Regardless of having mobile gaming on your cell or on a dedicated handheld unit, mobile gaming is here to stay, period. Both Nintendo and Sony are going full force into the mobile market and it looks like Nintendo’s head start might just pay off for them thanks to the Gameboy’s popularity.

Next-generation portable gaming devices like the Sony PSP and Nintendo GameBoy DS have gotten a lot of attention, and rightly so. They offer immense improvements over previous efforts in nearly every area, and both have Wi-Fi access built in to allow for multiplayer gaming: the PSP will be able to connect to the Internet, but the DS will initially only support P2P connections. Making interactivity an integral part of video games is one of the most significant paradigm shifts to ever hit the industry, and clearly Sony and Nintendo are keyed in to that — but why offer multiplayer capabilities, then tie users to within a short distance of each other or an access point?