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Sony is not ruling out the use of 3D technology for PlayStation small-screen devices such as NGP, the company has said. Yet the firm told Develop that its current strategy for the PSP successor is to build a pure gaming device”. Mick Hocking, the director of Sony WorldWide Studios’ 3D …

Marc Vaughan on making Football Manager for the palm of your hand

With 3DS just weeks away, NGP on the horizon, and continued growth in iPad and mobile, 2011 is shaping up to be a transformative year for portable games. But that means retailers will have to face up to some tough facts of life. These platforms are proving to be the …

At the time of writing you can’t speak to anyone in the industry without touching on 3DS. Everyone has an opinion. People want to discuss the price, the launch line-up, or the quality of last week’s presentation – but not so much the device’s core USP. Perhaps it’s easy to …

Everyone is talking about Nintendo’s 3DS and Sony’s PSP2 – but Microsoft hopes it too will play a major role in the battle of the handhelds. The platform holder claims its three-screen strategy will be key to its success this year, as it promotes Xbox Live and other gaming brands …

Sony’s new physical format has the potential to change the face of the pre-owned market. Earlier this morning, the platform holder confirmed that the flash-based card for its upcoming Next Generation Portable will store the full software titles plus add-on game content” at the device’s big unveiling. Tying downloadable content …

How the future handheld will pan out nobody can say for now, but there’s one thing we can say for sure – the NGP will change the technical power expected of handhelds in the future. "When PSP first launched in 2005 in North America it changed the way people thought …

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 West, swelled by year-on-year gains in American followers, the Xbox 360 continues to wear down Wii’s lead. From the East, …

Though the words ‘PSP’ and ‘two’ are yet to emerge from the lips of Sony, SCEE president Andrew House has told MCV of his company’s future plans for innovation in the handheld space. We demonstrated with PS2 that with the right value proposition, the right long-term attention and the right …

Though it’s now a wholly-owned Microsoft studio, UK developer Rare has hinted that it may yet return to rival platforms for future handheld projects. Banjo-3DSie confirmed!” the Rare blog reads. Although by confirmed I do mean 100 per cent utterly speculative. We haven’t done much in the handheld ‘space’ since …