Handheld Arguements, aka why the psp is the best handheld.

[Slothy]

And I'm sorry, but ports and remakes do matter. Final Fantasy I-IX, Chrono Trigger & Cross, Xenogears, FFTactics, and Parasite Eve 1&2. These are some of the best RPGs ever made and they look and sound better on the PSP than they do on a TV. And I'll apologize even further - Tactics Ogre is possibly the greatest game I've ever played, and it's best version is only available on Sony's handheld.

I don't think anyone argued that ports and remakes don't matter, but when listing more than a half dozen games worth playing without listing them is difficult, there is something very wrong with a handhelds (or any consoles for that matter) library. After all, any argument about what the thing is capable of starts to go out the window when what it's capable of doesn't amount to much more than playing 10+ year old games on a practical level.

Like I said Bolivar, I like the PSP, but the fact that none of us can seem to name many games worth owning outside of PSX ports and remakes tells me that it really never got the support it deserved. It was a capable little system, but only a handful of games ever bothered to show it. I can't say the same about handhelds like the DS or GBA.

Which is why I generally dislike bringing up ports and remakes as being the best titles on a system. No one will deny that they're great games. No one is going to say that they aren't a point in its favour, especially for those that never played them. But being able to play ten or more year old games doesn't make something the best system ever. I'll say again, it'd be like arguing that the PS2 had the best console library ever because it played PSX games. Sure, that's a good point in favour of owning one, but a really great console or handheld needs more going for it than the ability to play its predecessors greatest hits.