I can agree with the 5:1 ratio thing... I have both a DS and a PSP... and let me tell you, I'm tempted to buy another four PSP's
Yet I was damn close to selling my DS until I saw the screenshots of castlevania running on it.
Seriously, fan boys piss me off. The DS is nice, sure, but can not compare with the PSP in any way. And the fanboys will say "well the DS may not be as powerful but it will have better GAMES" yeah well, where are they? I have 6 games for my PSP and all except one (dynasty warriors) are really great games. I have three for my DS and Mario is really the only one even worth playing, and there are no more out so far that look so great. Yeah the Nintendo exclusives will be good, they always are, but if that's ALL it's gonna have, who cares? The only reason I'm keeping my DS at all is for those exclusives, and for Castlevania. The DS may get some good ones, no doubt, but what, you think the PSP wont??
I looked up fanboy in the dictionary today and found that picture that was floating all over the net a few years back, of the naked man bent completely over with his head shoved in his own ass, but this time he had a big red N painted on his buttcheek.
Don't get me wrong, I've held all along (well, since I bought one at least) that the PSP has faults as well. My biggest gripe with the system is the slow reaction time of the LCD. This problem seems to badly affect dark colors... when dark colored things move around rapidly (or the back ground shifts or whatever) it leaves a visible blur or trail. I first noticed this in ridge racer but thought this was intentional blurring. Then I played Metal Gear Acid, and since all the levels there are bordered by black, whenever you shift the camera or whatnot it blurs real bad. Brighter games like Golf don't suffer from this noticeably.
Some good news for anyone still interested in picking up a japanese one, shipments have been going out steady and the prices have started to come down nicely. Average for a Value Pack used to be around $600, now it's down to low $400 (on ebay, as well as places like Lik Sang).
EDIT: Craig had one thing wrong though, about the speaker running the lenght of the top of the system. Actually, there are four small holes along the BOTTOM of the system (two on the face, two on the actual bottom).
