Pretty sure you meant that the PSP has ports and remakes which the DS didn't.
No. My unpopular opinion is that the PSP is better than any other handheld released.

But this still begs the question for me of why someone should get pumped for a handheld who's best titles were ports and remakes of 5-10 year old games?
Valkyria Chronicles 2 is not a port or remake.

It's not even like many of the ones you seem to care so much about weren't readily available used on the PSX, on the PSN for PS3, or god forbid, through emulation.
Emulating iso images has persistently defied the phrase "readily available."

And some are really just ports of bad PSX ports of games which are almost 20 years old and easily emulated or have superior versions on other handhelds which are still readily available, creates even less of a reason to get excited.
You should quote another post if you want to argue about "getting excited."

But I didn't buy a PSP to play ports of PSX games and bad ports of SNES games.
Neither did I. I bought it for cutting-edge handheld titles Nintendo was no longer interested in making, not to mention some of the greatest games of all time, looking better than they do on a TV.

Whatever happened to selling a console or handheld on what it brings to the future of gaming, not what it brings from gaming history?
Which days were those?

When the 3DS's most promising title was the Ocarina of Time remake? Or before that? When the DS Lite launched with a remix of Mario levels called New Super Mario Bros.? Or before that? When the Nintendo DS launched with a stickless Mario 64?

Or before that? When the Game Boy Advanced hoped you would buy it for the American version of Super Mario Bros. 2?

Or before that? When the Game Boy Color shipped with a portable Super Mario Bros. 1 and a remake of A Link to the Past?

Vivi, can you please elucidate what age of handhelds you're talking about? Because all I can think of are Peace Walker and Valkyria Chronicles 2's innovative multiplayer, and, yes, those are PSP games!

Being able to go back and play old classics is great, but it's not something for any console to try and hang it's hat on alone.
Not even sure why you're saying "hang it it's hat on alone" at this point.

It's like arguing the biggest selling point for the PS2 was backwards compatibility. If that were true, it'd be a pretty sorry state of affairs for the console.
I'm confused again.