Senior executives from Microsoft's Xbox division have commented on Sony's plans for the PlayStation Portable, with Peter Moore dismissing the console's launch as being similar to a company trying to challenge the Windows operating system. Nintendo's dominance of the handheld market makes Sony's launch "like developing your own little operating system and saying, 'Well, I'm going to challenge Windows'," Moore told questioners at a Halo 2 Backstage Pass event in Seattle late last week, according to a report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Chief Xbox officer Robbie Bach was less dismissive of the system, but he argued that the launch was largely irrelevant to the Xbox business. "I think, in general, it's different than our [console] business," he told the audience. "We've yet to see anybody make a meaningful connection between having a console and having a handheld," he continued, although he did acknowledge that Nintendo had attempted to do so with the GameCube and GBA link-up.
News source: GamesIndustry.biz
Chief Xbox officer Robbie Bach was less dismissive of the system, but he argued that the launch was largely irrelevant to the Xbox business. "I think, in general, it's different than our [console] business," he told the audience. "We've yet to see anybody make a meaningful connection between having a console and having a handheld," he continued, although he did acknowledge that Nintendo had attempted to do so with the GameCube and GBA link-up.
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Asphalt Urban GT flies onto the Nintendo DS on four very fast wheels, combining the virtues of both simulation and arcade racing. Players will hit the streets in a wide range of licensed high-performance cars, including Lamborghini, Jaguar, Hummer and more, on tracks from around the world.
Sprung creates an entirely new genre for portable gaming by putting players in the middle of an engaging, risqué and daring adventure with sexy singles at a hip ski resort. The dating simulation, or “stimulation,” title features gender-specific adventures, entertaining dating missions and a hilarious script written by North Shore (FOX) writer Colleen McGuiness.
Rayman®, one of the most recognizable videogame characters around the world, arrives for the first time in full 3D glory on a handheld as he battles to defeat the pirate terror that has enslaved his world. Rayman DS is poised to repeat the successful performance of its predecessor, Rayman® Advance, which was among the top-ten selling launch titles for the Game Boy® Advance system in 2001.
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Sony has been bad mouthing the XBOX pleanty...this is just mud slinging. Not to mention, MS is just paving the way for the XBOX2 & the invevitable XBOX Mobile (XBM sounds like a good name).
Btw, Ballmer isn't a retarded monkey...an over-energetic monkey perhaps, but not a retarded one.
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the PSP might be great and will proberly sell in reasonable numbers
but there is no way it will challege nintendo in the handeld market
it might take 2 -3% of it
id still rather get a psp tho
now however i believe psp has a more worldwide market potential, while the ds appeals more to north america/europe? correct me.
I hope the PSP does great.. there is definately room for two big handheld consoles out there!
I like microsoft, but i think they under estimate the ability for the market to shift from one big company to another, and put too much stock into consumer fanboyism that keeps consumers comming back to the same company over and over
Gameboy has almost become as synonmous with portable gaming as Kleenex has to facial tissues. While there is a lot of excitement out there for the PSP, there was for the SP as well, and the higher price compared to the already decent GBA kept a lot of people from buying them for a while.
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