Nintendo or PSP

[Omega]

Originally Posted by h4x.m4g3

It's true you can check it out at nintendo's website, link in a minute.
edit: Here you go straight from the horse's mouth http://www.nintendo.com/e3_2004/ds/d...perMario64.jsp

GAME SET AND MATCH!

[Domon]

Im a sony fan all the way. ever since I got my PS1, I was hooked.

[Vivi Ornitier]

Since you since to be so interested in Mario games they are also coming out with a new side-scroller mario. Not much as been released yet though there is a trailer but I can't find it anymore...

[Fifthfiend]

If the PSP lacks the ability to play standard media, its usefulness to me as a media device becomes worthless.

In that event, I go with the DS, because it bugs the crap out of me when portables put the screen between your hands instead of above them.

[h4x.m4g3]

Originally Posted by fifthfiend

If the PSP lacks the ability to play standard media, its usefulness to me as a media device becomes worthless.

In that event, I go with the DS, because it bugs the crap out of me when portables put the screen between your hands instead of above them.

I agree what's the point of buying two copies of the same thing

Well wouldn't one screen still be between your hands anyway? Even if it is the secondary screen

[Fifthfiend]

Well wouldn't one screen still be between your hands anyway? Even if it is the secondary screen

If it's just maps and shit, I can make an exception. In fact, having maps or inventory lists between your hands almost makes sense, aesthetically speaking.

It just bugs the crap out of me when I have to look between my hands for the game action. When I play on a console, I have my controller somewhere below my line of vision and the TV in front of me. I see no reason why a handheld system should try to alter that relationship.

[Pidgeot]

I'm sticking with DS, and I think many people will. I have a hard time imagining many people shelling out between 300 and 375 Euros for a PSP, after all, not even the current consoles are that expensive. DS, however, is only between 149 and 199 Euros. And has the possibility to link up with your friend on the other side of the globe. And GBA compatability. And Miyamoto playing Wario Ware with a cotton swab.

[Priest4hire]

When I play on a console, I have my controller somewhere below my line of vision and the TV in front of me. I see no reason why a handheld system should try to alter that relationship.

The two are completely unrelated. For one thing you can't hold the controller so that the TV is between your hands. For another playing a game on a large TV that?s at least several feet away is unrelated to playing a handheld with a tiny screen in your hands. That you don't like handhelds with the screen between the controls is fine. But comparing handhelds to playing on a TV is rather weak.

The PSP's screen is too large to do it above the controls anyway, and I'd rather have the bigger screen than that screen above my hands. And you do realize - on the DS - that if you're controlling the game with a stylus and your interacting with the game that way you will have to use the lower screen.

Anyway, right now the PSP seems to have very weak battery times. And while there is an external battery who knows what it will cost. Most of the games seem to be ports, and I'm not 100% on how comfortable it will be.

On the other hand it kicks the DS's butt graphically. The new Metal Gear looks very slick indeed. The analog is nice, as is the large high resolution screen. The ability to play media is to me of no import. All I care about are the games, and it looks to have a few nice ones.

The DS has two screens and what have we seen from that so far? Maps. Paying for 2 screens and then having to backlight 2 screens so that we can have a map on its own screen seems like a waste. Then there's the touchscreen. Too small to play easily by hand we'll have to use a stylus. I've yet to be convinced the thing will be easy to hold while using the stylus, and there's been no word on how the screen will avoid being scratched. Touchscreens are prone to that after all. The N64 graphics don't excite and the system can only push 3D on one screen at a time. Like the PSP most games shown are ports.

But it will have the Nintendo games, and lots of good support. There may well be a few games that make good use of the dual screens and touchscreen. So there may be a few unique game experiences. Some of the games look pretty good. Certainly the Metroid game looks good. Battery life should be much better, and it should sell for less. All I care about are the games so things like instant messaging mean nothing to me.

I'm sticking with DS, and I think many people will. I have a hard time imagining many people shelling out between 300 and 375 Euros for a PSP, after all, not even the current consoles are that expensive. DS, however, is only between 149 and 199 Euros.

Last time I checked Sony never announced the price. So how do you know it will be between 300 and 375 Euros?

[KefkaTaran]

Yeah, the closest thing I've heard from the price arena is early, early estimates from 'experts'.

and Omega: Yes, as has been said earlier, the Mario 64 game is real and was one of the first games I saw shown for DS during E3 coverage. I'm actually honestly far more excited about the new 2D Mario game.

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

I'm not overly impressed myself by what I saw game-wise for either system, however I see GREAT potential for what the systems CAN create and I think that's what has given me a non-bias view of it. I really will buy them both, or just one or the other if one isn't good, or even none of them for a while if both of them come out with not so good games or something (such as GC and PS2 came out with only 1 or 2 good games for quite a while after launch to me).

Both seem to have ALOT of potential...sadly, for me, I'm really looking into PSP being able to play media. Meaning DivX or the like. Not worried about DVD, but I would love to use that ting on the go for video watching. Otherwise, the DS already has what sounds like word processing, image manipulation programs for fun and possibly even internet! I mean, more and more the DS is sounding like a pocket PC or Palm Pilot....and I think Nintendo would be really smart to create a cheap and highly versitile gaming machinethat could ALSO function as some of these things. It would not only encourage buyers because they can do far more than just games, but it could actually cut into Sony's OTHER markets, such as portable electronics and internet compatable Cell Phones.

See, perhaps there's more to this DS than we realize. All speculation, but that's ideas I was kinda getting from various specs and the E3 N-Conferrence.