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chapset on 02 May 2009

maybe that's what they are hidding



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Roma on 02 May 2009

About the same size as a 360 controller ;)

You get it? Oh well...

I don’t know not that big for me though




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Jeronimo66 on 02 May 2009

It would be a shock to me and would be huge xbox goodness on the road.



Ajescent on 02 May 2009

I think the world would end at that exact moment in time.



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infamous8 on 03 May 2009

I doubt it.



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deadt0m on 03 May 2009

It would be a huge calamity, to say the least.



puffy on 03 May 2009

The portable space isn't big enough to support 3 big portable gaming devices.. It'd be like the PS2 gen, I don't think it'd work out and I also don't think Microsoft want to have to worry about a portable gaming system on top of the 360



 

Nickelbackro on 03 May 2009

MS is just starting to get profits from their game division, somehow i doubt they want to sink more money into a portable, especially when they don't see the DS as a threat to Windows, which is why they starting fighting Sony in the first place.



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Jereel Hunter on 03 May 2009
puffy said:
The portable space isn't big enough to support 3 big portable gaming devices.. It'd be like the PS2 gen, I don't think it'd work out and I also don't think Microsoft want to have to worry about a portable gaming system on top of the 360
Current DS sales: 102.16M
Current PSP sales:   46.83M 

So a hair under 150M, with over 500k selling a week isn't big enough to support 3?
I'd say all MS has to do is make sure they profit off of the hardware, and it's a worthy investment to build the Xbox brand. I mean, the portable could easily be made to play any arcade game, and be able to DL movies and shows from Xbox live... Oh, and check this out - the current PSP, released like 4-5 years ago has a 333mhz CPU... how hard would it be to put  700mhz and 256mb of ram into a portable these days? Give the Xbox Mini (or whatever its called) the ability to play Xbox classics games... maybe give it a USB connector that lets your PC/360 transfer xbox games onto it's internal HD (or DL those too from Live). This opens up a vast market for old games which would be almost pure profit... and give a starting VAST library of awesome games to a portable for a fraction of the cost of even what portable games normally cost. Heck, giving MS the chance to resell all the classic Xbox games, maybe they wouldn't need to make money on the hardware after all. I'm not a fan of portables, but I'd buy one with those options.
Oh man, playing Halo:CE over wireless...  on a handheld... mmm...