State Of The Handheld Industry 2005

Jack writes "The State of the Handheld Industry 2005 is back. The yearly feature includes roundtables with journalists and handheld developers. A report by GCAdvanced indicates that this year it is a 4-day feature at Nintendo Insider. The developer roundtable is already up. It talks about not only the GBA, DS, and PSP, but the Gizmondo, N-Gage, and mobile phone gaming. GCAdvanced also reports there is an interview with Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan. Although she seems to dodge some questions, it gives new information about the Game Boy Micro faceplates and Nintendo DS online with the Wi-Fi connection." To provide some first hand opinions, The Game Chair has a piece on the meaning behind handheld gaming.

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The state is bleak

[rAiNsT0rm]

It truly is bleak right now with these two lack-luster offerings (I'm not even dignifying the Ngage) The PSP and DS are flops in my eyes, and aparently a lot of others' because the GBA is still outselling them. No one wants an expensive, delicate portable game system... especially one with so few games available of any quality or substance as the PSP and DS. Lumines, Nintendogs, Electroplankton, etc. are just not killer apps.

Honestly, these two systems have been out for some time now with no major titles to carry them and none in the foreseeable future. A true shame.