Exclusive: Panasonic Jumps Back Into Gaming With A New Handheld: The Jungle

Tuesday, 05 October 2010 01:58

Exclusive: Panasonic Jumps Back Into Gaming With A New Handheld: The Jungle

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With the iPhone and iPod Touch taking over bigger chunks of the portable gaming market each quarter and giants like Sony and Nintendo doing everything in their power to cling on to what they can, it seems pretty crazy to get into the portable gaming space right now. Well, someone call up the nut-house, because we’ve got a new contender: Panasonic.

Yep. Almost 15 years after their 3DO gaming console

(remember that?) suffered an early death, Panasonic is dipping their toes back into the gaming waters with the launch of a new Online Gaming-focused business segment called Panasonic Cloud Entertainment (or, as they call it, PCENT, which is an acronym I don’t think anyone on the product naming team tried reading aloud), with plans to launch at least one device — tentatively known as “The Jungle”.

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