Magi Baring Gifts: Which will you buy/want for Xmas/New Year? PSP or 360?

It's been a while since I posted something so I'm making a new contribution. Enjoy.

Kicking that midget McFly to the curb, take a seat in the De Lorean with me and jump back to the past, this time last year.

PSP was talk of the gaming town with all it's ''so sexy'' and whatever. Since then the dream cast by Sony has gone somewhat sour. Lateness and general fook ups at Sony which I'm tired of highlighting have taken toll. Save for my gloating and laughing evil genius style saying ''I told you so'', I do take a certain satisfaction in being right (somethin I know I'm not always and rightly so) about the DS potential over PSP. Dig through the old forum posts if you can be asked to.

Cutting to the chase at present with DS kicking Sony to the curb despite technology wise painting on canvas instead of a high end PC paint package. What happened to the great marketing goliath that is Sony, I thought they were gonna take down DS David, Sony fans?

This humbling for Sony no doubt as they scratch their heads in wonder, but what Sony forgot to do is look at history of the game industry. It's a fact that the most cutting edge tech won't always win hands down. We all only have to look at the premature demise of the fantastic Sega Dreamcast against PS2 for the fossils, and N64 against PSone before that. Enough with the history lesson, no get you arse back in the car, please.

Back to the future, at present the PSP is due to launch in the u.k and europe next weekend and good luck to Sony for launch day. Let's hope for their sake the public bite and buy hard.

Why you ask? There's two big reasons they might not. The first is the DS (for reasons we already know, cheap and good games etc) and the second and more hard hitting is the imminent invasion of 360.

Now time for the Doc Brown science bit. If PSP is costing £180 and you can get a 360 Core pack for about £200-210, who the hell is gonna buy a PSP? Dixons etc are already taking pre orders for 360 and I'm sure it's not long before the ads start up to push 360 on us.

Xmas is expensive whoever you are, but my questions to you good people are these (as well as the one above). Which will you be buying PSP or 360, if any at all? Which tempts you gaming tastebuds most? Do you think Sony will survive the tag team smackdown from 360 and DS and walk away breathing? How should Sony apply CPR to PSP to get it back in the game, (apart from the web browser/UMD movie crap)? Will PSP go out like the Game Gear which also tried to do so much?

Dammit! Some pikey bastard has nicked my De Lorean. Where's a wheel clamper when you need one? Come back(/forward to) here, McFly you midget pikey!

(Notice the Irish connection running here, McFly is Irish as are most pikeys, and the De Lorean was also built in Ireland til they went tits up in trouble. Cunning placed, don't you agree?)

Your thoughts please.

First up, you can't really say the whole Irish/Pikey thing. That's clear-cut racisim dude and you need to edit that.

On topic, it's something that I hadn't rerally thought about, though it's not as clear cut as a two horse race. You have a slim PS2 for perhaps as little as £70, almost free GameCube hardware, DS, Game Boy Micro, PSP, cheap Xbox (again, perhaps £89 or so?) and PSP.

It will be down to marketing and store space. I think both will sell very well, though I think I'd rather have a PSP for its undenable beauty. Though the lack of tinkering with Ver 2.00 FW does put me off - We'll have to see what MS pulls out of the bag at X05.

Edit - You can't edit now. I'll get someone here to do it. And don't do it again! :-)

It up to you if you edit it. Please note use of the word pikey is done so in a comedic sense and in no way meant in any racist term.

In the u.k when you live with irsh scottish welsh english and french folk close by it helps to have a sense of humour about it. If anyone is offended it's not meant as such and only to tickle oyu funny bone and inject some humour in the post. And edit would cut it down to making little sense with the McFly thing.

Hell I have irish friends and scottish friends too, even one irish scot (how many can say that?) and he's a laugh, so it helps to laugh rather than get out the racism card. A little tongue and cheek humour is good for everyone. I like scottish, irish and any folk whereever they hale from and I'm a big BTTF fan too.

Onto the topic. I'm wondering where stores are gonna get the space for these consoles and still meet demand sicne there more out/due now than there ever was before.

PS3 most people will also be saving for and once that and Rev out it might be curtains for PSP as it get buried. We'll see soon.

I don't think there is any question that they PSP will sell, and sell well. Almost everyone I speak to still wants one.

And it is undeniably beautiful. After having had one for nearly 10 months I still think it is an awesome thing.

But comparing it with the 360 is comparing apples and paving slabs. One is easy to carry and nutritious, the other isn't.

No one is gong to say, I want a home console, I'll buy a PSP, nor are they going to say, I want a portable console MP3 movie player, I'll buy a X360 and a go-cart full of car batteries.

I wished Sony well with the PSP when it first appeared. Now, after the massive amounts of launch delay callous bullshit, and the piss poor attitude to importing, I really couldn't care less if it succeeds or not.

We need Sony as a counterbalance to Microsoft, but it seems less like a battle of good-against-evil nowadays.

I still wouldn't have a DS in the house. It looks like something that was designed by a retard.



I think it was nice of the British taxpayer to buy mr DeLorean so much cocaine and soo many hookers.

Doc, put that scalpel down, it's not time for your cameo role in DS Trauma Center yet....lol.



Sure others will want one but they'll find out the truth we all know, that it's not all that really. I know the british public can be easily led and the media will whip it up some but they still won't catch Nintendo up globally, to the 7 million + target (I doubt it).

I was in no way comparing PSP and 360, if you had read the post carefully you'd see that. The point I'm making is that they are in a similar price range (NOTHING ELSE) even if they are different, one home and one takeaway. £180 and £200 are not that far apart. Do you understand what I'm getting at now? It spells danger for Sony and PS3 isn't even here yet.

Will the PSP sell? yes! Sell good? Yes! Beat the DS? Hell no, Nintendo is launching to many big guns for that and understands portable gaming a lot better then Sony does. And Nintendo has the new Pokemon (aka Nintendogs), not Sony.

Will the X360 sell? Depends because we don't have a bloody launchdate yet and probably old Europe is going to get shafted again.

I'm not buying both because my PC, GameCube and DS need some loving (aka new games) and thats a big hole in my wallet.

But if all of those consoles and games do collide with each other this holiday season...at least one of them is going to give and i'm not going to predict which one.

Dude, I'm guessing it was the title: "Which will you buy/want for Xmas/New Year? PSP or 360?" that threw the man.

I done gone read that near on ten times now. And carefully!

Still seems to me as if you're saying it's an either/or ;-)

Never claimed to be perfect Rod, but you observations are noted. But less aboput that and just answer the question if you are gonna bother posting, man.

Makes it a little pointless if I post asking for your views to then not get them due to slating at my post titles.

Perhap both you and I should keep it simple and to the point.

I think they are in competition with one another. People only have so many £ with 'games' written on them and they have to choose what they'll spend them on.

That's why launching Halo 3 against the PS3 is a nifty takedown strategy. A game and a console are clearly not the same thing, but they are competing for the same money.

This Christmas I'd put my money on the XBox 360. The Christmas market is very important, it's a bigger box, it's got shinier graphics and the comparison in price is well made - people expect the handheld to be cheaper. Ever since the earliest days handhelds have been cheaper and I think that will be very hard trend to buck, especially when there is such a great direct comparison.

Anyway PGR3 or Wipeout Fusion?

If I had a big whack of money in my hands, what would I spend it on?
PSP and 360 are competing. It's maybe not like for like but you can only spend so much on games and you can only spend so much time playing them.

I think I'd rather sit on the fence right now anyway, see what the games turn out like (there's a couple on psp that look interesting to me, xbox - who knows?). I'm guessing which is going to have a price cut first or which will get a really good bundle if they don't want to go down the price cut road.
I don't want to be FIRST to have a new system, when I buy a new one it's because it offers me something that the old ones are no longer capable of. I'm not sure if either of those are doing that yet. I think they both could, but they aren't doing it yet for me.

To me it's the Japanese DS games that look the most interesting. Ouendan looks insane and the surgery one looks good too.
But saying that, PSP winning eleven is looking very tempting.

Agreed. Having an Atari Lynx (don't laugh - well, okay, go ahead) I know too well that the handheld market is one that you can't rush into. Graphics alone won't win the battle.

It's also probably why I haven't gotten a handheld since then. Although there were some fun games for the system, it has been sitting in the storage closet for the past few years now.

I have to agree, Ouendan looks groovy and definitely worth importing if they decide not to translate it for release. Sometimes you need a dose of cultural japanese madness that's untainted by western hands of marketing suits.

I'm happy that Nintendo don't mind us importing those rare games we might not see like they used to (even though they might not say it out loud). Ouendan and Trauma Center are my current must have on DS, along with Sonic Rush.

Was it just me or did someone in this thread imply that people would save for a ps3 over buying a 360 or PSP?

In my opinion, 360, followed closely by DS, and then an unsure PSP.

For more detail on why waiting for the ps3 won't benefit anyone.. enjoy! http://forums.spong.com/en/html/forum/viewThread.jsp?forum=8&thread=2459&cb=1125370605687

I'm getting a 360.

Up here in Newcastle, it's weird; there's some sort of PSP apathy. People have expressed interest, but have no intention of buying. I guess the whole "multimedia" thing is no pull in a student city full of iPods and portable DVD players...

Praise the lord I have a nice new job, so I'll bagging a 360 for xmas if not new year.

If PS3 is any good I'll bag one too. A PSP will come my way when some decent games or out and that doesn't look too soon.

Come on 360, I wanna indulge in Burnout Revenge on Xbox Live.