12th December 2004, 4:47 PM
First posts here in a really long time and it's a ridiculously certain and incorrect diatribe worthy of anything OB1 has said... sigh...
Um, the DS does have working wireless... it doesn't connect to the internet with it yet, but it definitely connects DSes within the same area together...
Also, right now Sony does NOT have a big advantage in number of games. I'd say that the total number of announced games is pretty similar... perhaps slightly in the PSP's favor, but not by a lot. Nintendo is not way behind here. Look at the Japanese launches -- six to eight games for the DS and five for the PSP. Yes, huge difference there.
And the DS is selling great. I bet that a lot of the people who got one won't be getting two handhelds right off the bat, so while the PSP will also do well initially it's not like it'll immediately destroy Nintendo's market or get people who got a DS not very long ago to switch over.
There's also the fact that you're so skeptical about the uses of a touchscreen... um, all I can say there is that if you can't see it too bad for you but most people here certainly can and know that it's a great innovation to add to a console that truly does make the DS a very different system from the PSP.
Um, the DS does have working wireless... it doesn't connect to the internet with it yet, but it definitely connects DSes within the same area together...
Also, right now Sony does NOT have a big advantage in number of games. I'd say that the total number of announced games is pretty similar... perhaps slightly in the PSP's favor, but not by a lot. Nintendo is not way behind here. Look at the Japanese launches -- six to eight games for the DS and five for the PSP. Yes, huge difference there.

And the DS is selling great. I bet that a lot of the people who got one won't be getting two handhelds right off the bat, so while the PSP will also do well initially it's not like it'll immediately destroy Nintendo's market or get people who got a DS not very long ago to switch over.
There's also the fact that you're so skeptical about the uses of a touchscreen... um, all I can say there is that if you can't see it too bad for you but most people here certainly can and know that it's a great innovation to add to a console that truly does make the DS a very different system from the PSP.