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1. Nintendo Wii sales plummet 57 percent

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... PlayStation Portables (PSP) in the first quarter, compared to 1.6 million and 3.7 million, respectively, in the same period last year. "Sales in the game business decreased year-on-year as a result ...

2. Ubisoft blames Nintendo DS over weak sales

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... to be released in the second quarter of fiscal 2009-10: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Wii and PlayStation 2). Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox360, PS3, PSP and PC). Academy of ...

3. WWDC 2009: June 12-18 with possible Jobs keynote

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... touch. We should see double storage capacity, 3G HSPA support for "twice as fast" cellular data, and custom-designed GPUs and CPUs aimed to leapfrog portable gaming devices like Sony's PSP to position ...

4. The next iPhone looms on the horizon

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... of both Sony and PSP in the portable gaming arena, enabling game developers to create and port stunning games. And last but not least, the new iPhones will download data from cellular networks twice ...

5. Rolando rolls into the App Store

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... an inviting proposition, at least for those who have been paying $20, $30 or even $40 for Nintendo DS or PSP games. In addition, its digital over-the-air App Store distribution certainly beats the traditional ...

6. Microsoft’s Zune phone rumor back again, this time with Tegra

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... of such a device could outperform even Sony's PSP and position a Zune phone as the best mobile computing/communication/gaming device. The problem, of course, remains that such a product would anger many ...

7. Nintendo preps a new sub-$189 DS

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... Nintendo sold 518,300 DS devices in August of this year, up from 383,300 in August of 2007. The DS is also outselling the competing Sony PSP, which sold 253,000 units in August of this year, by a factor ...

8. 5 reasons why Apple should build its own iPhone SoC (and 5 why it won't last)

   (Opinion/Opinion Features)

   ... to the existing audio playback chips. Future iPhone will have killer graphics, no question about it. In fact, future iPhone will render Nintendo DS and Sony PSP obsolete and turn Apple into a key player ...

9. Playstation 3 to get movie downloads this summer

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... well as increasing game sales, however, helped Sony to cut the loss nearly in half from a year ago when the game unit (which includes PS2 and PSP as well as game sales as well) reported a loss of $2.3 ...

10. GPU transcodes four 1080p video files in real time

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... or Sony's PSP. Of course, hardware acceleration does not work without software and both ATI/AMD and Nvidia are relatively weak in this area. It is one side to demonstrate a cool technology, but you really ...

11. Sony reports dropping PS3 production cost

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... units so far. The PSP has become the most popular Sony game console during the year, selling 13.89 million devices. Sony has sold about 40.69 million PSPs to date. Total console shipments for FY2007 were ...

12. PS3 projected to push past Xbox 360 in March

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... the PS2 will outsell the Xbox 360 at 320,000 units. On the handheld side, the Wedbush Morgan analyst projected that the DS would reach 700,000 units with the PSP at 300,000 units. Pachter also commented ...

13. Updated Nintendo DS model expected at E3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... typically outsells the PSP by a margin of two-to-one, and continues to sell better than any of the home consoles. ...

14. PSP outsells all other consoles combined in Japan

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Last week was a blockbuster week for the PSP in Japan, as it sold more units than the Nintendo DS, Wii, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 combined.  During the week ending March 30, a total of 129,986 PSP ...

15. Inside Intel's ray tracing research

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... frames per second, this linear scaling would allow us to achieve 360 fps on a Sony PSP. If we go down to the screen of Nintendo DS, we would have almost 600 fps. Of course, we don't need 360 or 600 frames ...

16. Playstation division finally turns a profit, sells 5 million PS3

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... the third quarter of Sony's fiscal year, Sony sold 4.9 million PS3 units and 5.76 million PSPs.  It also sold 26 million PS3 games. In total, the Playstation business saw a profit of around $121 ...

17. Wrap-up: All stories and slideshows from CES 2008

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    ... press event, but said absolutely nothing about the PS3 and only mentioned the PSP in passing.   Solid state is the new black, Intel’s SSDs Solid state drives may ...

18. Flyvo portable WiMax gaming device heading for U.S. market

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Posbro, a Korean manufacturer of the Flyvo G100 portable game device today said that it will be establishing a “mobile WiMax online game business” in the United States. Las Vegas (NV) – ...

19. Nintendo DS game downloads to be powered by Wii

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... The DS itself does not have the ability to do this because it has limited Internet connectivity. Sony's rival PSP (Playstation Portable), on the other hand, has a complete Internet browser built-in ...

20. Sony mulling movie download service

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... business," said a Sony spokesperson in Japan. The Wall Street Journal reports that the content could be delivered directly to the PSP and Playstation 3 consoles, as well as its line of Bravia HDTVs, ...

21. Recap: Xbox 360 squeezed between the Wii and the PS3

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... Meanwhile, only three PS3 titles have appeared, and no PSP games have made the top 10 in the past nine months.  The Xbox 360, meanwhile, picked up 27 of those 90 spots, making it the winner. Curiously, ...

22. Rockstar holds off on Manhunt 2 US release

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... well as responsible marketing, both of which are essential to our business of making great entertainment," said Rockstar in a statement. The game was planned for the Wii, PS2, and PSP next month.  ...

23. PSP online features edge out DS

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    Opinion - In the past week, new services for both the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP have pumped up their online presence, making it a perfect time to take a second look at the two handhelds' Wi-Fi features. ...

24. DS Wi-Fi hits five million users

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... compatible library than its main rival, the PSP, but users still complain about restrictions that prevent voice chat and require mutual system registration before some games can be taken online. The overall ...

25. Playstation 3 loses $2.0 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... FY2007 decreased by 2.02 million units to 14.2 million, PSP sales declined by 5.7 million units to 8.36 million. Lower PS2 sales also resulted in a decrease of software sales: Sony said that 193 million ...

26. Opinion: Blu-ray not even close to winning format war

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... of my substantial laserdisc collection. We saw the exact same thing with Sony's proprietary PSP disc known as UMD.  Practically every top studio leaped onto that bandwagon, following a short-lived ...

27. PC trends 2007

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    Starting in June of every year, the PC landscape begins to get more exciting as vendors are releasing their new PC lines in that time frame. We have had a long dry run, largely because of the gap between ...

28. Comparing Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 execution: Focus makes the difference

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... (assuming I could find it) and, with the Sony, I'd stick with the PSP (arguably the best portable player and both more affordable and more available this year) until the PS3 matures a little more and drops ...

29. Red Hat faces big threats to business, stock price

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      Now even the big boys are getting in Red Hat's face, causing angst for a lot of shareholders of the small software company that focuses on Linux operating system. Now even the big boys are getting ...

30. iTV vs. Microsoft Media Center vs. PS3: The Big Battle of 2007

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... is positioned as a media powerhouse. Unfortunately, at least initially, it doesn't live up to that promise. It does have HDMI out for easy initial set up and it integrates well with the PSP providing a ...

31. Lik-Sang sued out of existence by Sony

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... because of the unlawful sale of Asian PSPs to European customers. The High Court of London found in favor of Sony. Previously, Sony had told GamesIndustry.biz that the lawsuit was not aimed at bringing ...

32. Nintendo DS expected to outship Sony PSP by as much as 30% this year

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sony's Playstation Portable (PSP) was the best-selling portable game console in 2005, but the Nintendo DS has turned the tables this year: According to market research firm In-Stat, the Nintendo may ship ...

33. E3 2006 in a nutshell

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... lends itself to the theorem about all PR being good PR), from games on mobile phones to the Nintendo DS and the PSP, portable gaming has vindicated its existence in the past year. With the big players ...

34. MotoGP coming to Playstation Portable

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... that you'll be able to play an entire season if you wish, or just a single race if the bus ride isn't all that long. There will also be ad hoc wireless multiplayer for up to eight fellow PSP racing fans. ...

35. Sony plays up PS2, PSP at press conference

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... promised that PS3 would be seamlessly integrated with the company's other gaming platforms, such as PS2 and PSP, with plenty of backward compatibility for games. Speaking of PSP, Hirai declared that the ...

36. Movielink, CinemaNow bring legal video downloads to the US

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... a home and requires the users to hook up a notebook (at least if the content is downloaded to a notebook) to a TV via an S-video cable. Movies cannot be streamed to other devices such as a PSP, transferred ...

37. British bus driver fired for playing PSP while driving

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    It's common knowledge that listening to a cellular phone while driving could impair your reflexes, but what about playing a Playstation Portable game? A British bus driver was recently fired for playing ...

38. Holiday video game sales could be well off target

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... at the NPD report appears to say Sony sold 2.5 million units instead. Not having met that goal, it may have just been a rumor, but Wal-Mart would account for 2 million unit sales of PSPs alone, the company ...

39. Sony announces six new titles for the PSP

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Sony starts off the new year with six new titles for its Playstation Portable (PSP) gaming system. All of the titles will be available by March and span a wide variety of genres, from semi-violent police ...

40. The best strategy to get an Xbox 360

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... the store early in the morning and our Best Buy source told us that the launch should be comparable to a previous gaming blockbuster, the Sony PSP. "For our Sony PSP launch, we still had some units at ...

41. Console video games post continued sales declines in October; lackluster titles a key factor

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... year with only the Game Boy Advance in the market, all portable units were sold for under $100," he remarked, "while this year you have the [Nintendo] DS and [Sony] PSP pulling up the average retail price ...

42. Sony releases PC multimedia transfer software for PSP

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... to and from PlayStation Portable. Complete with USB transfer hardware in the boxed edition, the package seeks to elevate the portable media experience for PSP to a level at least on par with that of Apple. ...

43. Not so much the "video iPod," but maybe smarter, more marketable, say analysts

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... video-dedicated playback device would have to have been much larger, like the Sony PSP, and thus no longer an iPod. "You have to make this perfect," said Wang. "I know Steve Jobs is trying to make every ...

44. Apple announces two video iPods

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... content. But even though the PSP is popular in the states, UMD movies haven't exactly taken off. Besides, do North American consumers really want small-screen movies? "There's got to be good premium content," ...

45. Demand for Sony's PSP outstrips supply

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

      Retailers are expecting the launch of Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) on September 1 to be an instant sellout because demand has already begun to outstrip supply. Retailers are expecting the ...

46. Sony seeks injunction against Chinese PSP exporter

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... European buyers unable to wait for the PSP's formal launch on 1 September. Lik-Sang denounced the lawsuit, filed with the Hong Kong High Court, as a "cynical attempt to disrupt the successful online business...gain ...

47. Nintendo to ship GBA SP earlier than expected?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    ... Nintendo's strongest entry into the gaming market. However, they have been directly challenged by Sony's upcoming entry, the PSP. Read the complete story. (webpronews.com)  ...

48. Sony launches portable games pad

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

      Sony has launched its first handheld games console, the PlayStation Portable (PSP), which it hopes will challenge Nintendo in the portable games market. Sony has launched its first handheld games ...

49. Intersil's New PWM Controllers for PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Intersil is now shipping a couple of new Endura pulse-width modulation (PWM) linear power system controllers. You can sync your PDA to your computer, but how about being able to slap it into ...