There's a huge difference between playing mp3s (essentially) and portable gaming. Anyone can make an mp3 player. Apple made the iPod hardware all pretty and slick, but it takes much more than packaging to win in gaming. You absolutely need developers to make games for you. Sony and Nintendo have these relationships all sewn up with exclusives or platform bias. Apple doesn't have deep enough pockets to make this happen. End of story: Apple can't kill the PSP.
However, I could see Apple doing a portable movie player to compete with UMD on the PSP. Just like music, anyone can play a movie file.
Please. Apple couldn't even eat the scraps off the Sony PSP table. Doesn't matter how many stupid U2 commercials they throw behind it. Portable (or otherwise!) gaming takes developers, which Apple doesn't have and never has. Hence, the perpetually sorry state of gaming on the mac.
The only company that could touch the PSP is Nintendo and even that is in question, due to their Sega-esque "3 headed monster" portable offerings of the Advance, DS, and advance successor.
Microsoft could buy their way in, but they want your living room, not your backpack....but I digress.
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There's a huge difference between playing mp3s (essentially) and portable gaming. Anyone can make an mp3 player. Apple made the iPod hardware all pretty and slick, but it takes much more than packaging to win in gaming. You absolutely need developers to make games for you. Sony and Nintendo have these relationships all sewn up with exclusives or platform bias. Apple doesn't have deep enough pockets to make this happen. End of story: Apple can't kill the PSP. However, I could see Apple doing a portable movie player to compete with UMD on the PSP. Just like music, anyone can play a movie file.
Please. Apple couldn't even eat the scraps off the Sony PSP table. Doesn't matter how many stupid U2 commercials they throw behind it. Portable (or otherwise!) gaming takes developers, which Apple doesn't have and never has. Hence, the perpetually sorry state of gaming on the mac.
The only company that could touch the PSP is Nintendo and even that is in question, due to their Sega-esque "3 headed monster" portable offerings of the Advance, DS, and advance successor.
Microsoft could buy their way in, but they want your living room, not your backpack....but I digress.