I can disprove
many of his points.
"It's got two screens. Who cares? They have two screens on... everything."
Not on your beloved PSP, that's for sure. Or pretty much any other electronic product.
"The Nintendo DS... it's just a Game Boy."
Nope, they're two different product lines.
"Game Boy has been around since 1987. Check the facts, folks. 1987. It's a 19-year-old system!"
The Game Boy line is 19 years old, as is the original Game Boy.
"Why would you pay 300 dollars for a DS..."
Its $130. Not $300.
"...that's a 19-year-old system?"
See above.
"They didn't really upgrade the technology since the Game Boy."
Did the Game boy have two screens? A touch screen? Even a color screen? No.
"It's pretty much the same amount of memory..."
The Game Boy had 8 kilobytes of RAM. The DS has 4 megabytes.
"Might be a little higher, I dunno."
8 kilobytes vs. 4 megabytes? That's a lot higher.
"The Game Boy had a color screen, and they changed it."
Yeah, they added
many more colors.
"The Sony PSP has all kinds of new features on it..."
So does the DS.
"You can play UMD movies on your PSP. Can't do that on a Nintendo DS."
Of course not, they're two different systems.
"The PSP stands for 'PlayStation Portable'. DS... Who knows what that stands for?"
Dual Screen or Developer's System.
"The games for it are not that good."
Care to name a few examples?
"The DS has less colors than the PSP."
You don't need more colors to make a better game.
"The Sony PSP uses a UMD. That's a Universal Media Disc. It holds over one gigabyte."
You don't need more space to make a better game.
"Nintendo is a Japanese company..."
So is Sony.
"...and some of their reoprts on the systems, they try to trick you by saying giga... giga...flop or something?"
Looks like you read a pretty badly translated report.
"...You can hook up a camera, an EyeToy, I believe?"
You got PS2 and PSP mixed up there.
"[Nintendo says the DS is] portable, but here's the trick; you have to hook it up to a wall to charge it."
Not like it has to be plugged in constantly.
"You can't just charge it while you're walking down the street. What's up with that?"
You have to have the charger plugged in for it to charge.
"[On] the PSP, you can replace the bateries."
Same with the DS.
"You can play the PSP while it's hooked up to the wall."
Same with the DS.
"The PSP also has built-in speakers."
The DS does too.
"They can play music for a whole wharehouse, if you know what you're doing."
Yeah, perhaps if you connected it to a large speaker system?
"You can't buy music for the DS because... it's just not good enough."
No, it's because the DS wasn't designed that way.
"Everything on the DS has been done before."
Certianly not the dual screens and the built-in microphone.
"The touch screen? I've seen that for several years."
On a major game system? No.
"They say it's great because you have two screens. It's not, though. If you want to play classic games, you can't do it."
Yes, you can. Take any of the games that are remakes of other, older games.
"It has a light, it's just gonna waste the battery..."
The PSP has a backlight too.
"...and it's gonna ruin the entire experience, and it's not gonna be fun."
What would be worse is if you couldn't see your game.
"The PSP is built around the idea of fun."
Isn't that what all game systems are meant for?
"Sony makes laptops, they're also pretty fun."
We wern't talking about Sony's other products.
"The PSP's gonna be able to work as a controller on the PS3. The Nintendo DS is not gonna work on it."
Of course not, they're made by two different companies.
"The PSP's got wireless access to connect to the Internet..."
So does the DS.
"If you have a DS, your friend has a PSP, you can't use your DS with a PSP."
They're two different systems. Of course they can't work with each other."My friend had [a DS], and it fell out of his pocket on a trampoline. He wasn't jumping, folks."
How does it fall out if you're not jumping? And for that matter, why would you even have a DS on a trampoline?
"It fell out of his pocket and it destroyed it."
A 2 1/2-3 foot fall onto a bouncy surface is enough to destroy a DS?
Maybe if he were jumping and it fell onto the ground. Maybe.
"I never saw him playing it."
Possibly because you were too busy complaing about the DS to him?
"You can put Linux on your PSP."
Same with the DS."The DS isn't that good, and the PSP is."
You made your point already, and it's not a very good point.
Sheesh. Some people are rather weird.
