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Reminder: Question Of The Week On Third Handheld

Gamasutra is issuing a reminder for interested professionals to comment on our latest "Question Of The Week", discussing whether there can ever be a third major competito...

Simon Carless, Blogger

January 16, 2006

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Gamasutra is issuing a reminder for interested professionals to comment on our latest "Question Of The Week", discussing whether there can ever be a third major competitor to the two main handheld video game hardware companies. The question, which can be answered at the official Question Of The Week page until January 17, is: "What hardware capabilities and software would be needed for a third company to create a competitive rival to the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP, and which companies might be capable of doing so? Should they try?" As with the previous questions, the best responses will be compiled into an article to be published on the site, and users can either respond publically, with their name and company specifically cited, or anonymize their answers if they wish.

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Simon Carless

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Simon Carless is the founder of the GameDiscoverCo agency and creator of the popular GameDiscoverCo game discoverability newsletter. He consults with a number of PC/console publishers and developers, and was previously most known for his role helping to shape the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Conference for many years.

He is also an investor and advisor to UK indie game publisher No More Robots (Descenders, Hypnospace Outlaw), a previous publisher and editor-in-chief at both Gamasutra and Game Developer magazine, and sits on the board of the Video Game History Foundation.

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