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It was more colorful too (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 12 points 2 months ago* (11 children)

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

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    with the most shitass graphics and games

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    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.

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