Xbox boss Shane Kim has been speaking at this weeks Microsoft Gamers Day and voiced his opinions on a Microsoft Handheld console.
When asked whether the company wish they’d entered in to the handheld gamer market, currently dominated by Nintendo DS and Sony PSP, Kim is surprisingly pleased they didn’t try.
“I’m very happy we didn’t get into it, because launching a handheld platform is like launching another Xbox 360. You have to be fully committed, as an organisation, from a resource standpoint, to doing that. Frankly we’ve got a lot on our plate with Xbox 360 and Xbox Live. We don’t have any experience in that space. Our content assets don’t naturally lend themselves to driving success in that particular market, so we’re happy to let Sony and Nintendo slog it out.”
Kim does go on to speak about the importance of other mobile markets to Microsoft. When the company announced, earlier this year, that it would be bringing game software to its Zune portable music player, fans got excited because it meant you could, theoretically, have games that would be cross-platform between PC, Xbox 360 and Zune.
“I do think mobile is probably the more important platform in the future, and the number of Windows mobile devices and hardware that’s capable of running Windows mobile in the future is really a compelling opportunity, and one where we don’t have to worry about launching a new hardware platform too,” says Kim.
It looks that Microsoft have clear objectives for the future, which is re-assuring for mobile gamers. Currently Zune is only available in the
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