Console Wars
I would like, if I may, to talk for a moment on the subject of the DS versus the PSP. Among my video-gaming bretheren, this has become a polarizing issue. Well, it would if we weren't too apathetic to polarize. Anyway, there are certain facts that need to be faced. The PSP has the following in its corner: duel MIPS R4000 processors cranking out 333MHz of speed, a 16.77 million color palate, and an incredibly high-res, 16:9 screen. The DS, comparably, has an ARM9 and an ARM7 working together to create a top processor speed of 67Mhz, a palate of 260,000 colors, and two screens which have a lower combined resolution than the PSP's single screen. Also, and I can't emphasize this enough, the PSP has actual games, see, which you can buy and play; this is something that the DS does not yet have.
Taylor, though, has decided to retain his DS "out of a blind, fanboy optimism that Nintendo will make good games like they've always done in the past." I don't agree with this, but it is a respectable opinion nevertheless. My little brother, on the other hand, who spent the days prior to my trading-in of my DS furiously slandering the PSP, has now thrown logic out the window in a blind, reflexive attempt to disprove the graphical awesomeness with which I taunt him at every available moment. The other day, I mentioned to him that the PSP screen has higher resolution than the DS screens combined. His response went something like this: "So what? I mean, it's not like that matters. Resolution has nothing to do with good images. It's all about processor speed, and the DS just hasn't gotten any games that take full advantage of the processor speed yet."
My point? The PSP utterly owns the DS in terms of hardware, in much the same way as the XBox owns the PS2. The DS has reasons that can and have led people to tolerate what may or may not be a temporary period of utter inadequacy, and that's fine. But I will no longer accept shitfuckery as a justification for arguments about why the PSP sucks. Pick a side and defend it with pride.
Taylor, though, has decided to retain his DS "out of a blind, fanboy optimism that Nintendo will make good games like they've always done in the past." I don't agree with this, but it is a respectable opinion nevertheless. My little brother, on the other hand, who spent the days prior to my trading-in of my DS furiously slandering the PSP, has now thrown logic out the window in a blind, reflexive attempt to disprove the graphical awesomeness with which I taunt him at every available moment. The other day, I mentioned to him that the PSP screen has higher resolution than the DS screens combined. His response went something like this: "So what? I mean, it's not like that matters. Resolution has nothing to do with good images. It's all about processor speed, and the DS just hasn't gotten any games that take full advantage of the processor speed yet."
My point? The PSP utterly owns the DS in terms of hardware, in much the same way as the XBox owns the PS2. The DS has reasons that can and have led people to tolerate what may or may not be a temporary period of utter inadequacy, and that's fine. But I will no longer accept shitfuckery as a justification for arguments about why the PSP sucks. Pick a side and defend it with pride.