The reason why Nintendo DS is #1

R4DS.

If you don' t have one, you are inferior. :D

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DS sucks.

If the Wii was only capable of 480i, it would have to be deinterlace it. - Emotep

Learn to use proper English. - Emotep

I have an American kid failing Geography. - Emotep

The DS has a good year, but as of right now the PSP is dominating. Don' t even start calling me a fanboy either, as I have both.

I would hardly call the psp Dominating when the ds is outselling it often 2:1.

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

DS sucks.

DS sucks not! [:' (]

The reason why the DS sells by the bucket load is that it is child friendly, with child friendly games.

Let me think:

Yoshi' s Island DS
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Harvest Moon DS
Hotel Dusk: Room 215
New Super Mario Bros.
Mario Kart DS
Final Fantasy III
Super Mario 64 DS
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Spirit Caller
Metroid Prime: Hunters
Children of Mana
Dr Kawashima' s Brain Training
Tetris DS
Elite Beat Agents
42 All-Time Classics
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
Super Mario 64
Trauma Center: Under the Knife
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney - Justice for All
Lost In Blue 2
Polarium
Pokémon Dash
Electroplankton
Age of Empires: The Age of Kings
Advance Wars: Dual Strike
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Zoo Keeper
Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits (Nintendo DS)
Megaman ZX
Wario Ware: Touched!
Sonic Rush

Off the top of my head, yes.. DS owns with ease..

PSP owns...

Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror
WipEout Pure
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Tekken: Dark Resurrection
Ridge Racer
Ridge Racer 2
Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops
Lumines II
Killzone: Liberation
LocoRoco
Daxter
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Hot Shots Golf 2
Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception
Lumines
Burnout Dominator
Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth
Virtua Tennis World Tour
Virtua Tennis 3
Pursuit Force
SSX On Tour
The Warriors
Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max
Mega Man Powered Up
Every Extend Extra
Gradius Collection
Chili Con Carnage
Mega Man Maverick Hunter X
Twisted Metal: Head-On
Monster Hunter Freedom
Metal Gear Acid 2
Metal Slug Anthology
Guilty Gear Judgment
Tokobot
OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast
Death Jr. 2: Root of Evil
Gitaroo Man Lives!
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Mercury Meltdown

...with ease!



But seriously, why does one have to be better than the other?

There' s nothing on DS that' s better than Tekken: Dark Resurrection, Portable Ops or Vice City Stories, ...and there' s nothing on PSP that' s better than Elite Beat Agents, New Super Mario Bros or Wario Ware: Touched!

If you know what i mean.

There is no R4PSP.

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ORIGINAL: Emotep

There is no R4PSP.

That' s true. PSP doesn' t require additional hardware for emulators and homebrew...

There is no R4PSP.

Please go die

I know its a stupid question but what is R4DS?

I would hardly call the psp Dominating when the ds is outselling it often 2:1.

I' m not talking about market share.

Pokémon Dash
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Spirit Caller
Tetris DS
Zoo Keeper

You were really hoping I just wouldn' t read the majority of your list weren' t you?

The DS has tons of good games, but while fun, the majority don' t keep my attention for very long. I can hear the argument that you' re not usually playing handhelds for that long, but I tend to kick back on the couch with mine & relax for an hour or so.

The DS has a great mix of quick Fix games and Games that you can play for hours.

Also ive noticed in contrast to PSP, DS has the control in both types of games with perfection, while PSP have alot of control problems.

I still play:

Metroid (by far the best Handheld FPS). A very deep, long game. Also has an extremely hardcore online community going.

Animal crossing, again a very involving deep single player game, with a good online community going on.

NSMB one of the most perfect handheld games I’ve played and has lasted a good 8 months so far. The design puts all other handheld Plattformers to shame.

Advanced Wars , Pure genius handheld gaming. very deep. Again by far the best in it’s genre.

Mario kart DS one of the best handhelds games, period. I’m still playing this either in time trials, online or link-up. Again, by far the best in it’s genre.

Tetris DS vs Hardcore Japanese players over wfi = Priceless.

PSP = milked down Console games with control Problems. I gave up on mine ages ago. Portable ops controls nearly had me throw it against a wall. grr

The last game i tried to play on psp i played smackdown vs raw 2007 on my friends psp. I chose a specialty match and just for that reason it made it load 5x as slow. It took around 8 min to load, and then i realized that i had ring entrances on which were another 5 min, and then when i actually played it was just like every other smackdown game... get your opponent on the ground and constantly do the same move over and over until you can pin them

That whole experience made me hate it forever

I played Electroplankton the other day. A very cool experience. More of a pastime than a game. Frankly I think we need more things that are just creative and interactive rather than always following the same goal-oriented paradigm that' s been regurgitated for 30 years in this industry.

R4DS

It' s a third-party cart that lets you run homebrew off the DS. I have one myself.

Personally, a DS that isn' t tricked out with third-party software isn' t all that great IMO. My R4DS has made my DS into an almost Palm-like organizer, media player, Ebook/Comicbook viewer, and decent web browser (though nothing on the PSP' s of course).

Not to mention all the SCUMMVM games Sure the PSP can run it too, but he DS is far suited to point-and-click games with its touchscreen than the PSP' s analogue control.

Plus, I thought the PSP needed something like HEN (Homebrew Enabler or something like that...) on specific firmware to get homebrew working?

Sounds interesting.

Only reason i haven' t bought a DS already is i don' t agree with its size. Its too f**king big for my liking. IMO its definately not pocket size which is why the psp is also out of the equation. I mean if you have to pack your wallet, your keys, your phone and a DS in your pants you got some serious overcrowding happening there. If you use a bag or case that to me is too much effort to carry a ' portable device' . I simply opted for a PDA phone, sure the games are crap (pocket Simcity nice) but it means i only have to put 3 things in my pocket and it does a decent job with multimedia, mp3s etc.

If i had a DS then this sounds like something i would get.

The lite' s about as small as my PSP.

I played Electroplankton the other day. A very cool experience. More of a pastime than a game.

That' s actually what I feel about my DS games right now. They' re tons of fun, but right now I want something a little different. In 3 months or so, I' ll probably be back to aggressively playing my DS, that' s just how I work I guess.

Yoshi' s Island DS
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Harvest Moon DS
Hotel Dusk: Room 215
New Super Mario Bros.
Mario Kart DS
Final Fantasy III
Super Mario 64 DS
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Spirit Caller
Metroid Prime: Hunters
Children of Mana
Dr Kawashima' s Brain Training
Tetris DS
Elite Beat Agents
42 All-Time Classics
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
Super Mario 64
Trauma Center: Under the Knife
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney - Justice for All
Lost In Blue 2
Polarium
Pokémon Dash
Electroplankton
Age of Empires: The Age of Kings
Advance Wars: Dual Strike
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Zoo Keeper
Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits (Nintendo DS)
Megaman ZX
Wario Ware: Touched!
Sonic Rush

Jump Superstars pwns almost all these games in my opinion. I really want Jump Ultimate Stars! Damn you ebayers!

Anywhooo both handhelds have their own advantages and disadvantages, just like every other gaming system. So I don' t get why everybody keeps going " this one is better... bla bla bla" .

Personally, I prefer the Gameboys.


PS. I quite like the strategic element of Yu-Gi-Oh...

Obviously psp> NDS.

Buuuut.

NDS will get the FF12 sequal(spin off) and the new DQ9.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

The PSP gets FFVII Crisis Core. Thank you God!

And that looks like crap,so stfu.

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

I guess you never saw the screenshots Majik posted huh?

ORIGINAL: ginjirou

I guess you never saw the screenshots Majik posted huh?

I see what you did there...

Crisis Core Screens

The lite' s about as small as my PSP.

personally, i hate the design of the lite. Id rather play the original any day

Handhelds are for geeks. While I' m in a night club surrounded by women, your broke ass is sitting in a bus station playing DS/PSP.

If the Wii was only capable of 480i, it would have to be deinterlace it. - Emotep

Learn to use proper English. - Emotep

I have an American kid failing Geography. - Emotep

Evil man, you are my Hero!

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

ORIGINAL: Evil Man

Handhelds are for geeks. While I' m in a night club surrounded by women, your broke ass is sitting in a bus station playing DS/PSP.

Nah, i' m flying first class to Barcelona playing DS/PSP.

Handhelds are for geeks. While I' m in a night club surrounded by women, your broke ass is sitting in a bus station playing DS/PSP.

I thought video games in general are geeky


.... Evil, are you Chadwarden? Do the " honeys crawl all over your PS Triple!" lol

I' ve had my DS for a week. Zoo Tycoon is so much fun.

Just dance, will ya?

ORIGINAL: mastachefbkw

Handhelds are for geeks. While I' m in a night club surrounded by women, your broke ass is sitting in a bus station playing DS/PSP.

I thought video games in general are geeky


.... Evil, are you Chadwarden? Do the " honeys crawl all over your PS Triple!" lol

It' s fine to have games to play at home when there' s nothing to do.

Having a handheld means you can' t even handle stepping out into the sun without having a fucking video game system with you. Get a life.

If the Wii was only capable of 480i, it would have to be deinterlace it. - Emotep

Learn to use proper English. - Emotep

I have an American kid failing Geography. - Emotep

okay ff7 to psp looked cool,btw what does psp cost and what kind of batteries is req?

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

ORIGINAL: Nitro

ORIGINAL: Evil Man

Handhelds are for geeks. While I' m in a night club surrounded by women, your broke ass is sitting in a bus station playing DS/PSP.

Nah, i' m flying first class to Barcelona playing DS/PSP.

Why do people even travel in planes within europe? My fucking neighborhood is bigger than Europe, it would take 5 minutes to drive to Barcelona, get a job.

If the Wii was only capable of 480i, it would have to be deinterlace it. - Emotep

Learn to use proper English. - Emotep

I have an American kid failing Geography. - Emotep

Having a handheld means you can' t even handle stepping out into the sun without having a fucking video game system with you. Get a life.

lmao

Handhelds are for geeks. While I' m in a night club surrounded by women, your broke ass is sitting in a bus station playing DS/PSP.

No, I' m stalking a girl I don' t know around the downtown area via a Memory Stick DUO she left at my place last night. Just ask the Sony ad division.

No, I' m stalking a girl I don' t know around the downtown area via a Memory Stick DUO she left at my place last night. Just ask the Sony ad division.

I hated that commercial. I was watching some movie on the USA network and they would go to commercials every 5 min. and every time they would show that commercial atleast twice

Having a handheld means you can' t even handle stepping out into the sun without having a fucking video game system with you. Get a life.

Actually, I hardly ever bring a handheld with me when I go out. Unless I' m going on a long journey and have nobody interesting to talk to.

PS. I quite like the strategic element of Yu-Gi-Oh...

I' m waiting for Tournament 2007 or whatever its name was.

Currently, I' m seriously hooked on Custom Robo Arena. The game is like playing Virtual-On (from the Rear POV). Too bad I can' t get my Wifi up anymore; it sucks not being able to play multiplayer.

I quite like the strategic element of Yu-Gi-Oh

I seen that programe a few times, its like they make it up as they go long. Funniest programe ever.

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!