Nintendo DS vs. Playstation Portable

Which was ultimately was the better system now that're both legacy devices?

Which had had the better games?

DS

hacked psp

all the games

The DS had better original games and was cheaper, but the PSP was better in every other aspect

DS had better games, PSP had better hardware and is still worth using

Buying a PSP GO next week to have a portable emulation device. I'm so excited.

I disagree, the PSP had more original games and better games 2bh

Almost all the DS library was shovelware

PSP > DS
3DS > Vita

The Vita was a fucking mistake.

PSP had a lot of my favorite games

Jeanne D'Arc
Syphon Filter Dark Mirror
Mega Man Powered Up
Maverick Hunter X
Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles
Ultimate Ghouls 'n' Goblins
Both Prinny games
Loco Roco games
Patapon games
Killzone Liberation
Lumines
All the GTA games
Dissidia
Can't forget Minster Hunter
I hated Peace Walker

no, the games it has were a mistake.
it has good hardware, and good features too, it was shitted on by all the weebshit it has and failed ports.

Maverick hunter X felt so off to me. It was MMX without the absolutely spot on gameplay and soundtrack. It had more of what made MMX4 bad than what made MMX good. I still think the people that liked it were just anime fans that good lured in by the cutscenes as opposed to actual MegaMan fans.

PSP. The DS did have a few games I really enjoyed, though.

lol. 3ds is better than the psp by a tiny bit, but not even close to the Vita.

>better system
Psp
>better games
DS
As much as I love the DS, the hardware was garbage.

Yeah man, the 3ds doesn't even have a 99% ratio of videogames with moeblob girls in the cover, can you believe that? o_O

I enjoyed it, but it has admittedly been so long since I played MMX that I can't really compare the two. MMX is a hard game to meaningfully improve upon.

Megaman Powered Up is a pretty big improvement over the original Megaman, though, and a great game in general. I'm more fond of it ovetall than I am Maverick Hunter.

psp

all the ds had was shovelware and pokemon

>Mfw I just loaded a shit ton of porn into my PSP


I'll get around to hacking it and playing some of the games someday. I need to start banking as much money as possible, so I'm done buying new games for awhile.

>DS
>Better games

Did you people even play both consoles?

DS: Dragon Quest, Ace Attorney, The World Ends With You, 999, Radiant Historia, Pokemon Black, Vanias, Ghost Trick, Hotel Dusk, Professor Layton, Mario Kart, Legend Of Zelda, Animal Crossing, Rhythm Heaven,

PSP: Wipeout, Final Fantasy Tactics, Ogre, Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, Final Fantasy Crisis Core Final Fantasy Dissida, Daxter, Monster Hunter, Danganronpa,Legend Of Heros, YS series, GTA, Jeanne Darc, Digimon, Ape Escape, Locoroco, Gran turismo, Valkyre 2,Final Fnatasy Type-0

Man they really fucked up with the vita though

final fantasy, megaman, chrono trigger, mario kart ds, phoenix wright, trauma center, metroid prime, harvest moon and the list goes on.

hacked PSP > DS with flashcart > DS > PSP > PSP GO

Both systems are must own though. The amount of games for both systems if you hack it is enough to last for a lifetime.

PSP was better but DS was more popular. Both had incredible libraries. Whenever you prefered the DS games or the PSP games was a matter of preference but I find the PSP lineup more appealing because the games were closer to what we had on home consoles and generally speaking more mature.

The PSP is severely underrated by the way.

At launch they were both massive disappointments.
10 years later I still think that. Massively overrated here.

Who cares? Both consoles were so good and cheap enough that handheld idort was the only true way. Just like this gen.

>tfw PSP cfw for the first time

last gen
>hardware
psp
>games
psp

Current gen
>hardware
ps vita
>games
3ds

Trust me i am a connoisseur about these things.

I'd agree with that. The PSP and Vita both tried to deliver on the age-old dream of having a console in your pocket while the DS and 3DS both followed down the path of the handheld being a distinctly different beast. I liked what Sony was going for more but the general consumer does not seem to agree with me.

DS. It had several dozens of decent games among all that trash it had as well. It was the PS2 of portables. Too many games, but too many good games.

The PSP by contrast had pretty good titles as well, but it had an early death, it focused too much on the japanese market and many of its games were either ports or mostly remakes. I like both portables but when I play the PSP I mostly use it as an emulator handheld, while I'll use the DS always to play DS games.

>tfw you missed out on the PSP hacking scene

PSP with CFW was godly at the time when smartphones weren't very popular. It also had quite some good games, not many, but it had some must play.

DS had a greater amount of good games but that was about it.

Still sad Vita never got CFW.

At least Vita has eCFW and VHBL. And Rejuvenate.

Shit, PSP is still better than the fucking 3ds. Nintendo needs to stop making their underpowered shit consoles.

PSP with CFW is still a good choice for older systems because while you might be losing out on emulator performance and accuracy versus what a Z5 or S7 or whatever can do with Retroarch, you gain actual physical controls.

DS: Massive, high quality library with some timeless classic titles still being remade/ported to this day

PSP: A small library with only a few great games.

As for piracy, this just depends on taste. The emulators for PSP are ass compared to the ones on DS flashcarts. However, the PSP can run PS1 games perfectly. It depends what your priorities are.

>The emulators for PSP are ass compared to the ones on DS flashcarts.
You've got to be fucking kidding me.

This and only this

DS > PSP > Vita > 3DS

All are good, but this gen of portables isn't AS good. DS and PSP were some kind of magic.

Always had trouble with them personally, e.g. saves corrupting, glitches, etc.

>PSP: A small library with only a few great games.

what an absolute shit taste you must have

>As for piracy, this just depends on taste. The emulators for PSP are ass compared to the ones on DS

Oh, you're just retarded. Ok then.

How does the PSP handle not having as many buttons as an original PS1 controller or dualshock?

DS >>>>>>>>> PSP

The PSP is even more redundant now that there's an emulator

How many genuinely must-play PSP games are there? Crisis Core and Ys Seven are all that come to mind.

You can use custom button mappings. Usually I set L2 and R2 to the left and right directions on the nub. There's no dual analog support.

just don't expect too much
GBA and SNES emulation is good, but require some frameskipping and specific emulators (some versions work well with some games)

PS1 emulation is great tho
also Genesis, NES, GBC, Game Gear, Master System, Neo Geo Pocket, etc

>fat ds revealed
>NINTENDO IS DOOMED
>PLAYSTATION WON THE PORTABLE WARS
Those Sup Forums threads and forum posts on neogaf were great. At the end of the day, Nintendo sold more units. But PSP did great compared to Sega's Game Gear. VITA is a failure.

Crisis Core isn't that great.

The Vita was the right console at the entirely wrong time. I wonder if SCE is going to leave the handheld market or announce something new to try and bring back PSP numbers.

Let's see. On DS I had:

-Ace Attorney series
-Layton series
-Dragon Quest games a ton
-Megaman ZX
-Hotel Dusk, Last Window
-Bowser's Inside Story
-My favorite Mario Kart
-Radiant Historia
-The best port of Chrono Trigger
-Many of the pokemons, my favorite gen which was 4th
-Monster Tale
-Them Castlevanias, all good
-EBA/Ouendan 1/2
-Kirby Superstar Ultra

On PSP I had:

-Dracula X Chronicles
-The better version of BoF
-FFIV
-The Ys series
-Ultimate Ghosts & Goblins

And that's about it

I meant BoF3

Nigger, i am not going to make a list of great games for you to play.

PSP has at least 50 must play titles and at least 150 good games that are worth your time, you just need to look for them.

PSP excels in jrpgs,srpgs, arpgs, and action games.

If you don't like these types of games then of course you're gonna think psp is shit.

It all comes down to tastes. If you love japanese games then DS is not that great, at all.

I remember trying that fucking chickenwhatever it was called
Having access to CFW without the need of a pandora battery was awesome

And after that everyone was getting crazy with the updates and trying to patch games like Kingdom Hearts BBS

Honestly I'd like to see that list of 50 must play titles. I have trouble coming up with 10.

>lol. 3ds is better than the psp by a tiny bit, but not even close to the Vita.
this is actually true, 3ds is not even close to the vita, and as a 3ds owner, im glad, vita is the N-gage of this times.

The portable was more revolutionary in terms of graphics, and hardware (as well as higher modding capabilities) but Nintendo made the better system, and made fun games that actually caught the general attention, instead of Sony who went for a specific crowd, age groups notwithstanding

I almost exclusively play Jap titles. The PSP hasn't got shit on the DS library-wise. Maybe you're the one who needs to do a bit more research.

Vita would be great if you could pirate on it already, especially that free internet model.

It's more that it failed at its intended purpose of getting the Western audience playing portables via Mature Games like CoD, which was an aim and failure of the PSP as well (remember how quickly the PSP GTA game got flipped to PS2?). The main difference is Sony dropped first-party support on Vita as fast as Sega dropped the Dreamcast, but third-party support is still pretty solid, especially with Japanese games.

both have stable emulators so who cares. 3ds vs vita is the only real debate

Crisis Core isn't that great.

>If you love japanese games then DS is not that great, at all.
Wait, are you high?

>people shitting on the Vita
>not realizing it has just been a late bloomer and is now getting a shitload of new titles whilst the 3DS is almost dead

Both systems had great libraries. The problem with the DS was a lot of games fell under the radar if it wasn't a nintendo exclusive, or if nintendo wasn't advertising 3rd party games for it.

The community for the PSP seemed to be more active, and talkative about all the different types of games that it had, and it just had games on there that generally appealed to me more than the DS did.

It all really comes down to what games appealed to you in the end.

PSP would have won if it weren't for:

-Lack of exclusive titles
-Pouring too much sugar on the papanese
-That retarded ministick
-The absurd battery life
-The fact it used a shitty minidisc system

The rest was alright. They did a very good job with the rest of the hardware. The fact you could have a portable PS1 legit when it was really hard to emulate PS1 on anything portable in the first place (what with the GP2X and the like) was amazing. Hell it still is, I use my PSP for PS1 games all the time. Fuck using phones for that.

>Really want to play more PSP games and have comfy access to emulators.
>Have tried four PSPs and about eleven batteries.
>The maximum time I could get out of any of these combinations was 50 minutes.
>Have the UMD drive turned off and processor power at normal speed.

How the fuck do I get out of this PSP hell?

No speedup button though on the PSP. Shit sucks.

I read this as "tfw PSP claw" for the first time and thought your image was a clever mash up of smug and the monster hunter claw grip.

Imagine my bitter disappointment.

>many of its games were either ports or mostly remakes

A lot of people seem to forget this when it get's compared to the vita. A lot of games for the PSP were ports or remakes from the PS1. With that said, the PSP did have a lot of very good exclusives.

move house, there's a wizard drawing power out of your appliances to use to his own wicked ends.

How many of them aren't targeted at 20-somethings neckbeards who have waifu pillows? How many of them are even translated? How many of them couldn't be described as "weeb" if we let out the country of origin?

PSP: Wipeout, Final Fantasy Tactics, Ogre, Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, Crisis Core, Final Fantasy Dissida, Daxter, Monster Hunter, Danganronpa, Legend Of Heros, YS series, GTA, Jeanne Darc, Digimon, Ape Escape, Locoroco, Gran Turismo,Final Fnatasy Type-0, Dj Max Portable 1~2, Gurumin, Tales Of Phantasia, Wild Arms XF, Tekken, Half-Minute Hero, Summon Night, Ace Combat, Armoured core, PoPoLoCrois

Then you had great niche Japanese titles like Gitaroo man, Puzzle Guzzle, Work Time Fun, etc

The psp had a much better library, subjective my opinion.

Both the PSP and Vita become so much better if you know moon.

>sold my PSP 3 years ago
>now can't play ps1 games on the go because of some wierd input lag in FPSE when I plug in my DS3

>Because certain games don't appeal to me they don't count

Nice argument

If you know how to use a computer, PSP.
If you like racing games, PSP.
If you like shovelware, DS.

I do like remakes from time to time but if you consider having a handheld just as a console, not to bring it out of the house, you're looking for new and exclusive titles. Some people didn't want to play parappa the rapper on the go, because they could just play the PS1 version at any point. The DS had some ports or remakes here and there too, but most of its decent titles were mostly new. I would go as far as to say it was getting more decent titles than the home consoles in that gen.

I feel like the best combination to have is 3DS + PSP.
It gives you the most in terms of libraries and hacking capabilities.
The only library you miss out on is the Vita's.

I just got a 2000 and hacked it a few days ago. I now have the latest version of everything already there, and no need to update my shit every five days. I don't need the hacking scene

It is a nice argument when no one buys them.

What are you talking about, there's DS emulators too, and they existed for a longer time than PSP emu.
Why would I ever own a DS when I can 999 on the tablet in portrait mode which works great

Not him, but if we're doing that specifically, then the DS still wins by a landslide. There's a fuckton of random games like Flower, Sun and Rain, Contact, the Etrian Oddysey series and SMT titles which are not appealing to quite a few people. Hell, the Rune Factory series. Trauma Center. These are all pretty decent titles, but quite a few people may not like them.

If we took a list of all non-shovelware shit games, the DS would still have won regardless of preferences.

They were both amazing what's the fucking point of picking the """better"""" one

Why do you jackasses feel likes it's a necessity to bring up the current handhelds to compare to the old ones?
The DS was and still is king of handhelds, it wasn't as powerful as the PSP, sure, but let's face it, PSP 3D-graphics were fucking ugly and muddy.

The Vita in virtually everything but the variety of its library beats the 3DS, but it's such a niche console now most people shit on it without ever even as looking at one.

Maybe I'm strange but I love just experimenting with all the new hacks whenever they come out.

both were good in their own right but I think we can all agree that the psp-1000 was a heavy piece of shit

>Finally got Hiragana down in both reading and writing

Next comes Katakana before I start moving onto vocab building and grammar.

I love portable devices in general, so i don't mind Ports or remakes either, if they're done well though. The Jak and Daxter collection for the vita was horrid, but i digress.

There has always been something about dedicated portable video game devices that has always intrigued me. The idea that i can pick up and put down a game whenever i need to, and not be tied down to a Console or PC just to play a game has always been a major plus for me, especially in recent years.

I just find it funny when people try to point out ports as a negative, especially when comparing systems.

The claw is a high tier skill. It's also why the xbox stick layout is awful. Can't claw with the Dpad.

It's more lightweight than the original 3DS and Vita-1000.

PSP graphics were fantastic. Look at Burnout and Outrun.

I just hope Nintendo pulls their heads out of the sand, and make a portable with one large screen instead of two pieces of shit.

Good luck, user.

I'm with you man, I love handhelds. Most of the games I play nowadays are on handhelds so I also don't mind ports.

PSP graphics did look pretty damn good in most games.

Vita has more games than 3ds by a lot. More genres too.

DS is king of shovelware. You can't call psp muddy when DS is in the conversation where 90% was 2d since it was too weak for proper 3d.

Why would you ever claw with a full controller? Seriously? Get an Elite or similar controller with excess buttons on the back and be done with the autism MH on PSP created.

Not everyone needs portability. Some people appreciate portable ports, but if you rarely play vidya out of the house then you're just left questioning why you bought a console with little but ports.

What kind of life do you live where your gaming time is spent on handhelds. I actually feel bad for you.

I don't think ports are a negative, they're a positive if you want to play certain titles in a more convenient way.

But for instance, I have a 3DS right here. I could play OOT3D and MM3D on it at any point, yet I still choose to poorly emulate them. Why? Because I find it more comfortable and I don't really take the 3DS out of the house. I'm fairly sure I'm not a special snowflake here and some other people are looking for a handheld just as another platform to play games on.

The PS1 also had a lot of shovelware. Every console that sells well does. It doesn't mean its library is bad though.

Handheld games are GOAT though. AAA gaming has been shit for a while.