| the playstation portable is aesthetically better. it is elegant while the DS is bulky. currently the games out for the DS are subpar when compared to the PSP (though the PSP games haven't been superb thus far either).
The DS seems to be more gimmick. I have yet to see that touch screen thing actually do something useful.
The PSP has dumb abilities as well such as the video player? why would you want to have a video player on a 2 inch screen but i guess its inclusion is never a bad thing.
a preferable and more useful tool would probably be a camera or even a cell phone (though i take it n gage wasn't a popular idea)
the ability to play music but the proprietary format.... gives an "eh" but this is one of the most appealing apsectis of the PSP.
other crtiicisms of the PSP include the sticky button, dead pixels and poping of UMDs, but i hope optimistically that these would be resolved quickly.
the low battery life isn't that "low"
also, the PSP is better in specs.
PSP>DS any day, nintendo, i predict sadly will die with this final blow. before they relied on the handheld and survived (unlike sega which died a miserable death) bu tnow the handheld market is being handed over to Sony...
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