Quote Originally Posted by nirojan View Post
@ Wolf Kanno
PSP has Persona 1, Persona 3, and Persona 2 on the way (and yes they're all remakes/ports of the PS2 versions) and your forgetting the JPN-only SMT: Devil Summoner. The DS on the other hand has Devil Survivor and Strange Journey (which I admit is a main entry). That's 4 entries vs 2 when it comes to the SMT series. 3DS is getting is getting 3 SMT games not 1, an unannounced SMT game (not Persona, probably a new spin-off or Devil Survivor 2), Persona 1 (again a port) and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (a revamped port of the DS title i believe).
Actually it's un-announced Persona title, not P1. It's possible it's a port but its also possible it could be Persona 5. The jury is still out but so far Atlus has only announced Devil Survivor which wasn't even part of the initial game promises they made when the 3DS was originally announced at TGS.


I'm not arguing that the PSP is a superior system. I like my DS waay more than my PSP. Professor Layton, Ace Attorney, DQIX, and the swathe of Nintendo 1st party titles make sure that this is the handheld I play on the subway on my way to school. But for every hardcore title it has it has about 100 shovelware titles. It can't be helped, it's the fastest selling handheld so developers drop cheap crap on it to get as much revenue off the system from unsuspecting parents during holidays and such. PSP has crappy games too, but no where near the same amount that the DS falls victim to. In that regard, PSP is a more harcore device than the DS just in sheer quality of games being released!
I would argue that when you ignore the shovelware and actually ignore some sterotypes (I don't remember when gamers decided puzzle titles and adventure games are not hardcore genres, seeing how they use to be in the old days, and nothing has really changed about the genres at all.) I would argue they are pretty even, the DS just has a more massive library than the PSP, cause it's always been more popular and had more 3rd party support, even if some of that support was just a petty cash in. Yes, the DS doesn't have many good shooters or racers (which is great cause I don't like those genres) but they do have quite a bit of the other genres and puts the PSP to shame in terms of JRPGs, yet my point initially was to say that despite not being considered the "hardcore" system. It's amusing that the game actually gets main entries from popular, and generally considered "hardcore" franchises. Games that could have been big money for major home consoles.

My main point being that designating something as "hardcore" is a personal opinion, but lately it's being stated by people as fact, and I wish to dispel the myth. 2/3rd of the titles you mentioned I find were either terrible (Crisis Core) or completely un-interesting (FPS, GoW, Racing games most of the SRPGs you mentioned). So I can't help but feel the "hardcore" system is the weaker system, simply cause it's bad about supporting my favorite genres. I own both systems as well but I've gotten more out my DS cause it has a better library imo. Most of the PSP's library is lacking for me and I use the system more for downloading and playing PS1 games than anything else. Dissidia, BBS, and FFT are about the only games that have kept my interest. Despite that, I do like both systems, but if I had to choose one over the other, I'd go with the DS.

It's true this debate will go on forever, but I find it silly that people are stereotyping the DS as a non-hardcore system when it probably has as much shovelware as the NES and SNES did, which no one but Sega fan boys and people who didn't live in that generation would actually call non-hardcore. The PSP oddly enough has a very lacking library despite being released the same time as the DS, you would almost think the DS was released a few years earlier.

I feel that KH3D is a pretty good reason to want to pick up a 3DS, especially since part of me feels, BBS2 might still be a PSP title but I could be wrong (or hopeful).