Gameboy Advance / Gameboy Advance SP

It depends PSP is more of a media player at the moment and will not have a large number of games, especially decent ones, for a while. Sony are also keen to market its movie and music playing abilitys. Obviously an iPod or similer mp3 player is better for music and I wonder about the popularity of dvds on the move. Also you can use memory sticks to put MPEG 4 videos on the PSP but for movies you need the USD format disk and not many movies are out for that yet. (can anyone say mini-disk?).

For pure quality of games the obvious choice is a SP or DS. Remember a DS can also play GBA games only you cannot use link cables so multiplay is out of the question. On the other hand you can play DS games.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by Damien

It depends PSP is more of a media player at the moment and will not have a large number of games, especially decent ones, for a while. Sony are also keen to market its movie and music playing abilitys. Obviously an iPod or similer mp3 player is better for music and I wonder about the popularity of dvds on the move. Also you can use memory sticks to put MPEG 4 videos on the PSP but for movies you need the USD format disk and not many movies are out for that yet. (can anyone say mini-disk?).

For pure quality of games the obvious choice is a SP or DS. Remember a DS can also play GBA games only you cannot use link cables so multiplay is out of the question. On the other hand you can play DS games.

There are already a large number of games for the PSP and there will be about 20 or more when it launches here. the 6 games I have are very good.

You can fit a full movie on a 512MB mem stick however it will not match the quality of a UMD purchased film, with its menu and some that feature DVD like extras. I think there are already about 10 UMD movies out is the USA so far. I got Spiderman 2 free with my PSP and the quality is amazing.

[zoombini]

I have (had) 3 GBA's (1 per child) until one got it's screen broke (unless anyone has a spare?) and I can see that we will be having 3 x SP before too long.

They dont arf keep em quiet in the car on long journeys.

[Gareth]

Originally Posted by zoombini

I have (had) 3 GBA's (1 per child) until one got it's screen broke (unless anyone has a spare?) and I can see that we will be having 3 x SP before too long.

They dont arf keep em quiet in the car on long journeys.

Yep, ain't that the truth. My missus and the little 'un will be going on holiday next month, which is a 2½ hour drive to Gatwick, followed by a 2 hour flight. Thank God for GBA!!!