I need help choosing a hand-held video game system

[Deset Gled]

I'd say say go for the DS. I feel the PSP's library is quite unimpressive, while the DS has a nice large variety of games.

As an owner of both systems, I fully endorse this statement. The PSP is by far a more powerful system (in terms of graphics, media capabilities, and controller design), but I use my DS much more. I have a nice size stack or DS games that I love, but only a handful of PSP games that I enjoy. Also, the DS games are generally cheaper on the high end, and the DS also has more "value" games that you can get really cheap.

To be fair, one major reason for this is that the DS has re-energized the 2d platformer, which is one of my favorite style of game (3d platformers suck, and they're plentiful on the PSP).

 

[dvvega]

I own both a DSi and the PSP 3000. Both systems have their goods and bads and sometimes I think that you need to own both in the long term to get a good coverage of what is out there.

There is a D&D Tactics game on the PSP which is alright ... and the PSP-ified Eye of Judgement is pretty good as a card style game.

The DS has lots of RPGs as well.

The way I worked out what to buy was to watch reviews and then wait for a while. Most DS games drop in price fairly regularly while PSP games take a long time to drop.

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