Xbox To Go Portable in 2007/08
May 31st, 2006 by Darren Stevens in Business
Analysts from The Diffusion Group are predicting that Microsoft will enter the portable gaming market by the end of 2007, with a portable Xbox game system/media player. The portable market is expected to reach $3 Billion annually by 2008, with only Nintendo and Sony playing along. They think that would seem unrealistic if Microsoft didn’t try and get a cut from that pie. But would it make sense for Microsoft to do that? The Xbox and Xbox360 have lost Billions, and to try and fight Nintendo (and Sony for that matter) in the handheld market could cost them Billions as well. The DS outsells the Xbox360 almost everywhere now, even the PS2, PSP, GameCube and GameBoy Micro outsold Xbox360 in Japan the recent months.
Tags: Business
May 3rd, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Japan doesn’t matter to me and billions hardley means anything to microsoft there just happy there doing GREAT in the race!
October 31st, 2007 at 2:43 am
I think loads of people would by the portable xbox, I mean imagine playing Halo!! while sitting on the bus or on long journys in the car or on the plane or whenever you freecin fell like it!! and who gives a crap about japan!!
November 21st, 2007 at 5:54 pm
The Portable xbox is a great idea. Just think of how xbox could beat the psp
November 21st, 2007 at 9:16 pm
I really like the design, I hope someone can crack it. If they do, I’ll buy it.
November 24th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Well I think its a great idea as well there going portable I mean it had to happen sometime of course itll mostly come down to game titles and graphics everything else will be the same
November 26th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Halo on the Nintendo DS? It could have been, if the deals had worked out. A major publisher began negociations with license holder Microsoft for the game to happen, and contracted a known game developer to produced a spec demo of a version of Halo for the Nintendo DS. The demo was made, the game was (according to those who played it) appropriately accurate to the Halo experience on Nintendo’s little handheld, and the talks were active in making the game happen … and then, it was no more. Due to issues regarding the license, Halo DS was never fully produced.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
There is a Halo DS video out there that shows the actual game. It was based off the Goldeneye engine and looked really fun.
December 1st, 2007 at 8:30 pm
why do you even put a picture if you dont know how the portable xbox is going to look, if they make it of course. Whoever wrote this idiotic article should be punched right in the face, then burned, and at last the ashes should be flushed down the fuckin toilet.
December 11th, 2007 at 5:13 am
how much is it
December 13th, 2007 at 2:38 am
dint the 360 sell alot in the first few days and i meen alot ? i dont like ps2 ps3 that much but psp is awesome if they bring out handheld ill have to give it a try but atm i think sony owns the handheld marketwith nintendo at is side.
January 5th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
I think the xbox handheld is a great idea. It needs a flashy design, good graphics and a media player. Could you just imagine when your being driven home or to an airport playing Gears of War,dead rising or oblivion? I think it would need the gamerscore points and achievements aswell.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
i love it i want to marry it
February 16th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
wen come the xbox portable they sais i t came be in 2007/08 but he along not come we can not buy de xbox pleas we want information and how mutch is it
February 19th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
it better not look anything like the pcture above because the way it would be held could prove to be uncomfortable and why is there only one joystick,and a rather tiny one at that.how do you expect to play xbox’s extensive first person shooter game formats with only one joystick,would you take away the ability to aim at targets??i dont think so!
March 9th, 2008 at 7:00 am
i would never think that microsoft could make enny thing smaal anoth to count as a portable.and they dont have enny of bills monny to splash out eny more
May 5th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
GAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
GB Micro sold more than XBOX!! lmfao!!! omfg that is the best!!
seriously though, microsoft where never made for gaming, let alone hardware..
they should stick to their AMI computers lmfao!!
we all remember the days of that dont we?
greenscreens and 2mb HDD memeory HAHA
LMFAO!!
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May 5th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
ah now..jim, tbf they do hav the money, thy hav millions.. wher as bill gates has trillions upon billions.. but tbh thy still suck XD
but thy are still rich
n CEO’d by the richest man in teh world…
but thn agen thy r GY! XD
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May 5th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Nintendo completely dominates the hand held market. The reason for this is simply the nintendo library. It is so vast - Nintendo has been re-releasing classics like crazy on the DS and even on the GBA they did it. Sony has some decent games they bring out on the PSP, but what does the xbox have? I have no interest in playing Ninja Gaiden on the go, give me a classic rpg instead.
May 21st, 2008 at 9:12 pm
i agree with all of the people that said who cares about japan. I know a japanese kid at my school and he a hole. Japanese people are different in i like xbox way more than play station and nintendo is a game system you use more when ur younger. they are just now trying to get into the rated M class and it is not working for them.
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take that ya squinty eyed people!!