Surprises

Surprises

by Mike Masnick




Sony Announces Handheld PlayStation

from the lots-of-gaming-options dept

For years, Nintendo ruled the handheld gaming world with their Gameboy devices. It appears that world is getting a lot more crowded. First, Nokia came along with their game-playing phone, N-Gage, and last week a bunch of ex-Palm officials made news with their own handheld gaming platform scheduled to be launched in the near future. However, today, the big shocker came, when Sony surprised lots of people with plans for a handheld PlayStation. To be honest, it's a bit surprising that they didn't come out with such a product a long time ago. The article doesn't give away much in the way of details (and the device won't come out for some time), but I wonder if it will have any wireless capabilities. At this stage of the game, if you're going to go mobile, you might as well add some sort of wireless networking capabilities.

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    Jun 22nd, 2003 @ 6:19pm
  • fuck sony

    by brent

    sony video games has already ruined sega and now theyre trying to ruin nintendo with this new handheld device... well fuck sony up their stupid little asses. i really wish sony would blow their own fucking brains out those fucking faggots fuck sony video games they should die

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    • Jul 7th, 2003 @ 7:14pm
    • Re: fuck sony

      by Anonymous Coward

      You Sad Sega Fanboy

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    • Jul 9th, 2003 @ 3:57am
    • Re: fuck sony

      by Jonathan Kidsley

      better take a chill pill there mate.

      nothing wrong with competition. always better for
      the consumer

      do you work for microsoft or something?

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    • Jul 18th, 2003 @ 8:57am
    • Re: fuck sony

      by Joe Snyder

      Whoa, chill out dude sony didn't ruin sega. Sega just couldn't keep up on the competition, that's their own problem. And as goes for nintendo it's just competition, it doesn't matter who has better graphics or power. The game boy could do better than the handheld playstation. It's like Xbox and Playstation, Playstation one makes more weekly sales than Xbox by a thousand or so. So basicallly the new handheld playstation is a gamble.

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