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Sony have been in the gaming industry for almost 7 years now, but even so they’re still newbies, With only 2 consoles made and no experience whatsoever with portable gaming they’d had to work hard for their handheld to be a success. They’ve never done it, don’t know much about it and the closest they’ve been to it is the PS1 with LCD screen which come on ain’t portable at all!! Every now and again we hear that Sony are snooping around the handheld market and I can’t help wonder what Sony may release, a cartridge based system? cd based? 32-bit? 64bit? no one knows.
There’s no question that Nintendo rule supreme with their series of gameboy’s, they were always the people’s choice even when the Game Gear was actually a better system so what chance do Sony have? Sony are very innovative and create all sorts of terrific hardware, the triniton wide TV, the betamax VCR (better system to VHS), the first transistor radio and the list goes on, they created the PS1 and PS2 didn’t they? so what’s the say their portable won’t be as grand and successful as all these??
If Sony were to release a portable machine it would most probably be twice the power of the GBA but work in such a better way that performance wise would be a revolutionary, not because they’d do it better than nintendo but because technology is moving on all the time, even since the GBA’s release and I can't see them using cartridges with such limitations but something much better.
I’ve thought of many ideas for the Sony handheld such as running old PS1 games actually on the machine or downloading them from your console but I think the best idea I’ve ever thought of is for them to use their own invention “Mini Discs” good innit? These things hold bags of information (as well as sound) and offer all the benefits of CDs/DVDs such as FMV,CD soundtracks and many things on the plus side. They tolerate the odd knock about, fit in your pocket and can’t get scratched. Just imagine a system more powerful than the GBA, no dodgy screen from cutting development costs, no expensive software due to cartridges and if the hardware was similar or even exact to the PS1 it would give easy access for developers to release all those playstation classics, Just not with a £34.99 price tag as Nintendo have got away with for so many years.
I see an analog stick being added instead of the D-pad or maybe a stripped down version of the entire PS pad, you never know. I see many developers such as Namco, Square, Rockstar, Konami, Capcom, EA and even Sega jumping on the opportunity of a Sony handheld because of the wide audience they’ll obtain, heck I’d buy one, wouldn’t you??
If Sony played their cards right they’d give Nintendo a real run for their money or even kick them out of the market altogether like Nintendo did with the Wonderswan. Square could release they’re Snes classics exclusively to the machine and pretty much every developer working on the GBA that’s not connected with nintendo would have a field day.
What are you waiting for Sony??
RES
There’s no question that Nintendo rule supreme with their series of gameboy’s, they were always the people’s choice even when the Game Gear was actually a better system so what chance do Sony have? Sony are very innovative and create all sorts of terrific hardware, the triniton wide TV, the betamax VCR (better system to VHS), the first transistor radio and the list goes on, they created the PS1 and PS2 didn’t they? so what’s the say their portable won’t be as grand and successful as all these??
If Sony were to release a portable machine it would most probably be twice the power of the GBA but work in such a better way that performance wise would be a revolutionary, not because they’d do it better than nintendo but because technology is moving on all the time, even since the GBA’s release and I can't see them using cartridges with such limitations but something much better.
I’ve thought of many ideas for the Sony handheld such as running old PS1 games actually on the machine or downloading them from your console but I think the best idea I’ve ever thought of is for them to use their own invention “Mini Discs” good innit? These things hold bags of information (as well as sound) and offer all the benefits of CDs/DVDs such as FMV,CD soundtracks and many things on the plus side. They tolerate the odd knock about, fit in your pocket and can’t get scratched. Just imagine a system more powerful than the GBA, no dodgy screen from cutting development costs, no expensive software due to cartridges and if the hardware was similar or even exact to the PS1 it would give easy access for developers to release all those playstation classics, Just not with a £34.99 price tag as Nintendo have got away with for so many years.
I see an analog stick being added instead of the D-pad or maybe a stripped down version of the entire PS pad, you never know. I see many developers such as Namco, Square, Rockstar, Konami, Capcom, EA and even Sega jumping on the opportunity of a Sony handheld because of the wide audience they’ll obtain, heck I’d buy one, wouldn’t you??
If Sony played their cards right they’d give Nintendo a real run for their money or even kick them out of the market altogether like Nintendo did with the Wonderswan. Square could release they’re Snes classics exclusively to the machine and pretty much every developer working on the GBA that’s not connected with nintendo would have a field day.
What are you waiting for Sony??
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Mini-discs are all good and well, but the loading times would be mad. I think its a safe bet that they woudnt use Mini-discs. But you dont need somethim that holds that large amount of data. Best way of running a portable system is with carts becasue of the quicker loading times. A portable sytem has to be quick, that is how it is kept fun, it would become boring very quick with any loading time what-so-ever.
Sony have said they dont want to be entering the hand-held market at the moment due to the poor quality of the screen. But maybe that is just a dig at the GBA screen, which is far from perfect...
I dunno If sony would completly knock Ninty out of the Market, after all, Ninty have dominated with the Gameboy for well over 10 years now. Even crushing Sega's Game gear.
But it would be nice to see Sony enter the Market, hopefully it would lead to the prices of games coming down, although GBA prices are rumoured to be coming down in price V.soon. But if you shop around you can find them for cheaper, I bought Super Mario advance 2( which aint even out here yet) on import for £24.
Sony have said they dont want to be entering the hand-held market at the moment due to the poor quality of the screen. But maybe that is just a dig at the GBA screen, which is far from perfect...
I dunno If sony would completly knock Ninty out of the Market, after all, Ninty have dominated with the Gameboy for well over 10 years now. Even crushing Sega's Game gear.
But it would be nice to see Sony enter the Market, hopefully it would lead to the prices of games coming down, although GBA prices are rumoured to be coming down in price V.soon. But if you shop around you can find them for cheaper, I bought Super Mario advance 2( which aint even out here yet) on import for £24.
I would love to see sony bring out a handheld console as long as they can get some good support from it. on the other hand is nintendo and they are the experts in handheld gaming in my view, it would take a lot to beat them and i'm sure sony have looked into this already and come to the conclusion that for now that market is nintendo's, but you never know in a few years we could see a portable psone, well i can only dream..:)
Good post!
Good post!
Sony have been in the gaming industry for almost 7 years now, but even so they’re still newbies, With only 2 consoles made and no experience whatsoever with portable gaming they’d had to work hard for their handheld to be a success. They’ve never done it, don’t know much about it and the closest they’ve been to it is the PS1 with LCD screen which come on ain’t portable at all!! Every now and again we hear that Sony are snooping around the handheld market and I can’t help wonder what Sony may release, a cartridge based system? cd based? 32-bit? 64bit? no one knows.
There’s no question that Nintendo rule supreme with their series of gameboy’s, they were always the people’s choice even when the Game Gear was actually a better system so what chance do Sony have? Sony are very innovative and create all sorts of terrific hardware, the triniton wide TV, the betamax VCR (better system to VHS), the first transistor radio and the list goes on, they created the PS1 and PS2 didn’t they? so what’s the say their portable won’t be as grand and successful as all these??
If Sony were to release a portable machine it would most probably be twice the power of the GBA but work in such a better way that performance wise would be a revolutionary, not because they’d do it better than nintendo but because technology is moving on all the time, even since the GBA’s release and I can't see them using cartridges with such limitations but something much better.
I’ve thought of many ideas for the Sony handheld such as running old PS1 games actually on the machine or downloading them from your console but I think the best idea I’ve ever thought of is for them to use their own invention “Mini Discs” good innit? These things hold bags of information (as well as sound) and offer all the benefits of CDs/DVDs such as FMV,CD soundtracks and many things on the plus side. They tolerate the odd knock about, fit in your pocket and can’t get scratched. Just imagine a system more powerful than the GBA, no dodgy screen from cutting development costs, no expensive software due to cartridges and if the hardware was similar or even exact to the PS1 it would give easy access for developers to release all those playstation classics, Just not with a £34.99 price tag as Nintendo have got away with for so many years.
I see an analog stick being added instead of the D-pad or maybe a stripped down version of the entire PS pad, you never know. I see many developers such as Namco, Square, Rockstar, Konami, Capcom, EA and even Sega jumping on the opportunity of a Sony handheld because of the wide audience they’ll obtain, heck I’d buy one, wouldn’t you??
If Sony played their cards right they’d give Nintendo a real run for their money or even kick them out of the market altogether like Nintendo did with the Wonderswan. Square could release they’re Snes classics exclusively to the machine and pretty much every developer working on the GBA that’s not connected with nintendo would have a field day.
What are you waiting for Sony??
RES
There’s no question that Nintendo rule supreme with their series of gameboy’s, they were always the people’s choice even when the Game Gear was actually a better system so what chance do Sony have? Sony are very innovative and create all sorts of terrific hardware, the triniton wide TV, the betamax VCR (better system to VHS), the first transistor radio and the list goes on, they created the PS1 and PS2 didn’t they? so what’s the say their portable won’t be as grand and successful as all these??
If Sony were to release a portable machine it would most probably be twice the power of the GBA but work in such a better way that performance wise would be a revolutionary, not because they’d do it better than nintendo but because technology is moving on all the time, even since the GBA’s release and I can't see them using cartridges with such limitations but something much better.
I’ve thought of many ideas for the Sony handheld such as running old PS1 games actually on the machine or downloading them from your console but I think the best idea I’ve ever thought of is for them to use their own invention “Mini Discs” good innit? These things hold bags of information (as well as sound) and offer all the benefits of CDs/DVDs such as FMV,CD soundtracks and many things on the plus side. They tolerate the odd knock about, fit in your pocket and can’t get scratched. Just imagine a system more powerful than the GBA, no dodgy screen from cutting development costs, no expensive software due to cartridges and if the hardware was similar or even exact to the PS1 it would give easy access for developers to release all those playstation classics, Just not with a £34.99 price tag as Nintendo have got away with for so many years.
I see an analog stick being added instead of the D-pad or maybe a stripped down version of the entire PS pad, you never know. I see many developers such as Namco, Square, Rockstar, Konami, Capcom, EA and even Sega jumping on the opportunity of a Sony handheld because of the wide audience they’ll obtain, heck I’d buy one, wouldn’t you??
If Sony played their cards right they’d give Nintendo a real run for their money or even kick them out of the market altogether like Nintendo did with the Wonderswan. Square could release they’re Snes classics exclusively to the machine and pretty much every developer working on the GBA that’s not connected with nintendo would have a field day.
What are you waiting for Sony??
RES
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