{"id":1805,"date":"2009-10-27T06:44:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T10:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/27\/is-portable-gaming-going-the-way-of-the-dinosaur\/"},"modified":"2010-02-27T14:22:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:22:48","slug":"is-portable-gaming-going-the-way-of-the-dinosaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/27\/is-portable-gaming-going-the-way-of-the-dinosaur\/","title":{"rendered":"Is portable gaming going the way of the dinosaur?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will simple (and much cheaper) games available on the iPhone\/iTouch eventually kill off portable gaming as we know it today?  Will systems such as the PSP become a thing of the past?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ps3center.net\/article\/316\/1\/psp-and-portable-gaming-becoming-a-dying-breed\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.ps3center.net\/article\/316\/1\/psp-and-portable-gaming-becoming-a-dying-breed\/', 'PS3Center');\" target=\"new\">PS3Center<\/a> has an interesting article on this topic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now here is the point of this article, what does Sony absolutely need to worry about in order to stay in this game? Firstly, make it easier for developers to make games for the PSP Go. A lot of developers are flocking towards the iPhone, because it\u2019s so simple and easy to make money off of. Secondly, make sure to pay attention and listen to the fans when the time comes for PSP 2. We definitely need two joysticks, touch screen is almost a must, tilting the PSP via SixAxis of some sort is also very much needed, but to top things off it needs to stay portable like the Go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course Nintendo is Nintendo; there will always be a GameBoy\/DS type platform.  Mario and company will live on forever.  As for the rest, I wonder how long Sony will be able to maintain its current model.  I have written often about how f\u2019ed-up their decision was to do give a discount for games available via digital distribution.  I thought that was going to be the hallmark of the PSPGo.  Little did I realize that Sony would not see the light.  If Sony is going to continue to find itself in the portable gaming market, they do have to make some changes, but before even considering a PSP2 they need to get their pricing model in line with gamers ever changing expectations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will simple (and much cheaper) games available on the iPhone\/iTouch eventually kill off portable gaming as we know it today? Will systems such as the PSP become a thing of the past? PS3Center has an interesting article on this topic. Now here is the point of this article, what does Sony absolutely need to worry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/10\/27\/is-portable-gaming-going-the-way-of-the-dinosaur\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is portable gaming going the way of the dinosaur?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,51],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ds","tag-psp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}