Up until that point, consumers were used to spending less on handheld game machines.
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Wright says the stock is a strong buy and that he likes its market share in the handheld game market.
Soul Sacrifice is my number one most anticipated handheld game of 2013.
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In addition to the Surface-style smartphone that Microsoft is rumored to be developing, the company is also thought to be creating its first handheld game console.
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That could pose a threat to the temporary monopoly Nintendo was poised to get on portable 3-D gaming when its handheld game system launches in March.
The company will be showcasing a new stand-alone device -- the portable Nintendo 3DS. The handheld game is expected to feature glasses-free 3-D, which has hardcore gamers wondering just what 3-D on a small screen will look like.
Milton Bradley, a company then better known for Hungry Hungry Hippos than video games, has the distinction of being the first to introduce a handheld video game console with interchangeable cartridges with its Microvision.
The new handheld Legend of Zelda 3DS game is truly a Link to the Past.
Their game.com handheld, as the name suggests, attempted to bring Internet access and PDA functions to a gaming handheld.
The folks on the Neo Geo forum wasted no time experimenting, and soon found that the handheld's Bios and game ROMs can be successfully swapped for new games or custom loaders.
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Kinect motion technology could help Microsoft compete effectively against Nintendo Wii that uses a physical controller to play a game while the Kinect allows users to play game without a handheld device.
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Whether it's soccer, a family night board game, or a handheld electronic device-playing challenges us to overcome long odds, tell compelling stories, and work with or against one another.
NVIDIA's Tegra 4 powered handheld looks a lot like a typical game console, but it isn't.
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The original Game Boy, in its various incarnations, is the most successful video game system ever -- handheld or otherwise.
Project SHIELD gives us the cutting-edge ability to bring a huge free-to-play PC game like Hawken to the handheld gaming audience.
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When you think about it, the last two generations of handheld gaming (chiefly Nintendo DS and starting with Game Boy Advance) got flooded with more casual gamers than any of its predecessors, like Game Boy and Game Boy Color.
Because of the differences in technology and controls we have got used to handheld games being quirky or scaled down versions of the console game.
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Sure, you can still snag a handheld device from Sony or Nintendo, but today's video game industry is far more diverse.
Nintendo's already dipped its toes into motion-sensing handheld gaming with the gyro-equipped WarioWare: Twisted for the Game Boy Advance, but it looks like the company looks has even grander plans to let you make a fool of yourself in public, at least if a recent patent application is any indication.
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It will have a feature called remote play, in which you run the game on the PlayStation, which then sends the video to your handheld PlayStation Vita device over the Internet so you can play remotely.
And while Nokia and Tapwave may be setting themselves up for the handheld gaming battle of the year, both will still have to contend with Nintendo 's Game Boy devices, which have been around in some form or another since the late 1980s.
The Japanese video game company reported a total of 1.2 million units sold, including both the 3DS handheld system and the Wii, which is more than we can say for any other old systems or handhelds on the market today.
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It is a marvelous combination of Palm handheld, with all the productivity-enhancing benefits that implies, plus all the time-wasting fun of a Game Boy.
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