Since its launch in 2004, the DS line has held the top spot in the hand held game market, selling twice as many units than the PlayStation Portable.

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With the launch of the Xbox in Japan, Microsoft will be taking on Sony's bestselling PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's hand-held Game Boy and its bigger GameCube, in their home markets.

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San Francisco (CNN) -- Sunday's debut of the Nintendo 3DS, a hand-held game system with a 3-D display that doesn't require special glasses, isn't just the culmination of several years of research and development for one product.

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He also developed a number of popular electronic toys, including the hand-held memory game SIMON.

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Nintendo sank into a loss the previous fiscal year largely because of price cuts for its hand-held 3DS game machine, which shows three-dimensional imagery without special glasses.

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Within the next 2 years the in-game hand held fan technology will likely be threefold what it is today in order to keep attracting fans to facilities.

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The best PMs are certainly product-obsessed, examining coffee mugs at meetings and wondering out loud how to design a more better-designed coffee cup or carefully dis-assembling a new hand-held video-game to see how it works.

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When games journalists are best friends with PR people and being flown all over the country for private events giving them a hand-held tour through a new game, it looks like the relationship is a bit too close.

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One area of the game in which Castres held the upper hand was the scrummage, but former Lions lock Jeremy Davidson must have been disappointed at their failure to capitalise.

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