"Funny how such a small country buys so much more."



It's not funny...in Japan lives more than 100 million... it's a big market.

The Japanese console market is smaller than the US console market. The USA has about 300 million people living in it.



Also, for the love of all that is chocolatey, DS and PSP fanboys don't start bickering.

That's another thing. The DS Lite should spur a lot of sales. The DS is one of my most-played systems, but it's pretty damn ugly and image-concious America is obviously wary of it. I've heard "I want a DS, but I'm waiting for the DS Lite" on countless message boards. Whatever month Nintendo releases the DS Lite in might be a change of momentum.



Then we have Pokemon Diamond/Pearl.

The psp needs better software or it will die a horrible death at the hands of Nintendo's first party titles (if anyone's seen gameplay videos of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, played a link up Mario Kart DS round, or even *****in picto-chatted, you KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT) and the Lite. The only survivors will be the post-apocalyptic, battle-torn homebrewers (the psp DEFINITELY has more homebew capabilities) if things go the way i think they're going to...



but then i see games like Loco Roco.

Will it offend some (ie, most) gamers with its cutesy design? Probably.

Will it play like a dream? Who knows.

Is it something no one has ever seen before? The answer to THIS question is a most resounding yes.



Yeah, most people will glance it over but anyone who's ever found something to love in game's that were a little off the wall ( Pikmin, Viewtiful Joe and Warioware, I'm staring in your direction ) Knows that there's something engrossing with experiencing games in a way you never dreamed possible.



Not that sony should focus on these type of innovative games entirely either. They should just know, if they dont offer something that nintendo cant aside from graphics and a shoddy analog stick (Side note: Guess what? DS is getting web browsing too, suckas. Add a stylus to that scenario and the psp alternative soon becomes horribly obsolete), theyre *****ed.



The End.,

this can only be healthy for the GAMES!!!!!!!

screw which is the best consol on lets be happy for the games

My two favorite consoles are considered trash in Japan, my xbox and psp. Both of these are homebrew heavy and have better graphics. Im not a fanboy but I am confused as to what peole in Japan are thinking when buying handhelds and consoles.

To no. 22, all i can say is watch a group of 4 guys kart it out on DS's. The psp needs better games man. The possibilities presented by stronger specs are meaningless if there's no one to pursue/ take advantage of them.

I have a lot of demands for psp too and as far as im concerned, theyre not being met. The game selection is DOG *****. I need at least ONE rpg that isnt pappy crap made by unknown and inexperienced developers. Square Enix, throw me a frickin bone here. Or maybe a Castlevania game for psp owners? Whats with the 2d castlevania grapplehold nintendo has on konami? At least Ultimate Ghouls n Ghosts is coming soon...

Like a lot of ppl on this thread, I agree; it doesn't take much to see why DS is thrashing PSP here in Japan. PSP games, with a few shining outliers, for the most part are unoriginal and uninspired. But for Katamari (which isn't a PSP original concept anyway) and Tokobots there haven't been any real innovative titles for the PSP at all. Look at DS games and half of their library seems like innovative, imaginative games. Gamers in Japan aren't looking for another pretty racing title...they're looking for something new that actually entertains them.



Every day I look at PSP news hoping for a really cool breakthrough PSP game and every day it's the same "oh boy, another 3d shooter/adventure game" or "whoopee another racing game." Loco Roco is the only game I'm looking forward to. Got a chance to play it and the minute I did so I thought "THIS is what developers should be doing."



PSP is a beautiful and powerful system, but to be perfectly honest the only reason I pick mine up is to play homebrew. What's wrong with that picture?

LOAD TIME!!!! sony stupid UMD is slow like a turtle...Good Graphic or not noone like to wait especially when you are on the move.

SONY, you have created an excellent system and I definitely enjoy it, but if it is to stand up to the DS you need to establish fewer limits on what it can do. Please do what you can to allow the full potential of the PSP to finally be unlocked and utilized, we all know the PSP has the capability to do so much more. Here are a few simple suggestions:





The PSP has the ability to make user of a 333 MHz processor, using it translates to better and smoother running games. Worried about battery life? Just release a higher capacity battery. People will buy it.



The memory stick video has the ability to play at full resolution, please allow it. One of the reasons why UMD movies failed to sell was because people were standoffish over the fact that movies they already owned and copied to memory sticks always played at a lower resolution. Since UMD movie sales are poor at the moment allowing full resolution video from the memory stick on the PSP would not actually hurt at this point.



There is a homebrew community that is creating some decent software for the PSP (eg. chat/IRC, using a file manager, wirelessly accessing and transferring files between a PC and the PSP, etc.), I am certain that they would supply the source code to these programs which can then be bug tested and fixed, and then encrypted to be a part of the next firmware update. After all, those who do not pirate games but still use homebrew mainly do so because it provides features they desire. You have already incorporated several features that have become available in homebrew and that is a good start, so just work a bit harder on this and you will soon have many people willingly leaving the homebrew scene. I also still believe that full flash player game support should be available in the next firmware update instead of limited compatibility with flash since it will not allow piracy or games that come close to commercial PSP games but will satisfy people who enjoy homebrew. This will definitely end the headaches caused by this whole "SONY vs Homebrew" crap.



Instead of releasing PS1 games online, I would like to suggest utilizing the full capacity of the UMD's storage space and releasing PS1 game packs consisting of several games. First of all, this will prevent the PS1 memory stick games you are intending to release from being pirated. Since not everybody will have a credit card to purchase and download these games with this will also give gamers more chances to purchase them. This would also justify the amount of storage space on the UMDs and ensure that people stop complaining that it is not being utilized. I would pay $100 for a UMD if it meant paying only $10 to $20 for each included game.





I will immediately e-mail what I typed here to SONY, I doubt that SONY has the time to read through all comment sections and forums but if people e-mail SONY and tell this company what they want and they receive enough requests for a certain feature then they would definitely have to address this request just to stop their in box from being flooded.



But then, I suppose that most people will not bother to e-mail SONY and will instead choose to whine and moan here about stuff they want like little babies. We are better than this. After all, how do we expect any manufacturer or developer to suit opur needs if we do not tell them what our needs are?

"I care about top quality LCD widescreen, slim design, COOL 3D action games, 480x272 video and mp3 playback!"



Screen ghosting, unprotected screen, fingerprints, and UMD movies are big problems with those things.

#35 and #39: You two should read the entire post before spazzing out. I listed GBA figures because the GBA sells MORE than the DS and PSP in the USA. It's sold more than the two systems for months now. Also, I know that DS is winning worldwide. This is an article about the USA and I state that in the article.



#23: In my opinion, pricing is a crutch. To remain competitive, you need a competitive price. Nintendo sacrificed graphics and sound for an affordable price. Sony sacrificed an affordable price for graphics and sound. If you say, "it's because of the price" others can easily say "it's because of the power" Really. The GCN launched at $300 Canadian while the PS2 and Xbox launched at $450. That did not help. Pricing is all part of a company's strategy.



#30: The problem with Europe is that it's very hard for me to find stats. There is no unified sales tracking service like there is in the USA and Japan. If you want some indications though, the DS launched I think 8 months before the PSP. Nintendogs has sold better in Europe than Japan and the USA. I know that the DS is ahead of the PSP in Europe, but I'm not sure by exactly how much.

I think that the games are the key reason why nintendo are selling so many DS's. When i first looked at which system I was going to get, i was totaly ready to get the DS. I even saved up enough to get it but then the sheer technological power of the PSP caught my eye and im definetly a sucker for gadgets. The reason i wanted the DS in the first place was that the games being released for it seemed new and fresh compared to those on say the PS2.



The thing that i would say IMO is that the gamming industry has become a little stale over the years. The only real improovements to game play (excluding eye toy n socom) that there has been between the PS1 and the PS2 is better graphics and more responsive game play. (trust me after playing SSX try playing Cool Boarders 4 from the PS1 and you will get what i mean.). Now I am not saying that there is anything wrong with this in the end but it does mean for me that games have a lot shorter life span as you are just playing the same sort of thing over n over.



Now when it comes to the PSP, i own 6 games. 4 of these are ports of games from the PS2. 1 is a port of an amiga game (lemmings) and 1 is to my knowledge a totaly original game (grip shift). Out of all these games I think the one I will end up playing for the longest time will be lemmings, possibly because it was one of the first games i ever got into as a child but also posibly because i find it to be the most original game out there as there really isnt anything else like it.



The PSP to me feels very much like a little brother of the PS2. I feel at the moment Sony just want to make it a portable playstation 2 rather than something new and refreshing. I think in the end sony and other publishers are putting these games onto the PSP because they know that they are winners and are going to sell. Simply because they have been proven to sell over n over. The thing is, they seem scared to take a chance on different and new ideas just incase they do not work and loose lots of money. If you look at the PS2 the inervative games like Eye Toy only started being released after the PS2 had made backl all of its production costs and so sony could take a few more risks.



Now this battle with nintendo could lead to two things. Firstly Sony might realise that putting different games out there will intise more gamers. Secondly it might make sonyt even more worried about loosing and so stick to there guns even more until they know they have room to breathe.



I think in the short term what i'm interested in seeing is more old old ports. Ie like lemmings originaly from the Amiga. I heard that James Pond was going to be released on the PSP and that sounds great to me. It was such a classic game and I'd love to be able to play it again.



In the long run though, and this goes for the entire gaming industry, i think we need to start seeing new ideas surface, otherwise people will get alienated by boring re hashes of generation before games.



wow this was long, sorry lol.

had a psp sold it and bought a ds lite. No games at all for the psp. My ds can do everything my psp can and the games are better. Graphically no, gameplay by far.

DECENT games? I bet more copies of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass sell than any game released for the psp, past and present. In fact, i bet it sells more than the top 2 psp titles. You know why? It's going to have quality gameplay (of course it will. Its a zelda game and i SWEAR, if anyone brings up the cd-i games...) but it also presents gameplay ideas no ones ever tackled before.



Sorry if i seem a bit zealous. I can only say that of all the psp games out there (ive tried em all), theres not one with the type of flair that even one first party ds game. You could almost pick ANY game aside from the shameless super mario 64 port that was only done to prove the ds could handle/improve on 64 games. This was the only game on the ds to follow Sony's whole marketting procedure of "Resell our proven console games on the small screen with little to no changes applied" and look how well it worked for them. Funny that Mario 64 is a commonly used example by psp-fan boys. Thats because its the only good example to support their arguments but, in the end, fails for the same reasons almost every psp title will fail. Shoddy Controls (i dont care what anyone says, that little analog "nub" sucks my balls off) and lack of innovation. Sad but true.



Oh, and for the record, the ds lite is going to mop up in the us. DS is being beaten in the us because we live in a very shallow country. We see a freakishly large hamburger system with a screen display that i can only describe as muddy where as the Japanese see that it has titles with more character in just their gameplay mechanics than anything that has tried to be pushed on the psp (so far at least). Now, when the ds lite comes out, the sexy little slice of the ipod pie with its screens that look like they may even be brighter than the psp's istelf, i realize that in less than a month, im finally going to be shelling out for a ds.



Reasons:

Mario Kart DS

New Super Mario Bros.

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

WarioWare Touched

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow

Picto-Chat (really captures that "3rd grade, passing ludicrous notes in class that just keep getting crazier" sense)

Web Browsing (with Stylus)

Hell, maybe even Princess Peach



What i can already say tho is that those few titles (about half are released) have spunk and strike my interest whereas everything on the psp seems like a rehash of a rehash. True, it has homebrew but, if thats ALL a system has going for it, the main company itself is going to close up shop and then nintendo wins the handheld game again. Sony, get your ***** together or youre done for. REAL gamers need games.

I owned a DS but once i got in touch with the PSP i never looked back at my DS.

*****s

The nintendo has better games and that why it sells so much the psp has a crappy games, i am gonna be srtaight I pirate psp games, so I've plaied them all and noe not even one could be compared to metroin prime hunter or mario cart and don't let me get started on that zelda phantom hour glass and mario.

You guys are a bunch of fanboys. get a life like i don't have.

I have yet to find a single fun game on the PSP, and i've played them all. On the other hand, 85% of the DS games i've played... I can not put down. From my stand point, the PSP pales in compairison to any console, ever. I'll take the original Gameboy over a PSP any day.

dudes...all you psp fanboys are just stating that the psp has better graphics, wahoo in terms of games the ds blows the psp out, and you call the psp owning with those figures? hmmmm...i dont think so

...Just because... look at the statistics people! Japan only! GBA sells aslmost half of what PSP sells....I have a PSP 1.50, don't own a DS or a GBA(but I do own some GBA games for play on my GCube). It's a proven fact that PSP games are suffering of very low re-playability, not to mention other annoying factors like loading taking forever and ported collections being badly reformated (everybody seem to fail to deliver old-school favorites in new widescreen format...NOTE TO GAME HOUSES: MAKE A SIMPLE SCREEN PANNING OPTION IN THE GAME, IDIOTS! Hey, the TYL people have done it with the SNES emulator...It's so amazing that BigShots like CAPCOM that have been around forever keep stretching thei games making every single sprite look like a F-ing gnome from the north pole...I don't know you but this greatly dissapointed me once I started playing Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max after forking $50 for what every news article in the net promissed was well on it's way to being, and I quote:"The first faithful port of a great fighter series, now in all it's widescreen glory!!!" what a bunch of kiss-ass *****s. Same thing goes with the MK games in Midway Arcade treasures, and a whole bunch of other games....)

If this type of abuse keeps up I'm not gonna buy a single game for PSP again. I'm 100% happy with homebrew though.

+ DS games like Castlevania are much better than the crap we're all getting served.

Lumines is still by far my favorite PSP game...and sadly, that's a launch title.

I'm amazed that there are still psp owners who say there are no games. Obviously you are looking in the wrong place. No regional coding is where its at seeing as how 90% of the games I play on my psp are only in Japan so far. I know DS has no regional coding and thats great but until it has at least 5 games that I think look even remotely interesting, I'll hold off on buying one. And yes I am aware of whats out and even whats coming out for it (i read through the whole game list on gamefaqs). Seriously though "Sweet, new Advance Wars....................1 year later...........sweet, new Zelda, eventually." 2 games ain't enough and one of em isn't even out.:(



PS - Where are the DS adult themed games? You've been slackin Japan! I thought a touch screen based system was made for this! XD

#62, those games are what make Nintendo good.



And all of you PSP fanboys should shut up. The DS is just as good as the PSP in it's own ways. Keep your opinions to yourself.

PSP for homebrew, DS for piracy.



Currently, it's PSP for both. Although having a DS would be having another handheld for homebrew and piracy. (:

psp (+l l:)



is the best system ..but i really want a ds..but if psp should start getting better games like god or war(wow)..or a good ff..



i want monster hunter..



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psp= the best portable device

"The ds is superior in every way to the psp by the way, except for graphics, and those dont matter in hand helds"

Oh yea totally. DS pwns, i mean aesthetics, storage, media capabilities, game media capacity, screen resolution, sound quality, homebrew software/emulation, core hardware speeds, 3rd party software support DS beats PSP in "every way" you *****ing idiot.

"As a European i want to see our market results. In Japan the ds is winning, in America its a tie but what about Europe. I know it would be hard because you would have to collect the results from different countries but i would still like to know who is doing better. I think the psp is selling better because you see more people with them than the ds however i want to know the score in the overall market"



The NDS is leading with over 1 million untis in Europe and totally trash the psp in software sale(just like japan) with for example nintendo dogs that sold over 2 million copies (the PSP doesnt even have a platinum in europe yet) .



http://www.gamebiz.com.au/nintendo/news.php?action=display&id=8302

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/nintendogs/europe-falls-for-nintendogs-155180.php



The DS and PSP my be tied in USA but the NDS i leading by big marginals in the rest of the world . And it totally trashes the psp in software sales which shouldnt come as a suprise , the current console/game ratio for PSP is actually lower than 1:2 . We all know its the games that makes the money and with the end of umd movies in sight the PSP could be in big trouble since it hasnt been profitable (or very little) for Sony yet . I wouldnt be suprised if Sony stopped producing the PSP within a year or so beacuse of its current finacial situation .

The point of sales is to gain the company money and increase marketshare. The Xbox lost 4 billion dollars. Does Bill Gates care? Not really. He just broke into the home console market in a huge way.



Also, was I just called biased towards the PSP? Here's some info for you buddy. I'm biased towards the DS. I write primarily for the DS and Revolution QJ blogs. I have a DS. I don't have a PSP. The PSP doesn't interest me in the slightest.



Understand what you're talking about before handing out false accusations.

PSP went up by 16k. Here's the problem though.. it had way more noteworthy releases than DS in March:



Me & My Katamari

Untold Legends 2

Metal Gear Acid 2

Daxter

Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror

Mega Man Powered Up

Persuit Force (late Feb)



Not a SINGLE one of them were in the top 25 for $$$ and they all cost $40 I believe (except Mega Man).



PLUS, the "price drop" happened where you could get PSP for $200. If PSP couldn't break away from DS in March, I'm sorry to say, it never will. ESPECIALLY with the DS Lite coming out in May. I'm fairly sure DS will be outselling PSP for the rest of the year at -least- thanks to the Lite.

U nintendo-fanboys are so stupid. Why play at a console with slower processor than a speaker?

With games like Mario, Nintendogs who are games that are going to get 300 followers like: Nintendogs Party, Pinball, sunshine*****ii ng*****inthehel l?



Do something right: Buy a PSP

Wow, you're an idiot. The only thing you care about is power, no wonder you bought a PSP. I know many people who bought a PSP, and the only reason they use it is to show off that it can play music, videos and has good graphics.



The PSP was selling a lot during the beginning of it's life because it had good graphics and games that were on consoles. The DS caught up and pwned it in games, and it will continue to pwn it. The games that come out for PSP are just one big dissapointment after a next.

"The Metal Gear Acid games and Ultimate Ghouls n Ghosts are the only reason i havent sold my psp yet. Nahhhh, i wouldnt ever sell my psp, not with homebrew capabilities as they currently are but what im saying is that there are barely any game that are good at all on the psp."



I'd like to point out that PSP doesn't have a decent MAME port or even attempted a Neogeo MVS games

I originally bought a psp over the ds and went so far as to call the ds names like "baby system" and "crap" because my friends kept telling me how good it was and that psp sucked. I was so angry at them because I knew I had the superior hardware. I eventually got into homebrew and thought it was the best thing ever. But then Sony got stupid and released firmware updates so now my psp is still 1.5 and I can't play any new games. Not like I want to, cause there are no good ones. So in light of this, I bought a ds a few months ago and now I own a ds lite. I have metroid, bleach, children of mana, mario kart, castelvania and tetris. I have hardly put the ds down and play wifi every night. Sony needs to wake up and embrace homebrew while they work on some new and original games . The psp is much more powerful which is nice but means nothing in the end. For a little extra money I can buy a 4gb flash drive for my lite that can run homebrew/mp3's and movies which makes my reason for owning a psp void. It is really frustrating to have such a beautiful piece of hardware and not be using it. I will never sell my psp but the thought has come to mind more than once. I honestly don't think I will ever buy another PSP game and might just ignore the PS3 completly if this is how the games are going to be. Flame me all you want but my eyes are open, Sony doesn't care about us. I doubt they even care about games period. They will probably remain #1 with the ps3 but the revolution will have way better possibilties while being inferior to the ps3. Console wars suck, but Nintendo DS is dominating the PSP in every aspect everywhere. I predict the lite will swallow the psp entirely.

used to be a psp fanboy is so right the psp dosn't suck but sony could have done better seeing that sony is a multi-Billion dollar companny im ashamed my self 2 ouw a psp

About the Neo·Geo MVS emulator, it can't really be done because of the lack of RAM. MVS cartridges could be really big in size, and the PSP can't handle that. You have the Neo·Geo CD emulator, though.

I got to say.



Homebrew scene for psp are much more advanced then the ds counterpart.



So if you are only into homebrew then psp is the choise.



About real games though. I have GTA and Lumines to the PSP. Lumines is darn good i got to say. But thats about it for me. The only thing i look forward to is the ps1 emulator to play old rpgs i missed (not to many i missed).



While the DS Lite is with me where ever i go.

The games are so addicting its freaking insane.

Try playing Oueandan or Band brothers for a day and say you didnt enjoy it. It's impossible. So for the people actuallt wanting a handheld to play games on instead of homebrew the DS is the right choise.

Its simple you wanna play cute little kiddy games like brushing your dog or play tetris get a lame DS

You want full on gameing SOCOM 16 On-line etc (The games are comming now)and full multimedia Its simply gotta be a PSP.

even tho you say the psp is better in the sense that its geared towardds older audience... world wide..... ds smashes the psp..... who would of figured.. lol but take into account differnt cultures differnt prefences..... i think that in the US the psp is the better system as a whole.... but i cant say fo the rest of the world..... oh well :/.... maybe this means that the rest of the world is childish???? lol US rules!!! rofl

Plus!I already have aPSP!When I first got it I was hoping it would be bursting out with good Games and I thought multimedia would be great!But It's bursting out with *****!Excuse my language,but personally you can't call those games!Multimedi a ain't so great!I look at photos !It gets boring...I listen to music!Dull!I browse the internet!It doesn't have enough memory or isn't compatible with site!Watch Movies!Stale!An d don't let me get started on the games!Of course the graphics are great, but the gameplay is a different story...*****!That's how it is !Listen...I was once like a PSP fanboy ...I thought it was better than DS becausee it had those functions!But man oh man I was wrong!Now excuse me! let me play the best racing game of 2005 that beat Burn Out!That's right ,Mario Kart DS!This is proof that good gameplay,qualit y,and possbilities is far supirior to flashy graphics and that multi media crap!

oh boy, i just wanted to sa this, theres a PSP craze in our country. Sorry Nintendo

i wonder why nintendo is going to release DS lite, maybe its because the old DS model didnt impressed the consumers,again .... sorry nintendo

DS is not childish!It's got games for everyone.From E to M ratings.PSP doesn't have quality games.Alright here are some of my descriptions of the 2 handhelds:DS and PSP both have great graphics.DS doesn't have graphics quite as good as the PSP's but it's graphics are really good and produce very impressive 3d visuals.The DS can pull off any PSP game.But for graphics,I'd say there both equal.For design I choose the psp but DS lite has a better design than both.And games,well the DS.PSP doesn't have enough actual goodgames to make a difference.Only 4.While DS has over 100's of good and mostly perfect games.While the PSP out numbers the DS in games but the games aren't good at all.I traded in my PSP and can't even miss it!Price doesn't matter.The PS2 outstoled the gamecube even though it was much more exspensive.The PSP is no excuse specially since the price is lowering.DS is also getting multimedia so sony is in trouble.Nintendo will always patrol the handheld market and soon the console market.

All my friends would rather have a Nintendo DS Lite rather than a PSP. Why? Because PSP games are more expensive, Because the PSP itself is more expensive, Because, ffs, THE SONY COMPANY IS HUGE AND EVIL!



What *****. The PSP is way better, and that's just my opinion, because of the kinds of games i play.



I don't really care a damn about small little pure cartoony characters like Mario, Luigi, and Donkey Kong... i prefer games like FIFA, God of War, Gun, Tekken, Devil May Cry, and GTA.



I seriously don't understand why some people play the exact same games that were played with just as much hype ten years ago.



and please don't comment on the price difference, kthnx