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Microsoft won't sell a mobile gaming system
WITH THE HUGE SUCCESS of the Xbox, you might expect that Microsoft would have a portable gaming system in the works. But there are no plans at the Vole to bring out a Nintendo DS or Sony PSP rival, unless you count Windows Phone 7.
“This is our mobile platform for games,” said senior global director of PC and mobile gaming Kevin Unangst to Kotaku. “The same people who make the Halo game, the same development folks, work on this, this is our mobile console.”
So gamers looking for a fix of Microsoft gaming will have to make do with Iphone style touchscreen thrills, rather than a more genuine gaming experience. Windows Phone 7 gamers are already well supported with Xbox Live enabled devices and some major support from developers like Electronic Arts.
Titles like Infinity Blade on the Iphone have shown that mobile phones are capable of running powerful games graphically comparable to bigger gaming systems. But the Unreal Engine is something that hasn’t been ported to Windows Phone 7 yet.
This year we will be expecting more powerful Iphone and Android games, a Nintendo 3DS and a Playstation phone. Microsoft, in terms of portable gaming, has a job to do to catch up, let alone keep up. µ
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I can see little point in putting kids games on a very expensive smartphone myself, and you can develop more suitable games for people slightly older, that should work on basic hardware, or can be bundles with some controller like the music games are for consoles, some button/joy pad attachment should be cheap to fabricate when needed by some gamecompany.
Makes perfect sense really. Hand held gaming is suffering badly from phones now, to a lesser degree so are digital cameras. Nearly all the smaller portable bits of kit we used to carry around is now integrated with our phone.
Sony have pretty much given up on the PSP, and thus moved it to the Xperia Play.
Nintendo is the last of the handheld gaming companies, and it's fighting against the juggernaut of phones also...and is frankly failing when they price things like the 3DS at the £250+ mark. Sub £150 and hand helds might have a chance, but even there it's not going to survive as a market for much longer.
As for MS, makes perfect sense to bring mobile gaming to WinMo7 (and I am not using the insanely long name MS calls it). They have the tie in's with the Xbox so from a game production point of view, can see MS pushing for some cross MS platform push if only from MSGS. Will it get the PSP App from Sony like Android? doubt it. Which also means it will likely not get the game support that Android will get from having the market share.
Android really needs a games development push of some kinda. Be it a Xbox style system or something which Sony could provide through the PSP games. Guess we can but see where things go with that though.