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

In My Humble Opinion
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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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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.