Nintendo plans to answer back also at E3, the game industry's annual trade show held in Los Angeles, by taking the wraps off a new handheld of its own that the Kyoto-based company says is unlike any gaming device ever made.
Lofty expectations -- Sony has dubbed the PlayStation Portable (PSP) as "the Walkman for the 21st Century" that can play games, movies and music -- have inflated the hype for the PSP and Nintendo's new machine, codenamed "DS."


