Ex-PlayStation boss recalls Nintendo employee's reaction to the PSP reveal: "You bastards"

While the phrase "console war" tends to conjure up images of, you know, consoles, don't think the battle between handhelds was any less contentious back in the day. The mid-'00s battle between Sony's PlayStation Portable and Nintendo's DS seems pretty one-sided in retrospect, but it certainly didn't seem that way at the time. Former PlayStation boss Shawn Layden certainly remembers how threatening his company's entry into the handheld market felt. 2003, '04, '05, something like that," Layden recalls in an interview with The Expansion Pass.