PSP and Nintendo DS Get Some Serious Competition from iPhone

All of you have probably heard something about the iPhone or whatever they will call this Apple thingy. Leaving all the legal woes aside, this will probably turn out to be some serious competition for all existing gadgets and gizmos, because it will cover almost every entertainment area out there.

Everybody is talking about it, including Newsweek's blogger N'Gai Croal. He doesn't see the iPhone as some serious competition for the PSP and the DS: "The iPhone isn't a direct challenger to Sony's portable gaming ambitions--that would be the wildly popular Nintendo DS--but it most certainly is a threat to Sony's mobile media and communication ambitions. After all, the iPod has iTunes (with music, movies, TV and games); while the PSP has the Playstation Network (for PS2 games that can run on the PSP's emulator and...nothing else right now--more than two years after its launch.) ". You may agree with him or you may not.

Some people don't buy the DS because it is a dedicated gaming platform. It is a gaming platform that happens to have media capabilities and the iPhone, a phone with media capabilities that happens to have games. Not that long ago, I was looking for a device that will allow me to play games, but at the same time, I wanted something that I could use to listen to music. I thought of buying a PSP, I thought of the Nintendo DS but finally, I got an iPod. But the iPod doesn't cost US$ 599 (that's the announced retail price for the iPhone)...