Sony PSP VS Nintendo DS

[Nataku]

Every games company currently makes a loss on their home console. Microsoft were losing money on the Xbox when it first came out (Think how much theyre losing now!), PS2 also makes huge losses, and Gamecube makes losses, pretty big now because of the price it stands at at the moment

I'm not sure on the current position of the market in terms of profit margins and the like but this is an interesting read on how the current market is in relation to consoles and how some of the conceptions people might be slightly off.
http://www.buzzcut.com/article.php?story...3122342247


On the subject of this whole thing, it's all opinion on which handheld is better.

Sony's PSP seems to be the must own thing of 2005. It looks sleek and stylish but it's rather soulless. It is a conservative handheld which will sell well without doing anything amazing.

The DS doesn't look as fancy in both looks or graphical power however it makes up for it with charisma.

The movie and music playing abilities of the PSP are gimmicks. I'm not going to buy an UMD over a DVD be it full priced or even a half priced UMD. Even if it was bundled I'd probably not make use of it as I like to truly enjoy my movie experience. As for MP3s I can buy a good quality MP3 player for a fraction of the price with a greater capacity. So it comes back towards gaming.

Nintendo have made a console that really is trying to move gaming forward. If I give someone, who's not necessarily a gamer, Ridge Racer and a PSP they comment on how nice it looks before going back to whatever they were doing. I give the same person a DS with Wario Ware and they're hooked blowing a car out of harms way, frantically unrolling a roll of toilet paper before the timer ends or slicing a pizza in half.

I'm not sure what it is but given the chance I find that people are more likely to pick up the DS and Wario Ware than the PSP and Spiderman or Ridge Racer.

The PSP will undoubtably sell well and probably overtake the NCL handhelds as the most popular but I don't think it does so on merit. My main hope is Sony go on to evolve the machine to try and cater for different types of experiences rather than giving me PS2 games that I can already play.

Well that's my two pence worth.