Sony Debuts PSP To Challenge Nintendo
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Sony began selling the new PSP Playstation Portable yesterday in Japan. The company says it will ship 500,000 units of the console, which plays music, videos and games by the end of the year.
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Japan's Nintendo Co. Ltd. struck the first blow in what is set to be an all-out war with Sony Corp. for the lucrative handheld game console market, aggressively pricing its new dual-screen model at &#36;149.99 and setting its U.S. launch date for Nov. 21.
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Rival Sony began its worldwide assault yesterday by launching a new handheld console, PlayStation Portable, in game-crazy Japan. Sony aims to seek and destroy GameBoy and its maker Nintendo&#39;s $5billion hold
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SONY, the electronics and gaming giant, said its long-awaited PlayStation Portable (PSP), which can play movies, music and games, had virtually sold out on its home debut today.
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Sony Corp. unveiled its new PlayStation Portable in the United States for the first time Wednesday, signaling an intensifying battle with Nintendo Co. to rule the burgeoning handheld video game market.
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TOKYO - Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) will roll out in Japan a handheld video game system on Dec. 12 called PlayStation Portable (PSP), priced at Â¥19,800, or about $185.
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Sony's PlayStation is to challenge Microsoft's Xbox in its one undisputed area of dominance - the online world.
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Nintendo Co., the world&#39;s biggest maker of portable game consoles, begins selling its newest hand- held player today, accompanied by a $40 million advertising push aimed at taking customers away from Sony Corp.
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While Nintendo may be banking on a hot holiday season with the launch of the Nintendo DS hand-held game unit, Sony has set in motion a series of plans that could see them take another sizeable lead in the gaming market.
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In what&#39;s shaping up to be an all-out war with Nintendo, Sony went on the offensive for the holiday-shopping season Tuesday, announcing that it will release a smaller version of its PlayStation 2 console in the United States on Nov. 1.
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CULVER CITY, California  - Sony Corp. will launch  a slimmer model of its PlayStation Portable handheld game  player in September, the company said on Wednesday, in its  latest attempt to ignite demand for its game hardware and  compete better with Nintendo Co. Ltd.
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Junko Furusawa, left, and Daisuke Nakata, both PR staffs of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc., display how to compete racing game with Sony PlayStation Portable in Tokyo Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004.
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Sony upped the ante Wednesday in the looming handheld gaming war, giving its PlayStation Portable device a price and on-sale date likely to inspire fierce competition with Nintendo&#39;s DS.
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Nintendo, the reigning champ of portable gaming, has released its latest hardware: the Nintendo DS. The DS has gotten a head start on its upcoming competition - that would be Sony&#39;s
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Sony Corp  will launch a cheaper model of its PlayStation 3 in the United States, hoping to attract more buyers as it goes up against rival game consoles from Microsoft and Nintendo this holiday.
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Sony Corp.&#39;s PlayStation Portable, which goes on sale in Japan later this year and overseas next spring, boasts the superb image quality of its home-console counterpart.
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Sonyâs PlayStation console has been so popular that it feels strange that PSP is their first attempt at the handheld gaming market.