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...pluck, the PlayStation 2 still has an overwhelming hold on the $25 billion global video-game market: 68% at last count, to Microsoft's 17%; Nintendo has 15%, according to DFC Intelligence, a market-research firm. (See box, following page.) Microsoft doesn't come to the table with a handheld device like Sony's PSP or the Nintendo DS. It doesn't have the in-house multimedia expertise Sony has, or Nintendo's big-time kids' franchises like Mario and Pokémon. All three companies will be showing off their demos at this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo...
...predictions that it would exit the TV-top gaming business. The company, whose GameCube is running third in market share, plans to launch a new machine (code-named Revolution) next spring. It may have voice-recognition, wi-fi and touch-screen controls similar to the technology in its newest handheld, the DS. Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's president, has criticized the ballooning money spent on game and console development. Unfortunately, it's a bit late for that. --By Jim Frederick/Tokyo
...sitting in his armored humvee at the gate of a U.S. military compound in Baghdad, preparing to head out onto Haifa Street, a haven for insurgents and one of the most dangerous districts in Baghdad. Johnson isn't fully certain where he's heading, so he reaches for a handheld radio slung from his body armor and clicks the hand mike. "Colonel, is everybody going to Gator Base?" A voice crackles back: "Yes." It's a routine exchange, save for one thing: the voice of Johnson's convoy commander belongs not to an American but to Colonel Mohammed Faiq Raouf...
...will have multiple electronic devices. The digitization of content is allowing all those electronic devices to be connected and share information. Add to that the large number of Asians gaining purchasing power, and arguably the tech industry has perhaps the best outlook of any large industry. Cell-phone and handheld consumer electronics are--and will continue to be--the primary drivers of electronic growth...
...easily trumps all its competitions as the most sophisticated, integrated, attractive and all-around "neat-o" handheld multimedia device on the market. Though currently best used for games and movies, with the addition of few amenities - a better music interface, text messaging and a web browser, to name a few - it could even surpass the iPod as the must-have, status symbol gadget for adults...