But it makes sense that someone should bring the Palm OS into the handheld gaming act.
Is there any room in the mobile market for an Android-based handheld gaming system?
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It appears that in phones and handheld gaming devices, big is the new little.
Nintendo will start selling a version of its 3DS handheld gaming console with bigger screens from July.
Nowhere is this truer than for handheld gaming devices that have steadily lost duration between charges over subsequent iterations.
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Nvidia announced its new Project Shield handheld gaming console at CES this week.
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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If a payment terminal could be forced into servitude as a crude handheld gaming device, what else could it be made to do?
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PlayMG, a new startup formed less than 60 days ago, has unveiled a brand-new, Android-powered handheld gaming device that is scheduled for release this November.
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Demand is also being driven by the proliferation of portable consumer electronic devices such as music players, digital cameras, video recorders, and handheld gaming consoles.
Until this week, Nintendo had dispatched so many competitors over the ten years of its virtual monopoly in the handheld gaming space that its reign seemed assured.
Nokia's move into the handheld gaming market, from an adjacent market which it dominates, is strongly reminiscent of Microsoft's decision to launch the Xbox console to challenge Sony.
What might reinvigorate interest in living-room and dedicated handheld gaming?
Mobile devices have eaten into the handheld gaming market, attracting millions of casual gamers who are not prepared to invest in bespoke gaming devices, but are still keen to dabble in gaming.
Sony is planning to launch a new handheld gaming device by the end of this year, which will act as a successor to its PlayStation Portable, the Japanese electronics giant has announced.
So ... it's not quite as sharp in the graphics department as some other tablets on the market, nor is it as pretty as its main handheld gaming competition, the PlayStation Vita.
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To many, the design seemed like a step backward after the elegant GBA SP, and the dual screens and stylus input seemed more like novelties than the revolution in handheld gaming Nintendo was promising.
So can Nintendo stay relevant in handheld gaming?
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Gamers who are traveling for the holidays will no doubt savor treats like the "God of War: Ghost of Sparta" PSP entertainment pack or the Nintendo DSi XL red bundle, which offer handheld gaming to go.
Meanwhile, though airy for a tablet at 560 grams (1.2 pounds), it's not exactly PS Vita or Nintendo 3DS XL territory -- but then a heavyweight contender could be exactly what handheld gaming needs.
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Also, this number leaves out handheld gaming, extremely popular among children and teens, and PC gaming, which boasts the massive timesucks of games like Team Fortress, Starcraft and Warcraft that surely would have skewed the average upward.
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.
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.
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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And Sony has begun slashing prices on its handheld Vita gaming system, starting in Japan, leading some to speculate that there could be mobile integration in the PS4.
Although gaming sales have been volatile this year (total U.S. sales of hardware, games and accessories decreased 14 percent during May in brick and mortar stores, following a strong April and relatively soft March), growth has been, for the most part, consistently strong in digital distribution, handheld device gaming applications, and peripherals.
Their game.com handheld, as the name suggests, attempted to bring Internet access and PDA functions to a gaming handheld.
When Nintendo released its now-popular handheld DS portable gaming system in 2004, lots of early reviews predicted it would fail.
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