There have been rumors from all the way back in the Xbox 1 day about Microsoft "jumping in" the hand held market. Microsoft is sitting right now with the online power house that is the Xbox360, that is there main gaming platform focus, Games for Windows 2nd. Sony has the juggernaut that is the PS3"Play play Beyond", the still alive PS2, Sexy PSP300 & soon to come PSPGo. Nintendo is chilling & telling everyone "Wii would like to play", Nintendo Dsi is printing money, Dslite is still being sold. So after summing up all tree 1st party publishers there one thing missing Microsoft hand held. So the question is why have they op out off this market for so long? The key in my eye's has to be timing, you can have the best, newest, & sexy look gadget on the block but if the industry is not in the right industry economic conditions then you’re just going flop just as the Dreamcast. This is just NOT the right time for them to step in a pond that so deep.  Nintendo dominates the hand held market selling the same system with just new color or making it smaller, Nintendo’s hold the hand held market go way beyond just us gamers. From 5 year old boys to 70 years old ladies on the bus we seen it all, the simple fact is Nintendo Ds can be appealing to people off any age.  And there is Sony they may not be on top but the PSP sure are still selling, unlike the Ds the PSP is focus on a more teen to mid 20’s as its players, just watch any PSP T.V Ad & look who is in them.  Sony does its best to show much they believe PSP is a good vale for the cost, adding Tv tuner, skyp, music play back, PSN store and more. So as hand held this will going to the tech groups out there, plus not to forget the big line up they have coming after e3. The soon to be release PSPGo is once again going for high en shoppers with cash to spend.  Just quit note the iPhone is making waves in low cost mobile gaming seen. So where does this leave Microsoft? Well at a standstill, they going to fold there hand for now & wait for a better hand to be dealt form the deck. As I said before timing is key. A few things would have to happen in this consol cycle for Microsoft to show their hand,  Nintendo will have had over killed remaking the Ds, at some point people going to see that they do not need over 3 different DS and by this time well over 120M off them sold. Sony on the other hand are just going kick them self’s when they should be lowering cost, they chose make the PSPGo a $249.99 cost this will be there down fall in the long run after the 1st wave of tech new tech fans come and buy the Go, the everyday man/woman is not going shell out the 249.99 cost for this system. There will be at a standstill if they lower the go down to $200 then the psp300 will have to drop as well. Shoppers like myself will wait it out till they final decide the to drop the cost. So now is the time Microsoft can final show what they have at a conference, while Sony fights with cost problems and Nintendo realize you can’t expect people buy the same system 4 times, Microsoft can show off its high powered  hand held system the like of no has seen before. Now planting the seeds in the minds off customer that a high graphics, faster Cpu, great online head held is on the way. Now setting up a all in move for their attempt of dominance of the Market.

On today;s show we talked about how activision is losing their mind with guitar hero and the soon to be game hitting the selves DJ hero, we talk about MMORPGs what games are cool and why some of them makes no sense and don't get why so many people like them, we talk about the grand daady of them all BLAZBLUE how this 2d high def fighter gave us the good times and then we look back at the old cartoon shows that were taken off the air those shows will be miss. 

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