Entries in 'portable' (40)
Nvidia's Project Shield - plays Android games and streams PC titles from Steam
The Android console sector just got serious with the announcement of a new competitor from PC component juggernaut Nvidia.
You're not going to convince Iwata that handheld gaming is threatened
The question, of course, is whether or not gamers still seek the kind of ‘rich’ handheld experience that portable games consoles offer.
Smartphone gaming is "the biggest content revolution we've ever seen"
The handheld video games market is being killed off by the smartphone sector, metrics firm Flurry Analytics believes.
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Cradle of Rome 2
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This match-three puzzler is already a casual player’s dream – and now it’s heading to 3DS. We find out how it can be an evergreen seller.
Neo Geo has another crack at the handheld market
Reports from the East suggest that SNK Playmore is to have another crack at the handheld market with the release of a new Neo Geo portable.
Vita UMD Passport announced
Sony has revealed a fresh initiative that it hopes will encourage PSP owners to make the step up to PlayStation Vita when it is released in Japan in a month’s ...
Steve Jobs - the man who changed handheld gaming
There are several moments that can rightly be called ‘pivotal’ throughout the history of gaming. The Magnavox Odyssey. Space Invaders. The NES. Game Boy. Sony’s PlayStation. Xbox Live.
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Sony on why 3DS has struggled
It’s a weird world we live in where a person has to explicitly say they’re not commenting on a rival’s device before they’re able to comment on a rival’s device.
Pachter: Vita will rob Nintendo market share
US analyst Michael Pachter believes that the PS Vita will achieve what the PSP did not and eat into Nintendo's handheld market share.
Sony hints at portable 3D
Sony is not ruling out the use of 3D technology for PlayStation small-screen devices such as NGP, the company has said.
FEATURE: Apple vs Nintendo
Yesterday two of the most important companies in games and technology, Nintendo and Apple, held keynotes back to back. The Nintendo keynote at GDC primarily concerned the 3DS and filling ...
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Panasonic scraps Jungle handheld
"My inclination would be to say a system like the Jungle is a non-starter right out of the gate. Until they can show me otherwise I just don't think Panasonic has the ...
OPINION: The handheld battleground is drawn
It may have lost many men in the battle of 2010, but General Wii still stands tall on the battlefield that is taking place under the world's TVs. From the ...
Monster Hunter storms Japan
The commercial popularity of Capcom’s Monster Hunter series shows no sign of abating with news that the latest release in the series has got off to a tremendous start in ...
Panasonic enters portable games sector
Electronics giant Panasonic has announced a surprise return to the games sector with a brand new handheld called Jungle.
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Next Xbox 'could be a handheld'
Next-gen successors to Microsoft and Sony’s powerhouse consoles would benefit from no longer being tethered to the living room TV, the vice president of Epic Games has said.
90%+ of tweens play online games
A report entitled ‘Kids and Games: What Boys and Girls are Playing Today’ by M2 Research claims that 93 per cent of girls aged 8-11 play online games. For boys ...
Sony: Portable 3D is limited
Having thrown its full corporate weight behind the current home 3D drive, SCE boss Kaz Hirai has questioned the very viability or portable 3D.
Happy Birthday, PSP
The PlayStation Portable is celebrating its fifth birthday (in the US at least). Throughout its lifetime it has sold 17m units in the country.
Koller: We’re focusing on 3D in the home
With 3D gaming still in its infancy, Nintendo’s surprise announcement of the 3DS yesterday marks a surprise new direction for the technology – and it’s one that has failed to ...
iPhone eats up PSP and DS share
Apple’s digital distribution model makes it tough to track sales numbers for iPhone games, but a new report from Flurry says that the device’s share of the US market grew ...
PSP is a “useless waste of space”
In what surely amounts to something of a PR nightmare for all involved, Codemasters Studios’ VP Gavin Cheshire has labelled Sony’s PSP as “a bollocking useless waste of space”.
Square Enix sticking by PSP
Publisher Square Enix has voiced its support for Sony’s PSP and vowed to continue to release many of its major IP both on physical UMD and through Sony’s growing digital ...
Mixed fortunes for PSP
Sony’s PSP surged to the top of the weekly hardware charts in Japan this week, but Media Create’s official figures show that the picture is far from rosy for Sony’s ...
