If you were hoping to get their hands on Panasonic's jungle, you need to settle for something else.
Panasonic chose to discontinue his efforts on handheld gaming, announced today the Reuters. Apparently, the company announced it had "decided to suspend further development due to changes in the market and in our strategic direction," he told Reuters.
The jungle handheld was first revealed at the end of last year. The device was intended to compete with the Nintendo DS and Sony's PlayStation Portable. However, Panasonic has had an idea a little different with the jungle. Rather than allow developers to create titles and have the players to buy in-store, the jungle had to play only games online games and massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Panasonic said at the time who believed he was doing something unique in the market for portable gaming.
"We know that other companies out there are traditional handheld game", Panasonic said in an e-mail in November. "We are doing something very different."
But the Panasonic device with a clamshell design, and included a keyboard and touch pad, it was facing the same competition last year as this year.
The Nintendo 3DS, which launched (and subsequently sold out) in Japan over the weekend, has two screens and the ability for players to play titles in 3D without special glasses. Will be available in the United States for $ 249 on 27 March. And at the end of the year, Sony plans to refresh its lineup of portable-game with next-generation handset, which promises to PlayStation 3-like graphics and dual thumbsticks.
In a nutshell, those new products could provide more than could the jungle. And Panasonic, with his recognition of the "changes in the market," seemed to understand pretty clearly.
Now that the jungle was apparently clear, we can not say what the future looks like for Panasonic Cloud Entertainment Co. This Division was established as a subsidiary of Panasonic, when the project of the jungle before being hunted.
Panasonic has not immediately responded to the request of CNET for the comment.
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