Despite the all the advertisements and anticipation, it has been a fairly quiet month for the Sony NGP. The majority of press buzz has been focused on the release of the iPad 2 and 3DS, so another PSP-styled device has been met with dividing opinions. Ngmoco and other social game centric groups have dismissed the NGP in light of the competing iOS mobile gaming devices.
Neil Young, CEO for Ngmoco said the NGP was “dead on arrival” and the PSP was already finished. According to Neil, it is incredibly difficult to compete with an application store (iOS) that holds numerous options where the average price is only $1.20. In addition, there a tens of thousands of free editions and trials that are very high quality. Neil Young thinks that Sony will not be able to compete with that type of availability.
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If true, hopefully a fully fledged next gen console and not some unnecessary mid gen refresh system.
It could be that rumored Xbox portable, who knows
Could be the refresh console perhaps? I doubt it'll be the new console. Might be the portable rumored device.
Regardless the fact we're talking about new hardware already is absolutely pathetic. Barely any current gen stuff out and the stuff that is out or coming is at 30 fps or doesn't, doesn't look current gen and what have you.
All we're doing is chasing power and not creating the games to harness said power.
Worse generation so far easily.
It was reliably leaked just a month ago that MS hadn't signed contracts for next gen till literally weeks ago- the same leakers that correctly leaked that hi fi rush and pentiment and sea of thieves were going to ps5. So this is very very very unlikely- if not impossible. Also it's way too early....
From the Supervision to the Steam Deck, the vast history of handheld console gaming is always worth celebrating.
A modded PSP is awesome, I used to play games like the original Marvel vs Capcom and even the original Doom on it.
I don't care. I'm buying it.
So... Ngmoco. They make games for touchscreen mobile devices, not gaming handhelds.
I wonder if Neil knows that the best selling games on the PSP (GTA: LCS, etc.) outgrossed the best selling games on the App store by about a 20-to-1 margin, and that the average gross income of a PSP game is like 30x as much as the average iOS game, yet only costs about 10x as much to develop? Or that there are nearly as many PSPs in the world as there are iPod touch? That there are more DSes in the world than iPod touch and iPhones combined?
This guy's statement has "personal agenda" written all over it. He wants gaming handhelds to go away, because he thinks it'll help his business.
I'm just hoping that the doesn't abandon older style gaming like the PS3 and 360 seem to of have.
this is an old article that's being rehash.
already discuss weeks ago.
The NGP will not be dead on arrival, everybody that's seen it has fallen in love with it. Right now, Im playing my 3DS as I eagerly await my new handheld to accompany it :)