DS sold more because there's way too many children that have all the free time to play. PSP is for adults who may not have all the time in the world, so... you get what i mean. Also DS came out earlier. Too many ppl at the time had their heads up the DS's a$$ and didn't pay attention to the PSP until good games started releasing.

Developers usually go for something that has more customer based support then just brand. PSP's good. for sure!. but then again. Nintendo's where the money is at. sides. there is the problem with Piracy. even if there IS piracy in DS. the games are usually cheaper so people can forget about going piracy. PSP on the other hand. well. lets just say the popularity of CFW and people using it for piracy and free games. well. i guess that's pretty bad. can't say i am innocent. i do have a CFW on my PSP. =)

you mean like these?



http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/164894583_bd1e198c60.jpg



They're called game cards. Nintendo picked up on this a long time ago.

That would be a step backwards cause it would cost a lot more. Sony went with UMD when it had a memory stick for a reason, UMDs cost less than a buck to make at 1.8 gigabytes. If developers went with downloads/solid state mediums, they would be pressured by the publisher to decrease filesizes (sacrificing quality) to save money.



Sony should never drop UMD, it's the most innovative thing to happen to a handheld in decades

Oh come off it.



The overwhelming majority of PS2 games were cack, yet it had more highly rated games than the other systems. Low rated games DO NOT AFFECT how good the better games are.

And the DS has more higher rated games. Go look at how many DS/PSP games are above 75% on Metacritic, and then have a look at how many DS/PSP games are above 90%. You'll find the PSP has 1.



But WTF why are people so caught up on this? I pretty much play the PSP now as my main system, the DS gets a play when awesome games are released, so about twice a year. I'm 23 and enjoy the DS a hell of a lot when the time comes.



And no. The DS and PSP were out at roughly the same time (the PS3 was out 3 days before the Wii too, release dates mean little when they're so close) apart from the 9 month wait in Europe.



But what a terrible launch. All them dead pixels, all them poor games. It took me 2 years to get a few games for it that I classed as "must haves".

Ok, this might sound a bit naive, but, I last looked, I could buy a 2GB USB drive (Flash memory) for only $10 AUS. Now this is RETAIL price. So once you take away shipping, currency conversion, etc. it would be much cheaper.



So what if they would have to spend about $2-4 AUS for a memory stick? It would bring so many benefits that the slight cost is well worth it.

The cost of a usb drive is not the cost of memory stick nor is the difference slight. It adds up to millions quite fast

This whole debate reminds me of the main reason Microsoft makes a bigger profit on every computer they sell compared to Apple.

It costs Microsoft 95 cents to stamp a disk with Windows on it, while Dell, Compaq, Gateway, etc. spend all the money on producing the hardware. Microsoft makes a large profit.

Apple, on the other hand, makes both their hardware and software, so it's a much bigger loss for them.



I guess you can sort of apply this here, but in this case the cheaper production cost is losing.

Wtf? Do you know what you're even talking about?



http://www.google.com/search?client+safari+rls+en-us+q+apple+financial+report+ie+UTF-8+oe+UTF-8



Apple are the 3rd most sold computer manufacturer and are making a very hefty profit.

Yes I did check. However I averaged the total scores together, and PSPs library rated higher. And considering how many more games you claimed DS has, having only 8 more games above 75% just goes to show how bad the rest of the library is. PSPs library is rated higher



I even made a program that averages the scores up for me ages ago.



And yes, you are a liar. Your claim that all launch games sucked and all launch PSPs had dead pixels was a flat out lie

First of all to the argument between adults playing what and kids playing what, I'm gonna come out with complete honesty instead of fanboyism and say that over 99% of people you see playing a psp or ds are all kids (and im saying this becuz ive never seen an adult playing it anywhere, but theres gptta be a small few...). Also both portable suck. Wow so the DS had 4 games rated higher than 90% and the PSP 1? this doesnt say which portable console is best, only which one is worse, and its like saying the crap I took yesterday wasn't as bad as the one I took today yet both were horrendous. So the PSP has sold 50 mill units and an average of 4 games per unit? and the DS like 70 mill and an average of 6 games per unit? I guess theyre both ok, making a good amount of money, yet not doesnt excuse what a failure both systes are. Lets not forget what an awesome prtable the GBA was, there were over 20 games for it that deserved over 90% score, too bad developers this days have commercialized themselves so much as to create so many crap games in order to produce more and save on production costs...



Just in case, I do have a PSP (though not a DS but have played it) and to be honest all games on it suck (except Patapon 2, that game is so good and prime example of great developer's innovation) and yes I've played games people try to say theyre god like GTA LCS and VCS, God of War CO, metal gear portable ops, and FF:CC, but in reality they're not good enough to call them great games. The only reason I have a PSP is for emulators, playing SNES, GBA, PS1 and N64 games (and I wont need the PSP anymore once I get a Pandora).

i dont care anymore.. i hardly play my psp now because of lack of good games, and great games are always late to be release.. if not for the djmax series which are the only games im playing, i wouldve already sold mine..

where!?

and what is that?