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Sony NGP no threat: Nintendo chief

Kicking the tires: Visitors try out the Nintendo 3DS at a prelaunch event at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba in September. The game machine goes on sale in Japan for 25,000 yen in February. | YOSHIAKI MIURA PHOTO

The Associated Press

Jan 29, 2011

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said Friday that rival Sony was taking a different tack from his company and so he remains upbeat about his 3-D portable game machine going on sale next month.

Iwata was responding to a question from an analyst about the possible threat from Sony Corp.'s successor to the PlayStation Portable, code-named NGP, or "next generation portable," announced Thursday.

"We are more focused on drawing newcomers to gaming and appealing to a wide range of people," Iwata said at a Tokyo hotel. "What we do won't change because of what another company is doing."

Sony NGP no threat: Nintendo chief

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