Friends! Romans! Pizzamen! LEAD ME YOUR PORTABLES! Who will win Holiday 07?

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DS Vs. PSP. Discuss, who will win the portable wars of Holiday 07'?

Lay down some hardcore titles from both being released or have been released this year and THIS YEAR ONLY.

In my honest opinion, the PSP was a sleeping giant that finally woke up and it's taking names. If any of you got to play the FF Tactics remake by now, you'd be poopin' in yer pants like Rod Stewart! "I POOPED MUH PANTS!"

DS, does lay out some fine titles, but everyone around me keeps hyping up the PSP. So I'm totally blind on what the DS has been up to. So please inform me!
 
The DS...for the holiday? Hmm...I don't really know much. The PSP has some great titles coming out though. Although the DS is killing the PSP, I believe the PSP for the month of December will hold strong with the DS.
 
Personally I don't know what's coming out on either system, although I am hoping to get Phantom Hourglass (DS) and Jeanne d'Arc (PSP) soon.

I think, though, that the DS will probably do better this holiday than the PSP. It's still cheaper and has a wider variety of games.
 
I think PSP sales will be higher than usual because of the new model, but the DS will still probably beat it out. It's consistently been the best selling console for months, regardless of which games are coming out. It's like the Wii. It relys a lot on the casual gamer for sales, so, regardless of what games are coming this holiday, I think the DS will outsell the PSP.
 
The DS for sure. Better(and bigger?) library now, and there's tons of amazing games still coming. PSP has some good games coming, but fewer.
 
i like the psp, i have one. but the question whether which will win the war is a hilarious one. the psp is basically an abandoned platform by sony, they just release crappy new games and they made a slightly different model just so people wouldnt forget about the console.
 
DS. Oh wait, before you all accuse of me thinking that Nintendo = God, here's why. In my opinion of course.

1. Better games.
2. Less problems.
3. Unique gameplay.

~Jack
 
Jack said:
DS. Oh wait, before you all accuse of me thinking that Nintendo = God, here's why. In my opinion of course.

1. Better games.
2. Less problems.
3. Unique gameplay.

~Jack
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The sad thing is that tons of PSP owners agree with you.
 
But before people start whining about PSP sales, I gotta say one thing. 20 million units sold isn't bad. Compared to the 50 million the DS has...it's bad. As a stand alone, the PSP might be a moderate success(sales wise, not so much games), but since it's a competition, it's not good.
 
fhqwhgads said:
But before people start whining about PSP sales, I gotta say one thing. 20 million units sold isn't bad. Compared to the 50 million the DS has...it's bad...
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Just surviving the generation, in the handheld market against Nintendo is a huge success. Considering no non-Nintendo handheld, since the Game Boy has even had a successor, Sony should be pretty proud of what they've done with the PSP.
 
'Surviving the generation'? Off what? Five good games and a bunch of ROMs? Half the great PSP stuff is illegal.
 
Homicidal Cherry53 said:
Off 20 million plus PSP's sold. The PSP willget through the generation, selling enough units to get Sony to make another handheld, and that is a big success.
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Sony probably knows they shouldn't do handhelds anymore. Just a waste, leave it to companies who know what they're doing.
 
The DS simply because there are more of them already out there. But after playing God of War demo on the PSP it should sell more and do well.
 
fhqwhgads said:
Sony probably knows they shouldn't do handhelds anymore. Just a waste, leave it to companies who know what they're doing.
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:lol

You do realize that until Sony entered the market Nintendo owned something ridiculous like 95% of the handheld market (including blackberries, palmpilots, etc.)? Sony, a company that had never tried to make a handheld system before, on their first attempt takes 1/3 of Nintendo's pie, and you call that a failure? If their first entry to the handheld market is capable of accomplishing that, then just think of what another handheld made by Sony could accomplish, particularly now that they have an established fan base.
 
stealth toilet said:
:lol

You do realize that until Sony entered the market Nintendo owned something ridiculous like 95% of the handheld market (including blackberries, palmpilots, etc.)? Sony, a company that had never tried to make a handheld system before, on their first attempt takes 1/3 of Nintendo's pie, and you call that a failure? If their first entry to the handheld market is capable of accomplishing that, then just think of what another handheld made by Sony could accomplish, particularly now that they have an established fan base.
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Nope, not really. They should focus more on consoles(which they've proven capable of). Let's face it, they don't know the point of a handheld, and while it might have sold since it has music and movies, along with ROMs, it really didn't sell because of the masterful library of PSP games. There's like five ones everybody likes. They should go back, look at all Nintendo's handhelds, figure out what made them sell, and do it.
 
Especially since there are iPods, portable DVD players, and the Nintendo DS for gaming. PSP was pretty much a crappy version of all three of them, IMO.
 
fhqwhgads said:
Nope, not really. They should focus more on consoles(which they've proven capable of). Let's face it, they don't know the point of a handheld, and while it might have sold since it has music and movies, along with ROMs, it really didn't sell because of the masterful library of PSP games. There's like five ones everybody likes. They should go back, look at all Nintendo's handhelds, figure out what made them sell, and do it.
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So you want them to give up on the handheld markets, while also looking at what Nintendo's done with handhelds, and go make a handheld like that?

The situation the PSP is in is similar to the one the original Xbox was in. The Xbox had maybe 10 games (well, 10 exclusives) that managed to sell over a million copies in its life span, and mos tof them were shooters. Yet, even though they didn't have the best games, they still gained a reasonable share of the market, in what was their first attempt at a console. Had they just forgotten it and given up there, we wouldn't have had the 360, which has the largest library of any of the nex-gen consoles, has sold 10 million units (almost half of what the Xbox sold in its entire life span), and is now a serious contender that could actually win this generation. The PSP could very well do the same thing the 360 did: take away some of the flaws of its predecessor, and make a console with a chance at being truly successful.

The PSP was Sony's first try at a handheld console, and they made mistakes with it. Should they abadon the handheld market completely, just because the PSP had a few flaws, and didn't manage to beat out the DS, which was made by a company who had been making handhelds for 15 years?
 
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