Updated 13 Feb, 2012, 6:30 pm IST

Beginner's Guide to Gaming Consoles

12 Jun, 2008, 5:16 pm IST | Nikhil Singh

Confused as hell trying to choose a console that suits your gaming needs? Allow us to help you.

Library
PSP
While a lot of the games released on the PSP are ports of the bigger, better home console versions, it does have a good amount of great exclusive titles. The games, like the console, are easily available just about everywhere. Prices range from Rs 999 to Rs 1,499.

Nintendo DS Lite
The best part about the DS is that it’s fully compatible with GBA games as well, so you have thousands of exclusive games to select from. Unfortunately there’s a lot of ‘crapware’ available on the console as well, thanks to failed experiments by noobish developers, but that aside the console does also have some of the most fun handheld games today.

Since the games are sourced only through the gray market, and there are a lot of duplicate cartridges in the market, the prices could be anywhere between Rs 700 and Rs 1600, depending on the popularity of the title and whether the cartridge is original.

GBA
Huge game library, but the games are extremely simplistic compared to today’s standards. But once again, budget gamers would rejoice at the fact that duplicate GBA carts (original carts are not available anywhere) can be found upwards of Rs 200 at the local toy shops.

Multiplayer
PSP
This supports local wireless multiplayer or Wi-Fi-based free Internet play. Some games support the console’s Game Sharing feature, which allows local multiplayers from a single UMD.

Nintendo DS Lite
Though the games are mainly focused on local wireless play, the console does have quite a number of games that support Internet play as well. Most games with multiplayer modes allow some level of local multiplayer though a single cartridge. GBA games on the DS don’t support multiplayer.

GBA
This one uses the ancient link cable for up to 4-player local multiplayer. The cables are hard to find and can get extremely clumsy. If it’s multiplayer gaming you want, steer clear of this one.

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