Now that mobile devices are portable game consoles, new game studios such as Zynga have emerged as major players.
Counselors say the ranks are growing as teens get hooked on Web-enabled devices like cell phones and portable game consoles.
Its portable game systems outsell the competition 2 to 1, but failure in the console market isn't an option for Nintendo either.
Nintendo has sold more than 145 million units in the DS line since 2004, making it the bestselling portable game device in history.
Projected sales for TVs and cameras fell by 1 million units each, and portable game players by 3 million, as noted by Bloomberg.
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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HarperCollins, for instance, has sold hundreds of thousands of cartridges in Britain that let users read electronic versions of classic texts on Nintendo DS portable game consoles.
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Portable game consoles have traditionally have long life spans, enabling the vendors to build big consumer bases and churn out profitable software titles over a 5-7 year span.
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For 16 years Nintendo has OWNED the portable game space.
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Asahi in Japan offers the first word on how the 3DS achieves its 3D-ness by suggesting that the new portable game machine with feature a parallax barrier LCD from Sharp.
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.
The transition from one generation of consoles to the next is always painful, though this time around the launch of new portable game devices by Sony and Nintendo has helped to prop up software sales and mask the decline in sales of games for fixed consoles.
Google Play mobile games is only a tenth below the entire portable console game industry.
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He had generated an idea of using human-powered batteries for television or portable video game consoles.
When Nintendo launched the portable 3DS game console in North America last month, it broke company sales records.
They can thank strong sales of the Wii, the portable DS and game software.
The Wii U is an interesting point here because it is balancing expectations of a tablet, portable device and game controller all in one.
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The monster-collecting Pokemon craze of the late 1990s started as a series of titles for the company's Game Boy portable system and eventually sold in excess of 106 million units.
BRAVEN's ultra portable speakers truly are game changers.
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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.
The Wales boss was angered before last month's opening World Cup game against Azerbaijan as the removal of the portable pitch for a Madonna concert at the stadium left the playing surface bare in the week of the game, disrupting his training plans.
Many people have said that iPod and iPhone were game changers by changing the portable music and mobile phone category forever.
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This is the next marketplace target for portable consoles as kids cling to their Game Boys like pacifiers and casual gamers are satisfied with the cell phone gaming experience.
Take care if you happen to travel through downtown San Francisco this week: The sidewalks are full of people walking with their heads down, eyes locked on their smart phone, Nintendo DS or Sony PlayStation Portable, deeply engrossed in a video game and not necessarily watching where they are going.
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 system was designed by the team that thought up the Game Boy, but the machine was barely portable.
Game developers are pushing the very concept of portable gaming on tablets and smartphones at a breakneck rate thanks to quad-core processors such as NVIDIA's Tegra 3.
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