Archive for December, 2004
PSP Pre-orders Stateside
Sometimes I sit on a story for a while until I forget about it, as is the case here. Luckily, I stumbled upon it again and thought I’d pass it along. There may be a few more like this today. Our pal at GadgetMadness have stumbled upon a willing EB employee who went through the [...]
Merry Christmas!
Short and Sweet: We at Portagame hope you all have a Merry Christmas today! Hope you were able to talk to Santa and he was able to fulfill all those DS and PSP orders…Seasons Greetings!
Nintendo DS Defects
A poster named matt made a good point the other day in his reply here on Portagame. He wondered “where are all the DS defects?” Meaning that we all pick on the PSP, but we also know that Nintendo is no sacred cow, so where’s the scoop? Well were here to bring it to you. [...]
Sony PSP Defects Reported
Saw this a week or so ago but didn’t have time to post it. Looks like some unexpected bugs are popping up in the Sony PSP. You can check out Gamesarefun.com who have a complete round-up of the defects people are reporting including
Analog nubs not just not working, but actually falling off.
PSP is turned on, [...]
Geek.com Gets a Peek
Check out this little mention of our little friend Gizmondo. Looks like the Nerds over at Geek.com got to spend a little face time with it at M$ annual conference Möbius 2004. Here is the excerpt:
I was able to play with a Gizmondo device that was brought to Möbius. It is like a Tapwave [...]
Nintendo brews own official GBA Movie Player, DS too.
So Nintendo, not the American Nintendo but the Japanese Nintendo, is starting to really impress with it’s progressive moves. It sees a hot third party product like the GBA Movie Player that plays movies from a compact flash card and decides it can up it by making an official first party GBA movie player that [...]
What Nintendo Worry?
Altough the Nintendo DS is set to crush the PSP as far as sales, it looks like Nintendo really want to hammer those nails in the coffin. Check this article out from our friends across the pond. Looks like Nintendo plans to ship an add-on module that provides music and video playback, the company [...]
GBA Movie Player Updated!
For those who bought a GBA Movie Player from Lik-Sang, there is a bit of news for you to know. There is a firmware update available for it now that fixes the picture glitch and adds multi-language support for the text reader. This update is E14 and upgrades the internal firmware to 1.70.
It can be [...]
Official Nintendo release announcements
The list that fresh DS owners have been eagerly anticipating comes up a bit shy. Hopefully Nintendo plans to further the list for the first few months, as DS enthusiasts have always hoped for.
Catch Touch Yoshi - January 27th, 2005 (Japan)
Wario Ware: Touched - February 14th, 2005
Pokemon Dash - March 14th, 2005
Yoshis [...]
PSP Shortage in Japan
It appears that Sony have gone the way of the PS2 when it comes to the new PSP release. A major shortage is to be expected in Japan already, possibly being followed by an American and European shortage. Sony is currently making claims of “manufacturing problems”, and thus - December 12th in Japan [...]
