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Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Play Station Portable

garougal · Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult

I've never owned one but I've used one. I like it well enough for a small system, and I liked the fact it can play movies. That was great when I was waiting in an airport.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

yeah, the movie and TV thing is really intersting. Apparantly it has a TiVo service on which you can watch anything on TV if you're in a WiFi area.

When I've bought systems in the past I play a lot for a few weeks, then get bored with it, so it just sits there and collects dust. I've never been into the shooting games or the role playing games, etc. But every time football or baseball season starts I get that urge to "manage" a game

Since this has so many other uses, I'm thinking it's the way to go.

Thanks for the input G-Gal.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Looks like you can surf the net on these things too!

I think my decision is made unless tomorrow someone tells me a horror story about them

allycat · Cat Scratch Diva

that sounds pretty cool

Ultimo · King of the Ring

I have a PSP JR, and yeah for what you after it probably is the best option for you, with all the extra's, video's, photo's web browsing etc. and sports titles do look better on PSP than anything else having said that from a pure gaming point of view my DS Lits is much better. But from what you have said your not a big gamer just like the sports stuff so go for PSP.

On a side note to put lots of other media files on your PSP your gonna need a bigger memory card for the system, but they are fairly cheap.

Ultimo · King of the Ring

Another thing that the PSP has become good at is Retro gaming, they have not made too many new games for the system worth shouting about just PS2 ports, but they have been relasing alot of Retro games and retro packages which are fun, like lemmings and worms, midway package, mega drive package and many more, some of those are fun to go back and play.

Ultimo · King of the Ring

oh and by the way anyone else who is looking to but a protable games system and is not into the Sports games, you should definately go for a Nintendo DS Lite, it is amazing for gaming, I defy anyone to play games like Animal Crossing, Wario Ware, and New Super Mario Bros and not get addicted to them.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

JR, if you can get $100 knocked off the $169 price of the PSP, I say go for it!! I don't own one myself, but have played on one and liked it. Since you're not a hard-core gamer like Ultimo and myself, this is probably more along the lines of what you'd use the most anyway. And with the $100 bucks you're saving off the price, you can pick up the bigger memory card for it and still have money left over.

I also haven't read anything about Sony changing the platform on this system like they did with the PS3, so for $69 I think it'd be money well spent. And like Ultimo said, there are some great games being released for the PSP in case you get tired of football and baseball.

Woo Hoo · The Chosen Woo

My husband was considering one but he likes a bunch of games and he decided against it. He couldn't see spending that money for that and having to spend $30 on a game like he does for the PS2.

Ultimo · King of the Ring

Have you ever played on a DS lite Ghostdancer?

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

No I haven't Ultimo.....and I don't know anyone that has one that I could borrow. What's the game play like on it? I've been thinking about buying another system so I can play when my girls have the PS2 tied up. I've been considering buying a hand held system. Do you like this better than the PSP?

Ultimo · King of the Ring

For gameplay the DS is far better, the games are just far more original and entertaining than PSP, graphics arn't as good but that just doesn't matter really, and as your a fan of Guitar Hero, you should love DS as it is really interactive with the touch screen and microphone built in and I do believe that they are planning on relasing guitar hero for the DS soon!

Also the DS is backwards compatiable with all the Gameboy advanced games, has a web browser available and a MP3 application available too. It will also be able to interact with the Wii soon too.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Hmmmm......I think I'll have to check this one out further!! To be compatiable with the Wii, is a newer version of DS going to be released or is an add-on coming out for the Wii? If a new version is coming, any idea of how long before it does?

Think I'll look around over the weekend, see if I can find one that's set up to play with in a store and give it a try!!

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Thanks for the info guys, you've been a HUGE help.

One last question. Do either of you know how a PSP game compares to it's PS2 or PS3 counterpart?

For example, will the baseball game be mostly the same graphically and stuff, or is it stripped down because the console doesn't have as much power?

I love the details of a normal video game. The stadiums are usually so detailed, the uniforms, etc. I'd had to learn that the PSP version is much more simplistic in it's style (I realize of course due to the smaller size I wouldn't be able to see the details as well).

Ultimo · King of the Ring

Jeremy Riggs wrote:

Thanks for the info guys, you've been a HUGE help.

One last question. Do either of you know how a PSP game compares to it's PS2 or PS3 counterpart?

For example, will the baseball game be mostly the same graphically and stuff, or is it stripped down because the console doesn't have as much power?

I love the details of a normal video game. The stadiums are usually so detailed, the uniforms, etc. I'd had to learn that the PSP version is much more simplistic in it's style (I realize of course due to the smaller size I wouldn't be able to see the details as well).

The graphics arn't quite PS2 quality but they arn't far off in my opinion, things like stadiums and crowds will be stripped down somewhat, but it doesn't normailly matter too much, If I was you I would search You Tube for some PSP videos for a better Idea.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Great Idea!

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

Well JR, from what I've read about the PS3, you can't compare the PSP to the PS3....that's apples and oranges, but the games I've played on it looked great! There are some slight differences, but not enough to put me off from considering one. Out of the hand-helds, the PSP is noted for its graphics. Hope this helps. smile

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

It does, I'm pretty much sold GD :)

Ultimo · King of the Ring

-- Edited by Ultimo at 09:33, 2007-04-19

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Very cool! Thanks Ultimo!

I found a youtube video of the baseball too. I LOVE IT!

So far the only negative I've found is that it uses a specially designed battery pack. I HATE THAT. I think everything should run on regular AAA batteries. It sucks when you run out of power and can't do anything about it until you recharge the battery pack.

But that's not enough to keep me from getting one since there really are no other options.

Ultimo · King of the Ring

The PSP would kill AAA so quick though, the bateery pack has quite a good life span actually, and you can still play while charging, also there are longer lasting battery packs available too, but they are bigger so look a little unsightly.