Some of the coolest ideas come from companies creating portable games and systems, where incredible features compensate for a lack of console power.

Case in point, glasses free 3D from Nintendo, touch screen and tilt gaming from Apple, and most recently, a rear touch pad from Sony for PlayStation Vita.

Bottom line, you cannot experience these sorts of things on a PlayStation 3.

That said, we've also seen a fair amount of duds, horrible ideas that had us shaking our heads.

On that note, behold the most bizarre decisions in portable gaming history.

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Durkin explained that the portable gaming market is too crowded right now and that there’s too much change happening. “I’m not sure I would want to be launching a dedicated portable device right now into that market,” Durkin said. “I think the DS – if you look at the 3DS, certainly versus people’s expectation’s it’s not been as successful as people would have thought. So that’s a very crowded market and a very, very red ocean right now with a lot of change happening. So I’m not sure it’s [a good idea] … You only have a certain number of bets you can make as a company and you have to decide what you want to put your wood behind and I’m just not sure that that’s a place that...

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