...and, frankly, I'm a little underwhelmed. I've had a PSP for over a year now, but I primarily use it to listen to music (as I'm too cheap and lazy to save up and get an iPod). This summer I am going to be without the ability to hook up an Xbox for a while and my computer's sound card is on the fritz, so I wanted a cheap and good gaming platform. I'd heard good things about Civilization Revolution on the DS, so I decided, being a big Civ fan, to pick up a DS and a copy of Civ Rev. Only the store didn't have Civ Rev. So I bought Pokemon Platinum instead. It's a really good game (I've played Pokemon on other people's systems before and loved it), but the DS itself is rather lacking in comparison to the PSP. I especially dislike how the main menu makes you turn off the system to return to the homepage and that there is no way to see the battery level (until it goes to red) when in game. But then, I've only had it five hours, and of those five, only used it for two. My opinion will probably change with time.