The PSP is a very nice handheld to have, some may say that it doesn't have many games but these people are wrong. Even if it wasn't for games the homebrew and emulation side of this thing is great and then theres videos, music & web browsing to add.

You can play PSX, very well as Sony themselves have released PSX games for it on their PSN network. N64 is possible too though like most consoles its not perfect but its closer than what the DS will ever do.

Also as for lifespan, expect an increase in games next year. A lot of developers and publishers gave up on the PSP very early which is why there are only a few games released a month but a lot of them now have seen how sales have increased and now have started to increase PSP game production.

The only thing I don't like are the controls but then I've always disliked Sony's controllers.

 

the psp has better graphics (duh) but the ds has a unique way of playing games because of the touch screen so its hard to decide

 

Good device with nice gfx, a nice game library (www.gamerankings.com to see if you like them too ) and awesome homebrew.


psp3000 got a brighter screen, a microphone, the "home" button is now a "P" button and the outside is less fingerprint sensitive. The TV output can now output actual gameplay so you can game on your tv screen i guess..

 

I have both and personally I like my DS Lite more... The PSP has some great features (with custom firmware), but with a flash cart and all of the homebrew apps that have been created I really like and use my DS more...

 

What, no poll?

Have me make my pick any day of the week I'll always choose an NDS. Sure right now I'd choose a PSP cause I already have a DS. XD;

I love the touchscreen, and two screens to play on. I love blowing in the mic and touching objects. The games are simply awesome, and the battery lasts much longer, and for me battery life matters ALOT when buying any portable device. PSP screen is also easy to scratch. I know from my Gameboy what a whole deal of harm that can do to a handheld's image quality after some time.

Homebrew/emulation-wise you'll never be able to play DS games on a PSP or viceversa, I'll pick DS games over PSP any time.

The only temptation I'd have getting a PSP is that I wish the DS had louder phones output. I'm a heavy music listener, and I value full blast volume very much.

 

I admit I use my PSP more than I do DS

PSP has auto-podcast updater, media player and some good games.

 

PSP will last for a decent amount of time. Though hardware is far superior, not enough games to take over the war and win. To me, there's only about 3 games that interest me, which are DJ Max portable, Guilty gear Accent core plus, and patapon.

The DS will last longer, due to more games in the whole library.

 

Yeh the worst part is he's not my little bro, he's my TWIN. ZOMFGWTF. I didn't know PSP could play GBA, that's pretty sweet, and NEOGEO is awesome.

Also, someone had said something bout the new PSP 3000 being uncustomizable which would suck, anyone confirm that?

Definately agree with the battery life, DS owns the shit out of that as far as handhelds go (lasts longer then my orig GBA did with the AA's). Also excellent storage with 8GB for all games and homebrew you ever need.

So, is the PSP similar to DS where there are a number of options of hacking tools or is it basically download firmware and go?

BTW, if someone can tell me how to add a poll to this topic I will.

 

After using a friend's PSP for a while, I'd give DS up forever for a PSP yo.

 

i have both handhelds but i like my ds more than the psp. The psp is great when it comes to emulation which is very good if you like playing games from earlier consoles like snes, megadrive/genesis, and even the gba and it emulates them a whole lot better than the ds can (well maybe except the gba games if you have a slot 2 for your DS). The graphics on the psp are also quite amazing, take a look at FFVII:Crisis Core or even God of War on the psp and you'll see what i mean, but even though the psp has really good graphics there really aren't that much great games for me on it whilst the DS has a load of really great games on it for me. One problem about the psp that i have is that the games are really huge in size, ranging from 100mb to around 1gb whilst the biggest DS game is only around 256mb, so you can have more games on the DS on a 8gb sdhc than on an 8gb pro stick duo on a psp. Either way i still like both of them but i find myself playing my DS more than the psp.

As for one of your questions you need a pandora's battery if you want to have custom firmware on a psp slim, but if you have the phat one you just need to downgrade your psp to fw1.5 then upgrade to a custom firmware from there.