No, we don't mean World War II, but considering every third game made these days revolves around that great war, we can forgive you if you made that assumption. No, we're talking about the never-ending conflict between the DS and the PSP, and we're wondering: where does it come from? Sure, we see a lot of fanboys arguing back and forth about the home consoles. We've heard thousands of iterations on the 360-vs-PS3-vs-Wii theme, but the whole PSP vs. DS issue is somewhat different. It seems to be a created beast.Oh, don't get us wrong. We're not above ribbing the other guys occasionally, just as they'll sometimes poke fun at us. That's just part of owning any piece of video game hardware, it seems. But in reality, the "war" isn't very vicious ... though to look at advertising and the media, one would think that DS fans are at war with PSP fans, and DS fans have always been at war with PSP fans.
Maybe we just have stars in our eyes. This recent VG Cats strip certainly makes us giggle; that poor, weepy PSP just looks so forlorn. But is it an accurate depiction? You tell us.
1. As one of those lucky (read spoilt) gamers who tends to have too much money on their hands, i picked up both a PSP and a DS.
Now technically PSP is way ahead, but when has fancy graphics a good game made?
The DS is what comes with me when i go away. Its such a popular item in my house i had to pick up a second one so i could game without my brothers hogging the thing.
Games are always what sells a console. Sony need to remember that, and have peripheral media features as what they should be, peripheral.
PSP and PS3 suffer the same ideology.
Well back to FF III for me... :P
Posted at 10:06AM on Jun 14th 2007 by Nerath