Sony is stoked about the Sony NGP but Neil Young, the CEO of casual gaming firm ngmoco rather than the classic rocker, thinks it shouldn’t be. He’s dismissed the handheld at GDC saying it’ll be “dead on arrival” and will fail to compete with iPhone 4, iPad 2 and the growing power of Android (lucky Sony has the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play then).

Young says those powerful specs the Sony NGP is packing don’t matter but says the Nintendo 3DS has a brighter future because Nintendo has so many own-brand franchises to draw upon. You can read the interview at the link below. Let us know: is Young right? Is the Sony NGP a dead dinosaur even before it hatches in the wild?

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  • Chris

    In this case I think he's right. The PSP has never been the flagship of portable gaming that Sony envisaged it would be. My first generation PSP lasted a year before it went into a box full of PDA's and film camera's and other gadgets never to see the light of day again. No one could have predicted the rise of smart phones as a gaming platform and a PSP just can't compete with that. A lack of gaming franchises suitable for a portable device is definately another nail in the PSP's coffin. We were all impressed with Uncharted on a portable device but that type of gaming is best left for the big screen!

  • LiquidO

    Despite what people say, the PSP was a huge success considering it was Sony's first handheld, 70 million units is not bad at all. That's more than the Super Nintendo or any of the Nintendo home consoles besides the Wii.

    Considering what the PSP2 is offering (the graphics, touchscreen, dual analogue sticks) it will no doubt sell more units than its predecessor. Call of Duty alone is enough to guarantee huge sales.

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