False, it's a locked out system with poor battery life and woeful games at the moment.
It is a woeful machine.
The DS is a phenomenal machine, now, I had the option of choosing both as I had put aside 500 for a portable, I played with the PSP, some soccer game which pretty much bored me, the PSP looked kinda slick but that was about it.
Then I went and messed with a DS.
Mario Kart DS.
It blew me away. Absolutely blew me away. I also ordered Electroplankton from Liksang and it is just amazing.
The PSP is an unevolved attempt at a portable playstation. it is old world design with a standard method of input.
The DS has the touch screen and the microphone, and the wifi stuff [Admittedly the PSP has it but doesn't have anywhere near the amazing utilisation of it that the DS has]. The Dual Screens work so well on many games, and it is just flat out the best handheld of this generation.
Sure, the PSP's shiny and all but there are NO killer games. None whatsoever. The DS has Metroid Hunters coming out and it has MK DS and a whole slew of other upcoming awesome games (Such as the new mario) to totally blow audiences away.
Nintendo's evolving constantly to redefine how we interact with games to have fun, the DS is an example of this. I'll admit, at first I was a huge sceptic, but after playing it and buying it, I'm totally amazed.
Within 20 seconds of getting home i'd configured it with my home's wireless, and after about 5 minutes I'd called up some mates, got their friend codes and given them mine and was playing Mario Kart DS wirelessly across the internet against them.
At the moment, the PSP's only good for portable video, and then, why bother, I've got a video iPod, I don't need a PSP.
DS for lyef.
