vs DS" thread. And the DS is winning.

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Originally Posted by SouthJag

The Nintendo.com Master Game List came back with 47 results with the category "Puzzle" included, and they've missed several since they categorize as well by "Mental Training." So it's closer to 60, really.

But theres over 1200 games for the DS. That doesn't sound like much in comparison to it's library. If you view the DS as, "oh it's just a bunch of brain training and puzzle games", you aren't looking hard enough. I went through the PSP ordeal last year, and I didn't find that many games I enjoyed. Locoroco, Taiko no Tatsujin (which is now on DS, I guess), Power Stone, DJMAX and a couple of others.

I looked quite hard too. But oh well. I just prefer the DS because of it's library. If you selectively pick out games that have certain aspects which appeal to you, you're going to enjoy them a lot. Stay away from the "brain training and puzzle games" you speak of, and you'll still find something out of the 1200+ games the DS has.

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I think what Infernal's really trying to say is "Buy an Atari Lynx instead".

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Actually, lix there's about 500+ games. If you're guessing 1200+ games from the NDS rom websites, you've forgotten that most of those games are in Jap, US and European forms. But still, 500!!!!

Oops. Well, considering international releases are excluded, I'd say it's more around 700. Either way it's still a lot of games for a console which has only been out since 2004, which is 3 years. I don't even think the PS2 had that many that fast.

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Originally Posted by AcerBandit

GBA has Klax. =I

But a GBA is not an Atari Lynx.

Also yeah, the number is increased if there's a release of a game in Japan, America then/or Europe. So there's a portion of them that are actually the same game, just released elsewhere. Either because the language has been changed, or it's been released somewhere else by another publisher (lol Korean Mario Kart DS didn't come out until earlier this year) or it's in Multi5 for Europe.

I was speaking idiomatically.