Read up a bit on Nintendo DS and Sony’s PSP. Now I feel like buying myself a
Nintendo DS for those hour long rides to work and home. The games I’ll be
playing would be games from the Final Fantasy series and Zelda series. Too bad
they don’t run first generation gameboy cartridges anymore. I still have them
lying around.
The Nintendo DS has significantly longer battery life than PSP. There are no
loading times on the DS while the PSP has. PSP has a very short
battery life. PSP has problems where the cartridge slot pops open during use when the unit get’s
twisted and ejects the game disc.
Both systems have wireless capabilities built into them for multiplayer
purposes. I don’t know about PSP but it seems that for DS, for some games, you
only need 1 cartridge and the rest of the players can join in the fun without
the need for a same cartridge.
I’ve also read that someone has successfully connected his DS to his wireless
router and played with a friend over the net, over a distance too long for DS’s
wireless range. Update: found the link to the guys, XLink. Click on XLink Kai
at the top navigation bar.
Watched a video demonstration of Nintendo DS too. The touch-screen
capability of the lower screen certainly does seem to give better interactive
gaming. The PSP only has a single wider screen.
I can’t say if I’m biased or not but based on my half-assed research, I ended
up liking DS more than PSP. Now… Just waiting for the right shop, right price,
right time, right games.
The games I intend to purchase for the DS are: