Hey, just wanted to get your opinions on something (or start another console war!)

I've had my PSP since launch day, but lately I've hardly bought anything for it...latest thing I bought was FM 2008 and that was only cos my laptop was bust and i had to kill time at uni while other people finished their exams

No recept PSP games have seemed to grab me, plus I've got a PS3 so that's what I use for my serious gaming

So I'm considering trading in the PSP and the games I have left (Fight Night Round 3, FM 2008, Jackass the game, NFL Street 2:Underground and World Championship Snooker 2007) and getting a DS Lite and some things like Brain Training, Trauma Centre, Guitar Hero and then stuff like Sudoku/Crossword puzzle ones and a Driving Theory one

Does anyone here have a DS Lite or have experience on one?  What would you recommonend?

Basically I'm not looking for the DS to be a hardcore gaming machine, that's what the PS3 is for given that I've already completed about 15 games and am eagerly anticipating COD5, Resistance 2, Prince of Persia, etc

I would recommend pirating games, yarrrr.

DS, just because statistically speaking you are more likely to have a couple of friends with one than a psp. It may not have the power of the psp but the games are different and the touch screen does add some cool gameplay.

Download play is one of the best reasons to get a ds. If you want to play multiplayer with someone on a particular game you don't have to have two copies of the game (in most cases anyway). You can just download a temporary copy while you play your friend. Once you are done it deletes itself.

I have a DS-lite myself. I don't really play it that much anymore with work and all. But at uni it brought hours of entertainment.

Bomberman, Mariokart, Metroid Prime Hunters, Clubhouse games etc

(oh yeah and you can pirate like Eljay said. Just look up R4DS, it lets you play movies and music on your ds too.)

r4 cards are so cheap on amazon nowadays
buy one for sure!

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Originally posted by Eljay
I would recommend pirating games, yarrrr.

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Guitar heroes for the DS is awesome! I nicked it off my sister, it's really good fun - and the guitar duels are ace

To be honest, the graphics on the ds suck. Depends on what you are looking for a handheld really... if you are into playing a lot not so mainstream games, then I would go for the ds. I would also go for the ds if you are looking for a more multiplayer option.

If you plan on playing any action sort of games, I would probably go back to the psp as the ds sucks for games suck as that. I own a ds like and I would say that an R4ds is probably the best purchase that I have made for it. I lets me weed out the crap from the awesome.

Mario Kart is pretty awesome for ds. So is Metroid and Bomberman and Zelda. Essentially, those are all the games that I play on a regular basis. Oh if you are into puzzle games, the ds has a shitload of them. I would say that the most awesome one so far is Professor Leighton and the Curious Village.

Why would you buy a DS when the psp has limitless possiblities one being emulaters like snes, nintendo 64,sega,FBA ... the list goes on. also you can have custom made software on it. And why would you buy games when you can easy download the iso and put it strait on your psp card. It is easier to and cheaper to get your psp done than DS.

the only thing you can do with a DS is put DS and GBA roms which i find pointless seeing you can already put gba roms on the psp. and putting music? why would you want to do that iv heard music on the ds it sucks to be honest.

If you do end up getting a DS get a Supercard not an R4 i find them better. But this is just my oppinion offcoures.

As stated before, if you get a DS, buy a flash card (R4DS is a good one) so you can *cough* download games .

i own one and im quite happy with it. I was gonna buy a psp, but by the time, i had a PS2 and you could find pretty much every PSP game on the PS2 .

Graphics are worse, so if that matters for you, you may not be happy at all (although they ain't THAT bad, just check out some videos on youtube and see for yourself ). i prefer gameplay over graphics so that's ok with me, and there are A LOT of great-fun games

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(Plus you can play the final fantasy 4 remake, which is awesome )
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Why would you buy a DS when the psp has limitless possiblities one being emulaters like snes, nintendo 64,sega,FBA ... the list goes on. also you can have custom made software on it.

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And why would you buy games when you can easy download the iso and put it strait on your psp card. It is easier to and cheaper to get your psp done than DS.

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and putting music? why would you want to do that iv heard music on the ds it sucks to be honest.

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psp has limitless possiblities one being emulaters like snes, nintendo 64,sega,FBA

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(Plus you can play the final fantasy 4 remake, which is awesome )
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I would say get one, but the only thing is, Nintendo looks like they will release their next-gen hand-held soon. Rumour has it that it is already completed, but not in manufacturing because of the strong sales of the current DS.

Bioware's new Sonic Chronicles for the DS is going to be awesome, like all of Bioware's titles.

I got the DS purely to use it with the Brain training games (sad I know) and only problems I've had with it is it recognising my handwriting and voice (but seems to be a flaw with the DS that it doesn't pick up the scots dialects)

Do have another couple of games including Mario & Sonic at The Olympic Games, the obligatory Pokemon Diamond (which has vanished at the moment) and Final Fantasy III, but is mainly the brain training I use to try get the brain up to scratch (and at least it comes complete with Suduko puzzles too ) Patiently awaiting the arrival of Spore on it

Good for passing the two hour bus journey to Uni three days a week

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Bioware's new Sonic Chronicles for the DS is going to be awesome, like all of Bioware's titles.

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The PSP is good, but it's far too serious, the DS is so much fun it's unbelievable. I used to be such a psp fanboy, but after using both loads, you realise how amazing the DS is.

It's sticking to it's roots and it really does work...

I x4 Traxor. Guitarhero is out of this world it's so fucking awesome, I swear I will nick this ds from my sister.. and keep it

Get an EEE PC.

Nah, kidding. (Well, not really, but kidding in the sense it's not a console). I have a PSP but I'd probably choose a DS, just because thanks to seriously rampant piracy the PSP's new games list is suffering.

In all honesty, I'm not that much a fan of handhelds. I had a GBC and the only games I ever had for it were Pokémon Blue & Yellow.

While the remakes of FF4 and Chrono Trigger look nice, I've played both games through like five times, so I would lose interest too quickly.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but new games just aren't appealing to me any more.

I have a DS and I don't think I've played a handheld so much since the glory days of the GameBoy! There's a lot of decent games out there that you can play again and again. For example, Mario Kart and Tetris.