The reason is mainly due to a few factors I think.

1. There were many more Playstations compared to Nintendo's counterpart, the Nintendo 64 at that time. Why that? Our industry was the best for it at that time (hint: piracy) with cheap CDs being able to be mass produced so quickly that I could remember when FF8 reached it's release date, and in two days it appeared in game shop shelves. Nintendo's cartridges were hard to duplicate due to expensive hardware, thus not appreciated here.

2. Sony's games targeted mature gamers which was preferred over Nintendo's family oriented games. Unfortunately, Malaysians do not take embarassment very well, do we? Back when I was very young I could swear that playing Puzzle Bobble over one of the coolest series Twisted Metal could have you being smirked at.

The PSP is definitely there with it's great screen, range of games and multi-usage (MP3s, videos, surfing), but I just got too bored with the usual setup. I wanted something different this time, but the PSP hardly changed from it's bland configuration of directionals, four thumb buttons and two shoulder buttons which most consoles already have. It was just a few months ago that I got my NDSL, and I'm still happy with it.