PSP gets firmware 3.70

It is security upgrade too.
3.60 SLIM got hacked already (it took whole 5 days).

Motions mapped to the PSP... That's a $150 even more half-assed dang expensive controller.

I'm not sure how Lair will do but I'm hearing too much ill will from the hard core who craved the game.

And the shitty handheld has great games like: Metal Gear Solid, Prince of Persia, Killzone, GTA, Final Fantasy Remakes, Wipeout Pure, Lumines, Jeanne D' Arc and many more that I can't recall right now.

Oh yeah Silent Hill Origins !!!

I want in on the fun

Not to mention Tekken Dark Ressurection, Crush, the two Siphon Filter games, etc.

DS - 49.48M - 68.2% Market Share
PSP - 23.05M - 31.8% Market Share

DS FF remakes are better. You own the new Gamegear, and its suffering a similar fate. Congratulations on your shitty handheld and its 3 hour battery life.

At least it plays movies. The only good reason to own a PSP is all the crazy homebrew, because all those games you just listed aren't good enough to buy it for, or exist in a superior form on a real console.

I bought a PSP for LocoRoco and it was totally worth the $200.

23 million...that's more than the XBOX and Gamecube sold last generation; so much for a failure.

Both were failures, and together they split the market 70-30, just like PSP and DS.

Way to call DS the defactor standard for handheld games.

"Way to call DS the defactor standard for handheld games."

De facto son, de facto. If you're going to whip out the big guns then use them correctly. Otherwise you are just perpetrating ignorance ad nauseum.

Besides, failure means you are forced out of the market Dreamcast style. Sloppy seconds in a market that was formerly a monopoly is not bad at all.

whats a good reason to own the DS again?

Do you like Castlevania? How about MarioKart? NSMB? Advance Wars Dual Strike? Worms 2? Trauma Center? Phoenix Wright? Puzzle Quest? Tactical RPGs (Luminous Arc)?

Theres more quality software on the DS than the PSP and PS3 combined.

Crono, PSP is hardly suffering a Game Gear fate. PSP, unlike Game Gear, has had some pretty strong third-party support.
Plus, it's already outsold what the Game Gear sold in its entire life (8.56 million).

And I think the "three hour battery life" is a bit of an understatement.

FF remakes? I watched my manager play one of them at work. Definitely a nice piece of 2D animation. I think they just suffer from the stigma of being ported too many times (a compilation on PSOne, a compilation on GBA, seperate games on WonderSwan, and now seperate games on PSP).

Plus, the two Megaman remakes are totally worth owning a PSP for.


Honestly, at this point in the game, I think it's worth owning both PSP and DS. They both have great libraries.

Dunno buddy, the list doesn't seem much better or worse than the one furnished by Night Elve. I suppose not being the winner is by definition being the loser. But so is Ferrari when compared against Honda in total sales. This is not to say that the DS is boring or cheap, but what is your criteria for failure? They both found a market and exist within it. It just so happens that Nintendo chose the larger segment.

Did the PSP take you into a dark alley and have its way with you? You seem bound and determined to make everyone accept that the PSP is a failure. They are selling and developers are making games for them. That is some measure of success even if everyone and their fifth cousin doesn't have a PSP.

PSP, to me, is a load of potential awesomeness thats actually full of crap. I owned one, on launch day. I thought it was pretty cool. Never watched any movies on it, never found a time when it would be better to watch a UMD than a DVD. The games weren't there, and the ones that were there had superior versions on the PS2. One day, after realizing that I hadn't picked up my PSP in months, I got on the internet and cracked it open, downloaded the NES and SNES emulators, and then proceeded to use it daily. That lasted for a month or two, and then I picked up a new game (demo, luckily) that wouldn't run because it needed the latest firmware update (this was the era of v1.50, pre custom firmware). I said "forget that, I'll keep my homebrew." Several weeks/months past, and the DS Lite came out. I realized that i'd rather trade in my PSP, my 2 games, and my UMDs for a DSlite that I'd use frequently rather than keep the PSP with no compelling software and a half working SNES emulator.

And I haven't been tempted to buy one ever since. I'd pick one up again in a heartbeat if Sony opened the platform.

Crono --

In regards to the games that you listed, the PSP also has Worms Open Warfare 2 (with better graphics). The PSP also has Puzzle Quest (with better graphics). The PSP also has tactical RPGs -- including Jeanne d'Arc, which has a GameRankings score of 86% compared to Luminous Arc's 73%.

I'm not sure if any amount of logic and facts can make Crono realize his erroneous ways. He thought MP3 would have online multiplayer for God's sake.

And it should, too. As a matter of fact, at least one review dinged it for lack of multi-player.

Jeanne D'arc, Crush and Killzone Liberation (it's much different than Killzone) are all as good or better than anything I've played on the DS. (Except Elite Beat Agents, WHAT AN INCREDIBLE GAME!) On top of that they're all exclusive to PSP, so please shut up and don't be a jerk.