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It was more colorful too
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as a PSP user the PSP is the coolest looking device with the most shitass graphics and games
it's idolized so much in retrospect but honestly the DS was more iconic
Man what, the PSP was the most advanced handheld of its time. The DS had a worse screen and was much weaker but got away with it because games were really simple visually. PSP games look great.
Seriously. The PSP was a portable PS2, while the PS2 was still on top of the world. The DS was a gimmicky toy that sold better because it was priced and designed for play.
One aspect of that which seems obscure: the original DS used scanline graphics... for 3D. It could draw exactly 1000 triangles, row by row, at 60 Hz. This made low-poly games dead easy to optimize, and high-poly games an absolute nightmare. This also only worked on one screen at a time, which is why the second screen was always a map or a menu or something. The easy way to do 3D on both screens was to alternate, but that drops the framerate to 30 Hz.
PSP graphics are pretty good tho, DS is a lot crunchier on that front.
I'm sorry but the PSP had a lot of great games. Jeanne D'Arc, Daxter, The Wipeout series, God of War, Metal Gear Peacwalker, Final Fantasy Tactics, loco roco, Crisis Core, Ys Seven, Mega Man Powered Up, Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, Gran Turismo, Monster Hunter, etc.
Yay, love for Ys Seven!!!
Death Jr, Death Jr 2, Work Time Fun, and if you have a PS Vita running Adrenaline then all the ps1 games (idk if the OG psp would too but Adrenaline definitely will).
it's been awhile, years even, since I ran an OG PSP but I do believe I had the PS1 version of Final Fantasy VII on it that I got from the PS store.
I still replay the god of war ones occasionally, great games
All mid except for crisis core
I mostly played GBA through emulation and PS1
and I had a jailbroken PSP and tried dozens of top rated games
My homebrewed PSP was my laptop before I had a laptop. It was an amazingly versatile device considering it's era!
Hmmm I feel both of them are pretty evenly matched. Both have a wealth of great and beautiful games, both have a nice design. I do think the DS is more iconic in the strictest sense. It has the zeitgeist of the gameboy behind it and has been in production longer in some form or another.