Portable Exclusivity Must Die
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 05/24/11 at 06:49 PM CT
Sony has just announced a new ‘Remaster’ series of PlayStation Portable titles that will be ported to PS3 Blu-Ray with upgraded visuals and controls, while retaining cross-platform save data with their portable origins. Considering Sony’s difficulties in doing anything right this-gen, I am surprised by this incredibly sensible move: It’s time for portable exclusivity to die.
Handheld gaming originated with Nintendo (as so many things do) in their Game & Watch platform. These early handheld titles were pointless little timewasters with incredibly simple gameplay and no goal more complex than achieving a high score. With the advent of the smartphone, handheld gaming has come full-circle, with cheap (typically free or 99¢) little timewasters bringing in players by the droves and providing big profits for developers and publishers alike.
Yet somewhere in the middle of the story, things went awry. As Nintendo continued to push handhelds, they and their third-party …
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