DS vs the PSP (and why i think DS will win)

The DS will probably win because of its release date. Think about it, lots of people will want it for Christmas. This will raise sales of the DS a lot. If the PSP comes out soon after Christmas nobody will buy it because a) it will probably be a bit more expensive and b) everyone already spent their money at Christmas time. if they release in around April or May nobody will want to buy it because the DS wil have many great games and the DS will be cheaper than the PSP (the PSP will proably be from $200 - $250 while the DS id $150). WHat do you think will happen???

well from what I remember PSP is to cost approx 300 bucks... so 2 DS's for 1 PSP. second yea, it's comin out first. I believe the average income video gamer will buy the DS, and the rich income Video Gamer will buy the PSP. which out weighs which? The average... hense Average's definition.

I have no idea, and I don't even care. If I was going to buy one of these systems, it'd be the DS.

The PSP will probably be around 200 bucks. So that's not

Originally Posted by Link Messiah

DS's for 1 PSP.

wwww, the PSP has alot of good games lined up too.

But, frankly, I don't care who wins. I'm guessing that sales will lean towards the DS, but the PSP won't be far behind.

What I choose

DS...why?

1) It's coming out earliar
2) Christmas Price cuts
3) Popular titles lined up
4) Final Fantasy 3, need I say more?
5) Picto chat
6) It plays GBA games
7) It has graphics better than N64
8) It uses cool looking cards
9) Creators of Warp-Pipe have something in store for this
10)Cheap Price
11)Metroid Prime Hunters demo bundle
12)Thumb strap that acts like a joystick
13) It's made my Nintendo

What attracts me to the PSP

1) Sony has been drowning in RPG's
2) UMD, not very important but a nice plus
3) MP3, I don't listen to music so I don't even know why I put that in there. Gaming tunes perhaps.
4)Some good titles at their disposal eg. Jak, Rachet and Klank, and a few select others.


My money is with the DS but over time when I can find a PSP for REALLY cheap prices I'm going to get it. Preferably the price that a GBA SP costs right now.

I'll be realistic. Playstation is more popular, so in the long run, college students and twenty-somethings, the target audience of PSP, will be purchasing the aforementioned system. While I'm not going to get the PSP, I think that it will overall be more popular.
Unless the big N suprises us. I'd like that.

Originally Posted by Reamia

I'll be realistic. Playstation is more popular, so in the long run, college students and twenty-somethings, the target audience of PSP, will be purchasing the aforementioned system. While I'm not going to get the PSP, I think that it will overall be more popular.
Unless the big N suprises us. I'd like that.

I was just thinking of something once you said this. As we all know, most Americas seems to be materialistic and want the biggest, smallest, fastest, and/or best of everything (I'm not trying to be rude with that statement, I'm an American citizen myself, mostly everyone wants to live the "big dream"). Now look at this situation with the PSP. It is the smallest, fastest, and possibly has the best graphics of the portable 3D gaming systems (I'm including the Nokia, eventhough it's not doing well in sales). Now, who does Nintendo usually focus their game products upon? Most of the time younger children that range 8-18 (who practically get anything they want for Christmas). Who does Sony usually focus their games? Most of the time Mid-teens to Mid twenty year olds (I'm sure it goes further, but that's the medium). The real thing that determines the outcome of the best portable gaming system relies mostly on the teenagers. They can side either way. But like wwww9898 said, this Christmas season could possibly be what will tip the scale over for Nintendo.

-BGS

I am of the belief that the PSP will be more successful, commercially, despite the DS's superiority. And I am also too lazy to go into detail.

I also think that the PSP will come out on top as it is getting rave reviews in magazines like Game Informer and such, and hyping it up to be overall better than the DS in thier reviews. However despite all of these reviews I will be getting both the PSP and the DS, but I am going to wait for the sales to dramatically drop before I get a PSP, but I am getting the DS as soon as it comes out.

The PSP needs to get iPods out of pockets to be succsefull. A seemingly ridiculous statement, but consider what the PSP should be able to do: play games, music, and movies. Now here this, there is already a cheap small machien that play games on the go, the GameBoy, and the iPod plays your music(or whatever other media player you use, but for the sake of relativly high-investment products...), and most of America doesn't expect to pull movies out of their pockets yet.

What Sony really needs to do, is show that their device thatin all likely hood will be more expensive than a GameBoy or DS plays games better. Then needs to show people that it is as good as or better than something like an iPod at playing music. Finally they need to establish pocket movie wtching as a way of the future. In the mean time all of it's functions are competeing against established, or growing(portable movies) markets. It has to be able to really compete in price and functionality against a lot more than something like the GameBoy or even the DS.

I would even say that Sony will find less early adopters of the PSP than most people expect. THe PS2 sold like crazy ebcause it had backward compatiblility and compatibility with the premire new media format. PSP is really starting from scratch, using one new format for media and one that the masses don't usually have.

Now the DS has to amke sure that enough people are willing to put away their GameBoy/Color games and go above and beyond. There is a massive loyal user group for the GameBoy, but the expections are to be able to play anything that they ever bought for a portable. Nintedo has to show that this is the gameing of the future really, and that the DS is the way things are heading, whileat the same time not alienating those who stick to their GameBoy Advances.

Tricky enough, but all that the device is expected to do is play games, not 2 other things which makes positioning the unit easier.

I thinkt hat the DS will sell more initially and keep strong, but there will be a turning point. The PSP will start out slower and once people see if it can compete in all three categories then it will pick up. Now all Sony would have to do to change my opinion is make the UMD a rewriteable format that sold on shelves, and everything would be different, assuming they have decent battery life on the thing.

I think the DS will be a success, it is the right price for gamers (i know they don't wanna pay millions for something), it has a rack of great games coming onto it within a few months and it offers wireless gaminf for upto 16 players which is a good thing for multiplayers everywhere. The PSP would fail (i think) because of the huge price tag and it is basically a ps2 in a handheld

Don't know if I'll be getting DS... Only if it is backwards compatible. In any case, I will wait some time for the time to drop, and needless to say I choose the DS. I never liked PS2 with all its manga-art games and the thousands of RPGs.

The PSP is probably not going to fail because of games. It has many great games planned. The biggest problem is the launch time. I doubt the PSP will be like $300. Its probably going to fail because of the release timing. I think the price range for the PSP and the DS is going to be very unimportant. Sony isn't stupid. They know no one will by a PSP if it costs twice as much as a DS.

Originally Posted by Maxi678

it is basically a ps2 in a handheld

And that's a bad thing?

I chose the DS as my favourite, but personally I think the PSP will 'win'. People are suckers for extra functions like MP3 and other things mentioned, not to mention some people are extremely fanatic about game series like Final Fantasy, one of the many game series which will most likely see its way to the PSP.

Most people are dissing Nintendo nowadays, face it. I've been in to Nintendo for a long time and I used to be a great little fanboy. But fact is that most people choose either Xbox or PS2, often dismissing the Gamecube as a product made for children. Did anyone else but me notice the 'Gamecube racism' (as I prefer to call it) from some developers? They release their games to every damn console except the Gamecube.

Still I believe Nintendo will find a way to raise their sales and provide us gamers with better games and hopefully - some day - lower prices. Prices are INSANE in Sweden, as I've said about 4-5 times on this forum.

Originally Posted by BigGoronSword

Now look at this situation with the PSP. It is the smallest, fastest, and possibly has the best graphics of the portable 3D gaming systems (I'm including the Nokia, eventhough it's not doing well in sales).

-BGS

Game Gear Vs Game Boy

Graphix? Not there!

Game Boy Vs. Neo Geo

Once again handheld graphix dont matter.

need I say more? The horible grapical system of th Game Boy made no difference when Tetris and Mario World games were released. I expect the same to happen here.

(I think another big issue will be battery life. Nintendo has been verry good with that so far, but Sony has never had to deal with that. Then again, Sony is an ELECTRONICS supplyer. Which means battery life has been a big part of many of Sony's products.)

Originally Posted by 8bit

Once again handheld graphix dont matter.

Do you really think it's all for the battery life? In the past the graphics were all the same. But now, the graphics can go out to outstanding messures (and so can the prices). If the DS is going to be anything like the GBA SP, then I think it's battery life has nothing to worry about. DS has the graphics of an N64 (plus a little more), and the PSP has the graphics of a PS1 (I think it's safe to say that the graphics will be a little better than the PSP). The only great things that's going for the DS is the price, and the fans.

-BGS