Casual games are used by casual gamers, which get used to the touch in 5 seconds, want a pocketable device and a device which is good for many other things beside gameing.
And pressing a button doesnt even need to get used to.
go play a card game on a psp and then tell me that it was anymore difficult than using a touch screen. if it was then i feel sorry for you.
Sorry but this is BLASPHEMY. Ipod NANO is useful for music.
Ipod touch is a inexpensive FULLY FEATURED PALM-TOP COMPUTER which can be used to:
- comfortably open every kind of Office, XML and iWork document
- comfortably read pdf
- read ebooks with excellent applications like Stanza
- control your PC/MAC from everywhere using VNC or similar applications
- use complex and specific calculators and graphic calculators
- create spreadsheet on the go
- create text on the go
- manage COMPLEX email-situations like 10 gmail accounts in IMAP or you 3000-contacts Microsoft Exchange account
- use every possible instant messenger (MSN, gtalk, yahoo, AIM, ecc.)
- update your blog
- take around a database of drugs with side effects and so (handy if you're a nurse or medic)
- carry arround a complete dictionary with pronounce
- excellent clients for twitter and facebook
- excellent RSS feed readers
- specific application for a lot of specific things for phisicians, engeneers, ect
- and these are just the first apps that came in to my mind!!
On a train? in a car? oh no, looks like to have something as useful as an ipod nano.
Half of your reasons are useless without a constant data connection. My Vaio P is more useful than an ipod as it can actually do all that stuff and more, better and anywhere, and still fit on the inside of my jacket pocket. Im not saying the PSP is better than that, but when you look for portability its useless when on the go, as all the information it has to access is gone.
YOUR PROBLEM IS THAT YOU DON'T KNOW APP STORE. Full stop.
We're talking about a fully featured handheld "palm", this kind of stuff was very appreciated a few years ago (you know, when pocketPCs HAD NOT phone connectivity).
So you can't compare it to a MONO-PURPOSE DEVICE which is good at gaming and crap at everything else, like psp.
A monopurpose device that plays games, music, videos, surfs the web, can access rss feeds, have skype calls, remote control your ps3.
1) not true, a lot of excellent apps work offline, so ipod touch can be unvaluable even when not under wifi
2) c'mon, i heard in USA wifi is in every mcdonald, starbuck and stuff like that....
3) but still, I repeat it can be fantastic even without connection, there are so many excellent apps that work offline
There are apps that work offine, i beg to differ that there are any excellent apps that work fully offline (also without any other iphone features) which are not games.
Mac or PC?
For Mac it is false.
For PC I don't know, I heard it got better in the last few releases.
PC, and no it hasnt improved.
"Is that a banana in there or you're just happy to see me??"

C'mon, PSP is NOT a portable device in everyday life....you must bring it "on purpose".....that's why most of us (I own one too) leave it to take the dust...
No its not, but you will know when you have time to play some games, as such you will take it. And it fits in a jacket pocket.
This is false, it's the typical anti-appstore propanganda, it's strange that you have not mentioned iFart, that's a classic in this kind of situation.
You got an iPhone but you don't know App Store very much...
There's plenty of useless sh*t but we're talking about FORTY THOUSAND (and counting..) apps....let's say that 90% is sh*t (but this is false), we've got FOUR THOUSAND good apps left...that's four thousand more things that an ipod touch can do more than a psp.....
i know the app store quite well actually. ok lets take youre assumption that 90% of apps are ****.
of those 4000 left, i would assume that 75% are games.
of the 1000 left i would assume on average there are 10 apps which do the same thing (this includes the lite, paid version thing).
So of the 100 apps left, 80 of them would require an iphone for either its constant data connection, gps, or microphone or a combination of all 3.
Which leaves you with 20, if you have an ipod touch.
This is false, search better. Of course there are a lot of specific stuff (medical, electronic, IT, flight, programming, navigation, ecc.) that maybe you don't even understand...so, from your limited needs/knowledge only a few apps appear decent...but I don't think you know and understand all the 40k apps...
And i have searched, and i would say i have a pretty extensive knowledge of the app store.
Specific stuff for poeple who already have the tools they need to do their work well. As an actuarial studdent i would always use a proper calculator for my calculations over the one built into my phone.
That's non-sense, PSP doesn't have phone connectivity...
Which is why i was saying that the iphone is a better multipurpose device, where as the ipod touh is not, its just not useful enough.
"soo many" is a strong word.
I think it's 50-50.
Enigma, adventures, cards, table games, ecc: TOUCH BETTER
Beat'em'up, Racing, 3rd person, Sport, RPG, FPS: BUTTONS BETTER
But, think about this: somehow, the first geners are more "fit for mobility/small_screen playing" than the latter. I mean, if a mobile devices has to be good at one of those groups, it's better (IMHO) that it is good at the first group.
"Everything" is used in everyday life with the meaning "reasonably a lot of things". It's not as shameful as the Sony ads, which promise some NON-EXISTING functions...
Lets just summarise my arguments, because i dont think you're understanding what im trying to say here.
PSP is better than the itouch for gaming.
Iphone is a better all purpose device.
the ipod touch is useless as an all ppurpose device as it does not have a constant internet connection.