| The DS or PSP [message #99459] |
Sun, 04 July 2004 14:32   |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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Good point, I bet the Nintendo system will suck more juice out of its batteries because of the two screens - unless they come out with something really snazzy, LCD screens inhale a lot of power, last time I checked.
I just hope Nintendo doesn't come out with some half-assed part like the Gamecube's memory card. To save a career on some baseball cards, you had to swap out like 5 MEMORY CARDS to store all of the information, because the memory cards have 4 megabits of storage space. 4 megabits is nothing. Other than that, I thought the Gamecube was awesome, particularly the controller.
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| The DS or PSP [message #99477] |
Sun, 04 July 2004 15:39 |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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Well, I must be mistaken. I bet the Nintendo system will be better except for thwe accessories, which will be fairly necessary and yet very costly.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)
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| The DS or PSP [message #99573] |
Mon, 05 July 2004 01:46 |
DanSolo
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Ive been following this debate for some time on other forums and i have no doubt that the DS will succeed over the PSP.
Technically the PSP is the superior console, but the battery will only last 2-4 hours when gaming and about 2 hours when playing a movie, whereas the DS offers a full 10 hours of gaming.
The DS has built in wireless gaming/chat on a local scale aswell as the ability to connect to a WI-Fi hot spot to play against people from other continents. The bottom screen is touchscreen and both are backlit.
The DS will sure a modified SD-card (or some type of flash mem) which is good, because it cuts down on the amount of moving parts, and thus saves power. Plus think of it your standing on the train, some asshole bumps into you, you drop your DS, it hits the floor and dents/scratches the case, you drop the PSP and the screen can get scratched/smashed, the motor in the cdrom drive. Besides any new applicance that uses sony memory sticks for storage also is gonna suck.
So, if you hadnt guessed my money is on the DS, it will be innovative, clever and groundbreaking. The PSP on the otherhand will look great, but it will be an uninspired "port" whore, its gonna cost the same as a small african country and shit guys how many more GTA games can u take or another EA Sports annual ripoff title?
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| The DS or PSP [message #99810] |
Tue, 06 July 2004 00:52 |
DanSolo
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You are a wise man DanSolo, a wise man you be.
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| The DS or PSP [message #99816] |
Tue, 06 July 2004 01:40 |
Nemesis
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PSP should be around $370, don't know about DS.
Can't choose now, wait to see wich one has wich games...
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| The DS or PSP [message #100113] |
Wed, 07 July 2004 08:13 |
DanSolo
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yeah the nomad owned, unfortunately they never released it in the UK.
it not all bad as when i was over in the states about 8 years ago i picked up the portable verison of the turbo graphix 16, the name of it escapes me at the moment, but it was the mac daddy. i had about 20 games for it until some fucktard burgular stole it from my house.....bastard.
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| The DS or PSP [message #100260] |
Wed, 07 July 2004 15:38 |
tooncy
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The Nomad kicked ass if you had the wall adapter for it. My cousin had one and he would let me use it whenever he was using the Genesis.
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Yeah, I have one but my AC port is loose. I need to buy one of those rechargeable battery packs with the AC port on them.
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| The DS or PSP [message #100854] |
Sat, 10 July 2004 23:36 |
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Personally, I've been waiting for a portable 3D console from Nintendo for years, it's good to know that they're finally going to manufacture one.
For battery life and durability, I suppose the DS will be better,but the whole dual screen makes it looks strange and somehow big.
The PSP will be using the new universal cartridge standard, one gigabyte of data per game, I haven't heard much about the DS yet.
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| The DS or PSP [message #101047] |
Mon, 12 July 2004 09:10 |
DanSolo
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The DS will be using modified SD cards with capacities over 1000mbit. Besides who really needs to have a gigabyte of data for a handheld. The umd is basically a DVD which needs to be rotated=raped batteries.
Also the nice big flat screen of the PSP looks like its gonna catch reflections and glare nicely.
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| The DS or PSP [message #101132] |
Mon, 12 July 2004 15:47 |
z310
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Hey nemisis, hey jolly 
I think it DS would be no more than two hundred (dont know that as a fact though lol)
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| The DS or PSP [message #101913] |
Fri, 16 July 2004 07:00 |
mahkra
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It's the same thing for the PSP, they be using the new universal standard for data chips/cards,
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I'm not sure what makes it a "universal standard..." It's just a disc format invented by Sony that can hold 1.8GB of data. They named it the "universal media disc" though, which I think is a pretty bullshit name. I mean, you can put any kind of media on any kind of recording device. So what the hell? But anyway....
Sony's UMDs can hold 1.8 GB, and the Nintendo DS cartridges supposedly hold 1000 Mbit. The DS has a second cartridge slot for GBA games, though, so in theory a game (or movie or whatever) could have its engine & save slots on the GBA cartridge and use multiple DS cartridges for data. Then you could switch out the DS cartridges in the middle of the game/movie/whatever. In this way, the DS could have games of practically any size.
(I haven't actually heard anything about people planning to do this, but I think it would be pretty cool to do. I also think it would be cool to make some fancy new hardware that would fit in the GBA slot and be used by high-end DS games, kinda like the N64 had.)
*IF* Nintendo & game developers take full advantage of the GBA slot, I think the DS has the potential to be a MUCH more powerful & versatile handheld than the PSP. And more power (plus the larger screen) is pretty much the only thing that the PSP has going for it. (Even without any cool stuff like I mentioned above, though, I personally think the DS will be a lot nicer than the PSP.)
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