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PS3 and PSP Vs Wii and DS; Did Sony or Nintendo have the better double team of consoles?

Will the superior tech or wonderful innovation prevail?

  • PS3/PSP

    Votes: 184 29.5%

  • Wii/DS

    Votes: 440 70.5%
  • Total voters
    624
Discontent

Discontent

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While some of you might say one side has the stronger console and the other side has the stronger handheld I legit think all 4 are amazing. PSP might drag the Sony side down for some people but for me I think it's better than the PS3 don't hate me lol and I also think Wii is also not far behind PS3. And the DS speaks for itself, legendary console with a library that can compete with any console imo.
 
sir_crocodile

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PSP doesn't drag the PS3 down, it carries it on its back. Half-Minute Hero is the best game on either platform imo

That said, DS does the same for the Wii. I'd go with the DS overall, all those great third party games, especially Phoenix Wright (at least for the western market, I guess Japan already got the first three on the GBA) & Ghost Trick. And there are more Wii games of interest to me then PS3 games. DS>PSP>Wii>PS3
 

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This is not a close one for me. The Wii has a fantastic library of first party games, and the DS' library was astonishingly good compared to the PSP.
 
Clive

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Depends on if you had an Xbox 360 or not since much of the PS3's library could be covered by that console. If no other consoles (or PC) existed in this hypothetical scenario then I would pick the PlayStation combo but I'd rather have an Xbox 360 + Wii + DS than Xbox 360 + PS3 + PSP.

Getting all the big multiplats puts the PS3 at the top IMO: Resident Evil, Bioshock, Mass Effect, RDR, GTA, Saints Row, Final Fantasy, more Tales games, Telltale, Persona 5, Borderlands, Dishonored, Souls, Batman, Assassin's Creed, DmC, DMC4, Yakuza etc. etc. etc.
 
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It’s Time To Go

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I much prefer the PS3 library overall from the Wii, but the Wii's outstanding titles are really outstanding, and the DS has my favourite game library of all time, so its not much of a contest.
 
ForthU

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PS3 and PSP were better systems with better libraries than the respective Nintendo systems. That said though, Wii probably holds a bigger place in my heart than Ps3
 

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The PSP is way better than the DS in my opinion, but I think the Wii library is really underrated and superior to the PS3. Overall I'd probably give it to the Wii/DS.
 
Gartooth

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DS > PS3 > Wii > PSP

DS is an all around excellent platform, my favorite gaming handheld excluding the Switch. PS3 wasn't great for the first couple years but it did a great job recovering and I have really fond memories of it from around 2009 to 2013.

Wii was also pretty great but it did have some rough patches with 1st party support in its last couple years. I dont really have any fondness towards the PSP. I played some games here and there but the library didn't capture me like the other three.
 
entremet

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I prefer the Wii/DS

But the PS3/PSP were mighty fine systems.
 

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Definitely prefer the PS3/PSP combo, but I'm not that into portable systems, so the DS being superior doesn't make much of a difference to me, personally.

I do love Professor Layton, though.
 

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bionic77 said:
Yup.

I didn't like the libraries of the PS3 and Wii very much but the PS3 was really good for watching media.
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I liked the Wii. A new DKC, first Xenoblade, Galaxy games, my first contact with MH, Muramasa, the Prime Trilogy, Excite Truck and yes I know, MKWii isn't that great but thanks to that game and the community back then I got to know many of my best friends today.
 

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DS beats all of them and the Wii was the last console to get good light gun ports from the arcade. My friends and I put a stupid amount of time into Ghost Squad, so that pair wins.
 
The Crystal Exarch

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For my personal tastes, I prefer the PS3 + PSP. I spent hundreds upon hundreds of hours on my PSP (mainly on Dissidia and 012).

But to the market in general I think Wii + DS takes this crown. The DS alone could take all the others head-on; to this day I still discover and play new games on it and they're a blast.
 
arlu

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For better or worse, I feel like the Wii/Ds era was more unified in terms of vision, with games like Brain Training and Wii Sports, so it presented a single strategy in that regards. And so did the marketing and trailers and ads for the pair, and I like that merge in comunication/presentation.

With the Sony portable consoles, I didn't get that. And sometimes it felt like their vision was: "Hey, here's a lesser version of our console offering that you can take with you anywhere".
 
Japanmanx3

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PSP never ascended. Wii + DS soared for the duration. PS3 struggled but got super swole later into the game. It carried the PSP easily.
 
bionic77

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Mazzle said:
I liked the Wii. A new DKC, first Xenoblade, Galaxy games, my first contact with MH, Muramasa, the Prime Trilogy, Excite Truck and yes I know, MKWii isn't that great but thanks to that game and the community back then I got to know many of my best friends today.
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I kind of put the DS with the prior gen as the GBA was killed so early.

But the PS2 and DS were systems I bought a ton of games for. I played way less of my Wii and PS3. Their libraries just didn't click for me.
 

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bionic77 said:
I kind of put the DS with the prior gen as the GBA was killed so early.

But the PS2 and DS were systems I bought a ton of games for. I played way less of my Wii and PS3. Their libraries just didn't click for me.
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For me tha GBA felt always lackluster. Sure it had great Castlevania and Metroid games on Top of Minish Cap, Mario & Luigi and Golden Sun but it had too many ports from NES/SNES games for my taste. And during the PS2 era, I was a GCN kid (and I love my Cube) but I played more on Wii ( I was able to afford more) and the DS just had so fucking many sleeper hits. Heck, once the DS was in it's final days, I grabbed many of those sleepers for a few Euros on Amazon and reseller. Amazing stuff
 
KillerMan91

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Clive said:
Depends on if you had an Xbox 360 or not since much of the PS3's library could be covered by that console. If no other consoles (or PC) existed in this hypothetical scenario then I would pick the PlayStation combo but I'd rather have an Xbox 360 + Wii + DS than Xbox 360 + PS3 + PSP.

Getting all the big multiplats puts the PS3 at the top IMO: Resident Evil, Bioshock, Mass Effect, RDR, GTA, Saints Row, Final Fantasy, more Tales games, Telltale, Persona 5, Borderlands, Dishonored, Souls, Batman, Assassin's Creed etc. etc. etc.
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Pretty much this. if we compare just exclusive games of each console I can see argument for putting Wii and DS (or perhaps even PSP) over PS3 but if PS3 was you only HD console (and you didn't have even gaming PC) it wins by big margin because of its insane third party support (well at least for me).
 
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Discontent

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KillerMan91 said:
Pretty much this. if we compare just exclusive games of each console I can see argument for putting Wii and DS (or perhaps even PSP) over PS3 but if PS3 was you only HD console (and you didn't have even gaming PC) it wins by big margin because of its insane third party support (well at least for me).
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Yes this should be taking into account the multiplatform games and not disregarding PS3 because there was also the 360.
 
Phoenom

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All 4 systems had great games, but the ones on Wii and DS were far more interesting and unique.
 
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Mazzle said:
Dude, seriously... We all know that the PSP had some really good games, especially from JP 3rd Parties, but the DS was a monster.
The PSP was very successful but the DS killed it in comparison for a good reason
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It definitely eclipsed it in sales but looking back at the games on both systems, the PSP definitely takes it imo. The PSP had at least 10 great fighting games whereas the DS has very, very little to offer. Racing games is like a 20:1 ratio in PSP's favour too. RPG's are about equal; amazing on both consoles. Where are the good 3D action games on DS? PSP has two amazing GoW games and THREE GTA games. Where are the DS equivalents to Afterburner and Ace Combat? Or Kenka Bancho and the Yakuza games? PSP fanboyism is the best kind of fanboyism cause that's exactly what a fanboy would say lol.
 
Flon

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That's a tough one.

I prefer the DS library to the PSP, but that system has excellent games too. I actually prefer the previous gen library on both the systems; PS1 for PSP and GBA for DS.

There's a few games I enjoy on the Wii, like Xenoblade and Kirby, but I much prefer the PS3 library because of all the third parties and RPG's. I mostly used the Wii for Gamecube games.
 
ascii42

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Just looking at my shelves, I have 43 PSP games and 125 PS3 games, compared to 18 DS games and 14 Wii games, to say nothing of digital games I've bought or played through PS+. But of course not all games are equal.
 
Bard

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Wii had Xenoblade and DS had the best pokemon games ever made on it. This isn't even close.
 
Japanmanx3

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Liam Allen-Miller said:
By what definition? PSP sold tremendously well (over 80m units iirc) and had a ton of excellent games. All four of these machines were undeniably huge.
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It got kneecapped from piracy. Especially in comparison to the DS's output, which also suffered from piracy, but did triple digits. Sony's handheld vision never really recuperated from that and the Vita is proof of it.
 
Indy_Rex

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With the exception of Galaxy 1+2 and maybe Prime 3, Wii had the weakest entries into its first party franchises, while the DS had some of the strongest.

If anything Nintendo's Wii output was lackluster and uninspired, with so much of it catering to the gimmick and even fewer of them doing so successfully. Meanwhile, the PS3 was getting some of the best original releases and amazing follow-ups to their existing first-party releases.

The PSP was all kinds of amazing too. I think the PS3, PSP and DS are all consistently great, while the Wii just... existed to sell non-gamers as many plastic accessories and controllers as it could.
 

LostCauseUnite!

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I didn't really like the Wii. But loved the DS.

I also didn't really like the PS3, but loved the PSP.

So this is difficult, I'm gonna go with the DS. It had a gargantuan library in the end. Hm, oddly enough, PS2+DS combo meshed pretty well imo. Has anyone else tried it? You covered many bases.
 
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