• Mike

    I don’t know about the rest of you but to me handhelds are not something that will ever replace the console for my gaming. I use my phone to play stupid little games when I have nothing else to do, I’ve never even bought another handheld besides the DS for my kids. Serious gaming is meant to take place on your TV or PC, not on a handheld device…

  • Jazzmain

    I agree with Mike, while handhelds are fun for time killers at work or waiting for your girlfriend to finish up getting dolled up they are not a serious gaming unit. I want to sit down on my sofa with my surround sound and large television and get lost.

  • Trevor

    Not a chance that Sony is walking away from the PS3 unless it was a boardroom decision to completely leave that aspect of the market. I’ve never even been tempted to buy a hand-held. I prefer my gaming on my HDTV with my full surround sound system. The iPhone provides some decent gameplay, but will never compete with having a group of people over to play some Rock Band, or the close to realism feeling of playing COD with volume at 11 and the room dark except for the glow of the TV.

    The PS3 still has life, and that life will help the books. Sony likely wont include the kitchen sink in their next console, but unless they want to fade into complete irrelevance they will continue with consoles. It is still one area where there is limited (yet fierce) competition that keeps their names in the minds of consumers, not even camera’s have that exclusivity.

  • SmokeNMirrors

    I could only see such a thing happening if the NGP/PSP2 had an HDMI out jack and the horsepower to truly match the PS3, e.g. render at 1080p and had 3D support. Those are living room experiences that won’t go away. It would be sweet to have a device that could be un-docked and go on the road but that’s not the NGP.

  • God™

    That’s a wonderful message that they’re conveying; They’re basically saying, “we can only support one device at a time, so we’ll focus on the NGP before we ditch you a couple of years down the line when we need to focus on the PS4″.

    Seriously, aren’t they a large enough company that they can do two things at once? It’s the convergence/interoperability of their devices that will end up making or breaking them in the future (works well for Apple, and soon for Microsoft).

    Handhelds are great, but they don’t allow for side-by-side multiplayer gaming like standard consoles do, so they’ll never replace consoles entirely.

    I would have scrapped this NGP, and waited a little while longer. I’d create a device that is essentially an NGP (but a little bit faster and with more memory), but include a docking station type device, so you can take your console on the go with you. The dock would include things such as a co-processor for gaming at 1080p and a larger hard drive (for the larger downloaded games from the PSN (the ones that need a TV sized screen)) for when you game at home, but undock and take it with you when you want (with the smaller games that are formated for the smaller screen of the NGP coming along with you).

  • Yoyoyoy

    Is not that they can’t work on two tings at once, is just that, as stated in past reports,the next generation consoles and games are going to be very expensive.. If they release’em fast the almost anybody would be able to afford it. So why they just concentrate in the NGP while the prices of the NGC (next generation Consoles) calm down?

    They wont be releasing the ps4 for the next years, so just stop thinkiing about it if you have plenty of years ahead.

  • kingofgrills

    I really hope this is not true. At least in the US, there is no way handhelds will replace the home console. I can see this being the case in Japan and Asia, where space is limited. Most people spend their days riding on commuter trains, playing handhelds and cell phones.

    Cancelling the PS4 would kill Sony in the gaming market. While the PSP2 looks promising, Sony will always come in a distant second to Nintendo in the handheld market.

  • punisher0222

    psp2 is going to be awesome!!! It has games from ps3?? I want to play god of war 3 on the psp2 lol. The graphics will be epic.