The Handheld War

The Escapist has an editorial up talking about the war currently raging in the trenches...and not the console war, for once. The new handhelds are duking it out for position, and he makes some interesting predictions. From the article: "Sony's stumble will clear the way for Nokia's N-Gage powered smartphones to be the #2 platform in handheld gaming. I see it developing into a PC-like platform. Think of it like this: Everybody has a PC. Everybody uses their PC for work and web. Some people also use it for gaming - enough people to make the PC, as a platform, the second biggest; it's the same concept with the smartphone."

Comments

As if the N-Gage comment didn't throw me off...

[sH4RD]

...this had me really going: "It's the same reason US cars are better than Japanese cars: We've been doing it longer."

What a great joke site, that's the funniest thing I've seen all day...oh...wait...that's not a joke? Oh...sad...

Re:As if the N-Gage comment didn't throw me off...

[Reorax]

Yeah, it's definitely a joke. Everyone knows 360 is TWO orders of magnitude bigger than 3.

Horrible misuse of statistics

[Andy_R]

There are 40 N-Gage games in the shops and only 32 PSP ones, therefore the N-Gage is better than the PSP. The same logic also shows that Snake is a better game than Half-Life, and ants are more intelligent than people*

* which in the case of the autuor of this article might actually be true.

Penny-Arcade

[tprime]

If you want a much better (and funnier) view on where gaming has been and is going, read JiveMagazine.com's interview with Penny-Arcade's Gabe and Tycho. The author of the Jive article doesn't keep referring to himself in the third person. Max Steele reminds me of the Simpsons where Homer changed his name to Max Power because it sounded cooler.