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"Had to laugh - NDS v PSP ... "past meets future""

"One thing is for sure, out of the box, the PSP looks very stylish and is a very well-designed concept. Put it next to the NDS and it feels like one of those visions when past meets future."


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This is - believe it or not - the first time I have seen a picture of the NDS, and I have to say it looks (to my tastes, anyway) to have all the style of an 80's mobile.

If the original PS2 was Darth Vader's toaster, then the NDS is C3PO's waffle-maker. :-)

Wario Ware.

Ahar. A perfect hand held game.

Not saying PSP won't have fantastic games, but from my impressions, it's a portable PS2. Which of course, is impressive.

But not from a gaming point of view, considering the best PS2 games are RPGS (well, I think so - and they're great), which need involved play. Not a 5 minute bus journey.

Wario Ware + Touch Screen = game of the century.
It'll be painfully >

Although I'm still considering a PSP, I have to question the availability of truly 'fun' games.

DS
Feel The Magic
Wario Ware
Yoshi: Touch & Go
Super Mario 64
Super Mario Bros.
Bomberman DS
many more

Maybe I'm not fully up-to-speed with the PSP release line-up, but I honestly cannot think of a PSP game that will be more 'fun' than any of those listed above

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Same here - something I realised is that, on a handheld, you never
> want to play a big, involved game. If they made exactly the same game
> for a proper console, then for a handheld - the handheld one would
> get nothing near the kind of commitment or patience the big version
> would get.


Err. yeah, hence the success of FF 1 & 2 and Golden Sun etc on GBA...

Certain RPGs do work on portables.

Played well over a 100 hours on pokemon.

Darwock wrote:

>
> Err. yeah, hence the success of FF 1 & 2 and Golden Sun etc on
> GBA...

Oh yeah Major successes :P

They sold alright but that was to a hardcore fanbase.

Pokemon, that was a major success.

Nintendo DS has sold over 1.2 million worldwide already with a predicted 2 million shipped by Christmas.

Sony will only be releasing 500,000 PSP's in Japan by the end of the year.

Can see the point about RPG's, i guess it'd be good for people who have to pop on a train every day for a couple of hours but for those who only have a 10 minute bus journey it wouldn't be worthwhile really. Ah well here's hoping you can get an emulator for it and play them on the PC :-D

DS is certainly an ugly beast.

Doesn't really matter though, I'm not looking to sex it.

Dringo wrote:
> Oh yeah Major successes :P

Unlike you Dringo I do not think purely in terms of market shares, sales figures and financial performance. I described those games as 'successes' because they are very good, and suit the handheld platform they are on.

lalakersrule wrote:
> Can see the point about RPG's, i guess it'd be good for people who
> have to pop on a train every day for a couple of hours but for those
> who only have a 10 minute bus journey it wouldn't be worthwhile
> really. Ah well here's hoping you can get an emulator for it and play
> them on the PC :-D

Reported.

(:D)

Just joking. Anyhoo, I agree. There are some tob GBA emulators, which I reckon is one of the main reasons why handhelds are so poor, all games are either poor or uninventine, and though that may be combated briefly by the DS, how long will it be before we see a two screen emulator?

PSP emulators will probably reach our shores aronud the same time as the actual console though, so tough on SONY.