[Question] NDS Lite vs PSP?

I've never been a fan of the current PSP...The low battery life, controls, godawful/laughable load times, and (until recently) the library have all been major turnoffs for me. I say recently about the library because over the past year and a half or so, it has mustered just enough games for me to justify a purchase. At least, the remodeled version. The remade Megaman games, Ghosts and Goblins, Princess Crown and Gurumin make the old-school gamer in me very tempted.

BUT...

Between the 2D platform goodness, easy WiFi access, strong support, GBA access (Puzzle Fighter/Namco Museum on the go is too good!), much superior design and Tetris DS/Planet Puzzle League (both online!), I'd say the DS is the better of the two by far. And I just mean the original, big one...The Lite is sexy, but I like my original too much to give it up. I like the touch screen as well, but more as an afterthought to the quality of the actual games.

I'm not sure how easy it is to run backups of commercial games on a PSP, but I do know it's really easy on a DS with a simple cart (not to mention it gives you emulators, music, movies, etc on top of it). The firmware BS for the PSP has always given me a headache, so I haven't explored emulating anything for fear of ending up with a bricked unit.

Edit: Actually, for RPG's, there's Mario and Luigi 2 and Advance Wars DS. Plus the entire GBA catalogue...That means FFVI Advance.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by SouthJag

The PSP, on the other hand, has games I'd sit down for hours and play; Valkyrie Profile, Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters, both of the Mega Man games, Dragonner's Aria, Brave Story, Kingdom of Paradise, Jeanne d'Arc, Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, the two FF remakes (though you can get those on the GBA), Tales of the World, and (import only) Breath of Fire 3 and Tales of Eternia.

Yes, but...Most of those are RPG's and/or ports/remakes. Kind of unfair to compare against a library of "puzzle games and brain-training games", when the 2D platformers available were such a key decision for me to get a DS to begin with and most of the games are original or at least do something radically different (read: online for Puzzle League). I love RPG's, but: A) DS has them as well and fewer straight ports (though probably fewer overall) B) DS has a ready-made GBA slot, so you can readily factor in the entire GBA library. C) The amount of original RPG's on PS2 dwarfs the amounts on both systems by a considerable margin if we're not factoring in portability.

Not a fair comparison there, I thought. I think part of the DS' success has been due to casual games, but saying it's basically all "puzzle games and brain-training games" isn't even close to accurate (Nintendo has, what, 3-4 brain training games out? That's like 2% of the entire DS library!). Especially when the biggest and (IMO) only original PSP game worth owning for ages was Lumines and Sony spent most of their advertising on the system's non-gaming features (I actually can't remember a single commercial for an exclusive PSP game).

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Eh, I'd say about half of those are questionable as straight puzzle games one would normally think of (Tetris, Puzzle League, etc...) and a number of those games are pending releases. Besides, I didn't say DS didn't have plenty of puzzle games...I said they didn't have that many brain-training games (Big Brain Academy, etc).

I'm not trying to be negative either, but I don't think that was a particularly accurate take on the DS library. I actually think PSP has built a fine library...My problem is so much of it is scaled down versions of PS2 games and ports/remakes. Unless there's a ton I'm missing...I do like the RPG selection though (granted, the main game I want to play is a Japanese PC port, but that's beside the point, since Gurumin was never released here on PC!), but I have too many to play between my home systems and GBA/DS.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.