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Originally Posted by shindullin
You'd better be Sony because they already have serious developer clout, lots of hardware and software engineers and a pre-existing user/customer base. Or you'd better be Microsoft with so much money from Windows and Office that you can afford hundreds of millions of dollars in the name of future profits, just like they're doing for PPC, just like they're doing for XBox, just like they're doing for .net, and just like they might do some day for mobile gaming if no-one steps up to the plate to challenge PSP and PSP eventually annihilates nintendo's portable gaming devices. If Sony actually turns the PSP into the mobile entertainment device it hints at being able to become, M$ will have no choice but to challenge it. Otherwise, Bill's dream of world media center domination will never come to full fruition. Xcube anyone? 0X
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I still see the PSP becoming like a psuedo-Clie type device as well. I like the new firmware update, the built-in web browser isn't bad (based on Netfront), a touch sluggish, but it has a decent amount of features.
In Japan, Sony did partner up with a company to provide downloadable videos directly to the PSP, kind of neat. I wonder if something similar will happen in the US.
http://www.p-tv.jp/
As for the news article, I thought that the Zodiac was a great device on paper, just that it was hampered by the limitations of the POS.