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Nintendo, Sony Start Handheld Gaming Battle At E3
An anonymous reader writes "There's a Wired News article up discussing the fight for handheld game console supremacy starting at next week's E3 Expo. According to Wired News, 'Nintendo, the biggest seller of video-game consoles 15 years ago, once again faces a tough street fight against Sony, the upstart that stole much of the video-game business with its PlayStation. This time, the fight is over handheld video-game machines, and if Nintendo loses, it could be in serious trouble.' It explains: 'Nintendo is expected to give peeks at its next-generation handheld system -- code-named the DS -- while Sony will release more information about its PSP. Both companies will be vying for the hearts and minds of gamers and -- more importantly -- software developers.' Who's gonna win?" Slashdot Games recently ran a related story that has developers and journalists analyzing the showdown to come.
Sony charge 25000$ for PSP SDK and god only know how much for license to produce game. So Sony probably will not overwhelm customers with numbers of titles on release. Nintendo already have GBA base, and if it would release free SDK and make it easy to get license it will attract a lot of small/indie developers. Of cause most of this games will be crap, but by sheer numbers there bound to be some gems among them. And numer of titels have strength in itself too.