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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.
"Did you read what I said... you simply stated exactly what I originally said way back in the original post that was moded "0, flamebait.""
Umm... you said nothing about either console's performance in Japan. You also claimed that there are no good games in the "forseeable future", when clearly there are plenty of games coming up for the DS, and maybe for the PSP, if you have the patience to search through the hordes of mediocre UMD movies on that list. Ugh, not so much for the PSP, I suppose. Only one game release per month in July and August? So scratch what I said about the PSP, but the DS has a great lineup for the summer and fall.
"TFA was about the CURRENT state of handhelds, and the current state is bleak."
The CURRENT state of handhelds extends to Japan as well, and as I pointed out earlier, the DS is doing just fine in the land of the rising sun. If I knew enough Japanese (or had enough cash) to import Nintendogs, Band Bros, Trace Memory, and Electroplankton, I would be occupied for the rest of the summer.