What Jo21 said. including the "Lol"

nah i wouldent get it

i would buy 1 on launch day if they made one. everyone already knows if it does happen, halo would be the launch title. take halo 1 and update the graphics alittle and add online support to it. and boom a 1 million selling handheld in the states for sure. i know alot of ppl who would buy 1, i am hoping they do make and launch one, but i think it will be 1 year before they would launch their next xbox console.

Jokes apart, there's some truth too. And besides, MS still hasn't even decided whether an handheld could be bad or good for it, and solved this initial decision problem, there's another even bigger, what's the recipe for a successful handheld? Nintendo succeeded, and more than once too, competitors with products more powerful, in theory, failed, PSP isn't bad but it's more than a bit strange, as HW sales are very good, particularly for a first experiment, while SW sales aren as much satisfying, moreover UMD is nearly failed, but it didn't sink PSP with it, I guess Sony hasn't a clear idea about everything in this field, not even Nintendo fully groks this, although it always does well empirically, so MS could be almost totally clueless.

Seeing how badly PSP performed based on the amount of Support it had in the beginning, I doubt that the PSP 2 will be a real contender to the Hand held battle next gen...

I don't think they will enter the handheld market cause to make such a device, you need to be supported by japanese people and developpers ...

please no more handhelds i hate them¡¡¡.

Oh and don't forget amazing western games like Dementium and Moon (15 hour long FPS title which is longer then most console FPS titles lately) Lock's Quest and Viva Pianta (MS IP imagine that). is also very good.  Advance Wars and Bleach Dark Souls is very westernish even though it's a japanese developer.  Not to mention the many western developed racing titles like Grid and Diddy Kong Racing.  There's good support from all sides on DS just so many Japanese titles overshadow western titles, but there's no excuse for not being able to find something you like on the handheld, like Call of Duty on the DS is really amazing, it's got good graphics and world at war even has good online, CoD4 on DS has good local multiplayer but no online saddens me :(

Anyway on topic, MS probably won't make a handheld cause a lot of their IPs that get put on a handheld are going to the DS and it's an easy way to make money.

I think is easier to Nokia or Apple oficially enter the handheld race than Microsoft.

Sony ruined the movie part with the bad idea of a proprietary disc that doesn't offer to users perceivable advantages over standard mini-DVD's, and let's not consider the bad idea to think people would pay to see movies on a very small screen amounts worth the producers' effort, the movie part of the business, had it started asking a more reasonable price, would have been barely profitable without the burden of a proprietary format, but for a device that would want to do everything, and we know haw bad this ends usually, and considering that it was the first Sony handheld and it had to clash against the titan of handhelds, it didn't go so bad, right now it's approaching 44million units sold. PSP is doing quite good in HW sales, although SW sales are acceptable only because the user base is large enough to give decent numbers despite a very low attach rate, and movies sales are (well, more correctly, were) a disaster. But in the end, people buy them, Sony earns money from them, it's more than MS managed to do with Zune, and a lot more of all the past handhelds that defied Nintendo and died.