@Dale P "You really are ignoring game quality if you think the PSP is better than the DS."
No. You're ignoring game quality if you think PSP isn't better. Since launch, game ratings aggregation sites rated PSP's library as better, and it never stopped.
@Extinction Shovelware indeed. Meet Metroid Prime: Hunters. A game where they don't give you a lock-on. For some reason, the idea of good controls, average graphics, strong length (for an FPS) and great local multiplayer seems to strike me as a good game. Maybe I could do a similar breakdown for hundreds of games on the DS? Maybe I could point to Children and Heroes of Mana, FFCC:EoT and FFTA2:GotR? There's a reason why Squeenix has stuck with the DS more firmly, and it's because there's a great base of people who love RPGs and find that they don't need the graphics.
At some point, strong controls and a great library with shovelware inserted preside over your mini, Sony-fanboy favoring mini-library which, as a result of less than half the fanbase, features no shovelware as no developers could bother to develop any for such a small target. I know there are good games for the PSP, and that the PSP's good game to bad game ratio might be better, the good game total is lower, which, to the consumer, is what counts. Sorry.
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"'Course, the PSP never has been able to hang with the DS family"
*ignoring japanese sales
*and game quality
@Extinction You really are ignoring game quality if you think the PSP is better than the DS.
The sheer volume of shovelware may convince you otherwise, but the DS platform is home to the most great games of either system. :)
@Dale P "You really are ignoring game quality if you think the PSP is better than the DS."
No. You're ignoring game quality if you think PSP isn't better. Since launch, game ratings aggregation sites rated PSP's library as better, and it never stopped.
And my collection agrees
Couldn't find a graph for japan but these are the worldwide figures:
DS 128.89 Million
PSP 60 Million
That is a fairly wide margin from anybody's standpoint. It can't be hardware? So what is it?
@Extinction
You seem to be ignoring the fact that the DS has this thing called shovelware. It's a problem that hasn't graced it's presence on your precious PSP.
@Extinction
Shovelware indeed. Meet Metroid Prime: Hunters. A game where they don't give you a lock-on. For some reason, the idea of good controls, average graphics, strong length (for an FPS) and great local multiplayer seems to strike me as a good game. Maybe I could do a similar breakdown for hundreds of games on the DS? Maybe I could point to Children and Heroes of Mana, FFCC:EoT and FFTA2:GotR? There's a reason why Squeenix has stuck with the DS more firmly, and it's because there's a great base of people who love RPGs and find that they don't need the graphics.
At some point, strong controls and a great library with shovelware inserted preside over your mini, Sony-fanboy favoring mini-library which, as a result of less than half the fanbase, features no shovelware as no developers could bother to develop any for such a small target. I know there are good games for the PSP, and that the PSP's good game to bad game ratio might be better, the good game total is lower, which, to the consumer, is what counts. Sorry.
@Extinction As someone who owns both systems, I'm gonna have to disagree. Of course PSP has a higher average percentage - it has far less games! :)