# Will I be left in the dust if I buy a PS2 or PSP in the next couple of months?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 8, 2006, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-be-left-in-the-dust-if-i-buy-a-ps2-or-psp-in-the-next-couple-of-months/363617 "2006-07-08T11:56:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-be-left-in-the-dust-if-i-buy-a-ps2-or-psp-in-the-next-couple-of-months/363617/21 "2006-07-10T20:51:08Z")

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The PSP is on the way down, IMO – game sales are flat, there aren’t any (as far as I know) compelling titles on the horizon, and even the UMD movies aren’t selling. People are apparently buying PSPs and using them as media players, but I don’t know anyone who actually owns one.

The Nintendo DS Lite, on the other hand, kicks so much portable gaming ass it’s not even funny. The screen is hands-down the best I’ve ever seen on a portable, and the DS game library is starting to really pick up steam – between tried-and-true mainstays like _New Super Mario Bros., Mario Kart DS, Tetris DS,_ and _StarFox Academy,_ and “adult-oriented” games like _Big Brain Academy, Phoenix Wright,_ (lawyer-based RPG) and _Trauma Center_ (surgery simulation) makes it more original, IMO. The built-in Wi-Fi makes it damn easy to start impromptu multiplayer games, and now that more games are coming out with internet play means it’s even more viable.

I’ve only acquired a NDS about a month ago, but I seriously think this machine is set to take the world by storm in the near future.

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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-i-be-left-in-the-dust-if-i-buy-a-ps2-or-psp-in-the-next-couple-of-months/363617/22 "2006-07-11T23:40:53Z")

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> [@asterion](#):
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> Also, saying what kind of games you like to play would help.

I like action/adventure games, some racing games (generally, the less realistic, the better), FPS, fighting games, and pretty much all sports games (though I wish EA didn’t hold exclusive or near-exclusive licenses to everything; IMO the best sports games were Sega’s 2K series, NFL Blitz, and its massively underrated hockey cousin). Basically your standard 18-30-year-old-male type tastes. I like some RPGs and “thinker’s games”, but not enough that the quantity of them would affect my decision.

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