Google Play mobile games is only a tenth below the entire portable console game industry.
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Last week, Sony launched its crucially important new portable console, the PS Vita.
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Of course, Nintendo has fought and destroyed a horde of technologically superior portable console rivals from Lynx to WonderSwan.
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Part laptop, part tablet, part home console, and part portable console, the Razer Edge is the fruition of Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan's dream to create a "true" portable PC gaming machine.
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It all adds up to a homely piece of hardware that looks like something like a modded PSP crossed with some forgotten, knockoff portable console from the '80s -- one designed during a rubber surplus.
They say that Microsoft danced around questions about combining the Zune and the Xbox into some sort of portable gaming console.
However, it will have to convince consumers that they need a dedicated portable gaming console in addition to their other computing devices.
Demand for the portable games console - the PlayStation Vita - has also been weaker than expected, forcing Sony to cut sales forecasts.
After enjoying massive success in Europe, Gametel, a Bluetooth controller that transforms smartphones and tablets into a portable games console, is heading to America.
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That it can be used as a standalone tablet, as well as a portable game console, as well as a home game console is extremely appealing.
The portable game console will launch in North America and Europe in March 2011, but Iwata did not give the specific dates or pricing for those regions.
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When the Nintendo 3DS went on sale in North America on March 27, there was little doubt the portable gaming console would be a big seller.
Iwata said the portable gaming console, which gaming writers honored among the best at this June's Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California, will be released in the United States and Europe in March.
And weighing in at just two pounds, the Edge is dramatically lighter than Razer's other portable gaming machine, the Blade (which clocks in at a whopping 6.6 lbs.), making it the company's first actually portable game console.
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Like you'd expect, 99% of the stuff is total crap, but our pals over at Tiger Telematics have been issuing press releases for their new Gizmondo portable game console almost every day lately, often on the flimsiest of pretexts.
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The Gizmondo may have edged out the N-Gage as the portable game console everyone loves to hate on, but that isn't stopping Tiger Telematics from pushing ahead with their oft-delayed plans to introduce the new console here in the States.
When Nintendo launched the portable 3DS game console in North America last month, it broke company sales records.
Portable gaming and console gaming have historically been two different animals.
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While the Internet has held my hand through my adult life, my childhood was devoid of doodads (unless you count the portable Pac-Man console my brother and I used to fight over).
Sega was the first to re-enter the field with the Sega Nomad, a portable version of the Genesis console.
Worse still, Sony, which dominates the household-console market, has announced plans to launch its own handheld console, the PlayStation Portable, in 2004.
Talluri believes that smartphones and tablets will emerge as all-in-one entertainment devices, encompassing the qualities of several gaming console experiences in a portable package.
An optional Gamepad Controller turns the Razer Edge into a mobile console, offering an immersive, portable gaming experience.
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There's neither a new home console (Wii U) nor a portable one (PlayStation Vita) that relates to Microsoft SmartGlass effort.
The latter has done his fair share of portable machines, but his latest completed project takes console hacking to lofty new heights.
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While the portable market is thriving i disagree with an assesment that the console market is in major threat.
He also referenced the planned integration of its handheld and console divisions, intended to make software and apps more portable between devices.
However, as portable gaming devices have got more powerful these scaled down versions of console games feel like poor value for money.
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But in an effort to provide a portable gaming experience that was on par with that of a home console, Sony built a more expensive device.
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It had the leading game console at the time, it had a phenomenally successful portable gaming device, it had the most respected TVs in the market, its cameras were doing brisk business and it had a line of computers that were sufficient.
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