Welcome to the Jungle.
Nintendo's stranglehold on the handheld gaming arena has remained in place since the early '90s, when it released the world-beating Game Boy console. Since then, the company has been at the forefront of the portable market, but it hasn't gone totally challenging in that time; while Sega, NEC, Bandai and SNK all tried to unseat the Kyoto-based company during the '90s and '00s, Sony would come closest to dethroning Nintendo with its incredibly popular PSP – but even with sales of over 80 million units worldwide, it couldn't catch the DS, which sold almost twice that number with over 150 million consoles sold.
Nevertheless, the success of the PSP – and the arrival of the "smart device" era – emboldened tech giant Panasonic to throw its hat into the ring. In 2010, it announced the Jungle, a clamshell-style handheld system which looked like a small laptop but was intended as a portable platform for MMO titles; indeed, Battlestar Galactica Online was one of the first games confirmed for the device (Stellar Dawn and RuneScape are the only other known confirmed titles).
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Nintendo's stranglehold on the handheld gaming arena has remained in place since the early '90s, when it released the world-beating Game Boy console. Since then, the company has been at the forefront of the portable market, but it hasn't gone totally challenging in that time; while Sega, NEC, Bandai and SNK all tried to unseat the Kyoto-based company during the '90s and '00s, Sony would come closest to dethroning Nintendo with its incredibly popular PSP – but even with sales of over 80 million units worldwide, it couldn't catch the DS, which sold almost twice that number with over 150 million consoles sold.
Nevertheless, the success of the PSP – and the arrival of the "smart device" era – emboldened tech giant Panasonic to throw its hat into the ring. In 2010, it announced the Jungle, a clamshell-style handheld system which looked like a small laptop but was intended as a portable platform for MMO titles; indeed, Battlestar Galactica Online was one of the first games confirmed for the device (Stellar Dawn and RuneScape are the only other known confirmed titles).
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