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"DS Demo pods.."

Looks quite cool and I can certainly see it grabbing people's attention when they walk into a shop:

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Well done Nintendo.

Prophet wrote:
> I still can't decide between DS and PSP.
>
> At the moment I'm leaning towards DS.

I felt like that, but as soon as I played the DS, relising it was so much smaller than I thought, I instantly stuck to the DS and will do when it comes out in the UK.

gamesfreak wrote:
> pb wrote:
> They've got one in Comet (Exeter). Not bad at all, even my wife got
> quite into Wario Ware on it. Always a good sign when you've put
> another £130 on an already bulging credit card...
>
> Unless I'm thinking of something completely different, but I swear
> you said you'd moved to Spain?

Give it another year, and you'd be right!...

pb wrote:
> They've got one in Comet (Exeter). Not bad at all, even my wife got
> quite into Wario Ware on it. Always a good sign when you've put
> another £130 on an already bulging credit card...

Unless I'm thinking of something completely different, but I swear you said you'd moved to Spain?

For me it was always DS, but after having had one for about a month I can safely say I won't be purchasing a PSP in this lifetime. For me, it's all about the games themselves, not what other things the hardware does. Fair enough, the PSP plays MP3's and movies, but that just doesn't interest me at all. If I want to listen to MP3's, I'll take my MP3 player with me. If I want to watch a movie, I'll wait until I get home and watch it on a widescreen TV and with good sound, as opposed to squinting at a PSP screen and listening to it through tinny speakers.

And the DS games will be in a completely different league to PSP games. On the PSP you're going to get standard games with little or no innovation or personality. With DS, there are countless new ways to play games and we'll see developers bringing out new and genuinely innovative games. Plus Super Mario 64 DS has proved that you can take a classic 8 year old game and expand and improve it.

So in my opinion, the DS's innovation and a promising library of both updated versions of classic N64 games and new and exciting ideas means the PSP can kiss my rear end. By all means, I'll try and get an opportunity to play on one when they're released in the UK, but unless I see some truly breathtaking stuff, I'm barely remotely interested in it.

They've got one in Comet (Exeter). Not bad at all, even my wife got quite into Wario Ware on it. Always a good sign when you've put another £130 on an already bulging credit card...

play games on them both, see which you prefer.

I still can't decide between DS and PSP.

At the moment I'm leaning towards DS.

I have just got back home and I played on a DS pod exactly like that in GAME. It had wario ware touched! in it which was surprisingly good. The DS itself was alot smaller than I though it would be, only a little bigger than the SP, and the touch screen is very accurate. In the game, I got up to the second stage, the first stage consisted of 30 mini games and 1 boss game at the end. The demo pod has sealed my decesion of getting a DS, not a PSP.

That is quite possibly the coolest demo pod ever.

I suppose it would look less stupid in a games shop.