Sony: DSi vs. PSP and the kids factor
Filed under: Gaming, Nintendo DS, Sony PSP | By: Alan Ng
Posted on: April 6, 2009 | 22 Comments
We wrote to you last week discussing the debate on how Sony would counter the release of the Nintendo DSi. Well it looks as if Sony have made the first move in the war of words as a Sony PR press release given to Engadget reveals some feisty comments.
As the press release from Engadget reads, Sony have labelled the DSi a kid’s toy, reaching out to a ‘kids’ market, which they have ‘always’ targeted. They say there is limited support for the DSi from external publishers, which will effect the DSi in the long run. They point out the growing number of publishers commited to the PSP at the moment, highlighting upcoming games such as Rock Band: Unplugged, Assassin’s Creed and Dissidia: Final Fantasy. They then big up the games coming directly from their own studios such as Little Big Planet and Motorstorm.
It will be interesting how Nintendo react to this statement from Sony. Who do you support at the moment? Let us know what you think of Sony’s comments.
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Trying to decide between the 2 for christmas presents for my kids; girl 7 & boy 13……
Yea dsi is better than Psp but dsi and Psp shoud to make more updates.
p.s i wrote this on my dsi.
well i bought the dsi and the psp is really good with the multimedia but the dsi has a lot of space for game downloads and it came out with the new facebook picture upload app and that really made a one up for nintendo and well nintendo has been around for years so i choose nintendo
NDSI SUC*s, there is no fun with it, no chckhen no custom frmware, no backing up games, total waste of money. PSP 3000 is way better than that krappy little dsi. And guys, you actually can use gmail, and could also use instant messeging, and can also watch youtube videos just need custom firmware and psp ultimate tube
correction. The ndsi can back up games. the way i see it the ndsi has pretty much same functions as a psp but most of the games on nds gets tedious and annoying cause of the stylus game play, same goes for the psp, its awsum at first but after a while the button mashing gets boring. i would go for the ndsi cause you can choose game play that involves stratergy (using stylus alot) or sensless button mashing or both, unlike the psp which is mainly button pushing, and start games on the psp is just pethetic, its clungy and slow