Blackhacker

Sony is going though some stuff right now, with a new CEO, and problems moving over priced AV & PC hardware. One bright spot for Sony has always been gaming aka The Sony Playstation. Sony is FINALLY going to try to extend it game console dominance into the portable area. Portable gaming has been owned for more than a decade by Nintendo and it’s Game Boy. But now Portable Sony Playstation is here .. almost here anyway. Walt Mossberg from WSJ has a review.

Next week, Sony will release in the U.S. a flashy new portable audio and video device that some believe could mark the start of a resurgence for the beleaguered Japanese electronics and entertainment giant. The $250 Playstation Portable, or PSP, already a hit in Japan, could become Sony’s first iconic portable, personal product of the digital era — Sony’s equivalent of Apple Computer’s iPod.

Mossberg found issues with the music/video playback & PC integration features. But Mossberg being outside the core demographic for his product doesn’t understand this shot across the bow of the Nintendo GBA. The other features are just value added features to justify the $250 price tag. Don’t know if it will work. We’ll see.

Update:
A more comprehensive review of the PSP is at engaget. I won’t summarize it here ’cause its way long but it might prove more useful to hard core gamers than Mossberg.