Sony to enter portable gaming market

[Dan East]

I know a lot of you guys cross develop for other platforms, plus this could affect mobile gaming by prompting larger development houses to target mobile devices.

"Sony's upcoming PSP device, scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of 2004, will feature a color screen, computing power equal to the original best-selling PlayStation and a new high-capacity optical disc created especially for it, the company told reporters and analysts at a news conference."

"Sony said the PSP would also feature a 4.5-inch LCD screen, Memory Stick expansion slots."

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm ... ID=2734425

"Development kits are coming out in June" [a slashdot poster]

A response from Nintendo:
"The fact that they are putting a lot of features into it (PSP) is very Sony-like, but at the moment we dominate the handheld market and there is no need for us to be overly concerned right now," Iwata said at a press conference at the start of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the video game industry trade show. "We will continue to do what we do best."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... intendo_dc

Dan East

[gamefreaks]

[sponge]

It's nice to see this for once, instead of the N monster dominating. Keep in mind we have 3 consoles in the console war, and it's not that crowded.

I wonder what this system will be to hobbyists. Quite a community sprang up around the original Playstation, thanks in part to mod chips allowing homebrew games right on the console.