Did Nintendo just Dreamcast the PSP2?

[joeorc]

richardhutnik said:

hunter_alien said:

Well the 3DS is trully more then what I was expecting. If Sony wants to have any chance in the handheld market they need to seriously step up the game. Im starting to get worried, that they might just abandon the portable line altogether and only focus on the PS3 :|

 

Interesting you say that, and that is going with "Step up your game" as their ad campaign slogan for the PSP.

In regards to all this, we need to check the price point on the 3DS before people can comment here.  I would say $200, but don't know.  We also don't have a price point either.  But, assuming Nintendo gets things to take off as they should, this is an issue for Sony.

The PSP is part of the Playstation brand.  Sony ending up being made irrelevant in the handheld market costs momentum for the Playstation brand as Sony's brand for gaming.  Them losing to Nintendo, and then being forced to drop out of the handheld market, is not a good place for Sony to be in.  Sony is not able to use the top dog bully position it had, with the PS2, and use it FUD customers regarding what Nintendo does in ANY area.  Nintendo then locks down the handheld market, with only Apple left.  And then in the home market, Sony has issues to.  It can say it is "futureproof", and the leader.  But all it seems like is that it is a high end product and not the top product.   And then, with the 3DS doing real well,  Sony doesn't even control the 3D area in the videogames.   Sony is then seen as too early to the market with everything.  Then we can talk about this being "Dreamcast".

how is it an issue for sony more than any other company..you cannot dreamcast something if they do not release it. this post is more about if sony would stay in the handheld market at all more than anything.

Sony sold 50 million plus system's that is more than the dreamcast ever sold.

so the problem for sony is quite simple. Move the playstation portable to the Smartphone arena

sony would not have to release a "dedicated game handheld" because frankly you only need one handheld anyway.

if the Smartphone can be used to play some great game's and the technology is already with dedicated gpu's in cellphone's why would you have to go into the "DEDICATED HANDHELD GAME SYSTEM MARKET" where the overwelming choice has been an most likely will still be Nintendo.

change the PSP's market would allow for it to compete with Nintendo indirectly instead of head on.

that's what the Iphone is exactly doing right now. by some people's opinion

"http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/03/sony-uxp-for-android/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: wired/index (Wired: Index 3 (Top Stories 2))

this recent partnership with Google is a stong indicator that's exactly what they are going to do.