Remedy 'investigating' 3DS, thinks Sony/Nintendo need to reinvent traditional handhelds if they want to compete

A portion of an IndustryGamers interview with Aki “AJ” Järvilehto, EVP at Remedy…

IG: What are your thoughts on the 3DS and forthcoming NGP from Sony. Are those platforms you will support?

AJ: Right now we’re evaluating different alternatives. 3DS and NGP are interesting platforms, but they’re very, very different from iOS. I don’t think that the right approach would be to take an iOS game and just port it over to them. Rather you’d want to create games for these platforms which is designed to take advantage of the unique capabilities of the platform.

IG: Given that smartphones and tablets iterate their hardware so quickly and have gotten enormously powerful, do you think traditional handhelds and consoles will be in trouble?

AJ: Many smartphones and tablets offer mind blowing value to gamers. Right now you can buy tons and tons of fun on iOS with the price of a single handheld console game. Heck, you can get tons of fun for free with advertising based concepts. So I do think the traditional handheld consoles will need to reinvent themselves if they want to compete.