Is There Room For Another Portable Gaming System?

cooldawn wrote:IMO the DS is all you need on the move.

Plus your Phone, MP3 player etc. This is why I love my iphone: Its everything one needs to carry around in one handy, always connected device with good quality games, an open (well almost) platform and my ipod.

Thus, as time moves on and Bigger players start to get in on the iphone dev scene (Monkey Ball was Huge. I expect a sequel from SEGA, hopefully with minigames this time and EA will inevitably come into things soon and Sqeenix made a game for the normal ipods so I imagine they might be looking into it too) it will become the 3rd portable gaming system.

Carlos wrote:

cooldawn wrote:IMO the DS is all you need on the move.

Plus your Phone, MP3 player etc. This is why I love my iphone: Its everything one needs to carry around in one handy, always connected device with good quality games, an open (well almost) platform and my ipod.

Thus, as time moves on and Bigger players start to get in on the iphone dev scene (Monkey Ball was Huge. I expect a sequel from SEGA, hopefully with minigames this time and EA will inevitably come into things soon and Sqeenix made a game for the normal ipods so I imagine they might be looking into it too) it will become the 3rd portable gaming system.

Actually, the MP3 player can be skipped if you've got your DS equipped with an R4.

TheTurnipKing wrote:

Carlos wrote:

cooldawn wrote:IMO the DS is all you need on the move.

Plus your Phone, MP3 player etc. This is why I love my iphone: Its everything one needs to carry around in one handy, always connected device with good quality games, an open (well almost) platform and my ipod.

Thus, as time moves on and Bigger players start to get in on the iphone dev scene (Monkey Ball was Huge. I expect a sequel from SEGA, hopefully with minigames this time and EA will inevitably come into things soon and Sqeenix made a game for the normal ipods so I imagine they might be looking into it too) it will become the 3rd portable gaming system.

Actually, the MP3 player can be skipped if you've got your DS equipped with an R4.

Whilst this is true the Headphone jack on the DS was never meant to play back music, and thus all your Songs sound like they are going through a cheese grater when you listen to them.

I think this thing far to specialized for your average mainstream gamer - it involves putting pc programs like doom etc onto it.... and your average mainstream console gamers favourite PC game is Microsoft Word

Alvin Flummux wrote:

Skarjo wrote:Given that there's no room for the PSP, I'd say no.

The PSPs 37-odd million sales say otherwise.

Indeed. The 10million PSP's sold in Japan recently due just one game does say very different.


Anyway, I voted for the NDS & PSP being more than enough for the handheld market. £199.99 for a handheld is a little to much, regardless of whats on offer, the mainstream just won't buy into it.

The iPhone (ipod touch) is an awesome gaming machine. Labyrinth has me sucked in, and with Invaders, Bubble Bash, Sudoku and Crash Nitro, that takes up all mobile gaming time for me.

Labyrinth is freaking magic though.