0 aReturn After aMonth- Recent Mobile Gaming News

Apple and Sony

Hey everyone- I'm back after a month's hiatus. Matthew Townsend's blog post concluding his greatest RPG list should be along with in the next few days (fingers are crossed). We have some major news in the portable gaming world to talk about. First up, we have the acclaimed Resident Evil series from Kojima making its way over to the iPhone (and iPod Touch) App stores. This We'll get back to Apple later when we talk about the PSP and its supposed war with the PSP. PSP2 may end up looking like the PSP 4000 concepts floating around online. Apparently, Eurogamer in Spain claims to have seen a prototype of the PSP2. It is claimed to feature a quad-core processor similar to the original Xbox in graphic potential. It also supposedly runs DX 10 (riiight) and OpenGL 2.0 (maybe?). We can only hope they're right, but we still have no clue about analog sticks.

Unfortunately, we can assume that Sony won’t be releasing a dual-analog PSP any time soon (much to my chagrin), mostly in part because they do not want people going out and by the "Lite" or "portable version" of the PS3 for 200 or so instead of 400. That sucks. That means Remote Play will forever be handicapped.

Background: I’ve owned a Slim PS2, 2 PSPs (1000 and 2000, screw the 3000 and its messed up screen) and 1 PS3.

Releasing the PSPgo was possibly the most ridiculous marketing idea ever, up there with the Macbook Air. Who wants that? There are no advantages to the system sans digital download. It costs more and you get a smaller screen, and sliding screens break all the time…

If they in fact want to compete with Apple, then they simply do not understand Apple’s marketing technique. Any tech geek knows Apple is releasing new iPods every fall, and rumors are that the new iPod touch is going to be way different than the old one. Sony is therefore competing with past products in about two months time, and not staying ahead of the curve- just like you mentioned.

So much potential, but Sony’s too greedy.

No comment on the PSPhone, because it's too stupid for word. How could a company brand new to the iPhone competitors market compete with the iPhone if not even big names in the industry couldn't do it? Verizon failed, Google failed, etc. I'm not defending the greatness of the iPhone,

I'm just saying that a PSPhone wouldn't stand a chance. NGage, anyone?

And on the iPod Touch, apparently the general consensus about the iPod Touch and its successor to be revealed this fall is that the new Touch will be quite large, more like a small tablet PC than anything else. Whether or not any of that is true remains to be seen, but it would be cool... and maybe someday, we'll have a full sized touch to play this:

R.U.S.E. Trailer

For future reference, always check out (this site, of course) your favorite game review site (IGN, agamebag, etc.), and then cross-reference the score a game got with either metacritic.com or gamerankings.com. For game media, check out gametrailers.com. And for game information (i.e. release dates and the like), usually best to check out gamefaqs.com.