axumblade said:
gigantor21 said:
Dgc1808 said:
gigantor21 said:
Seriously. Sony MAKES smartphones and tablets. They really didn't see how a $250 device with memory that expensive wouldn't go over well? Even after Nintendo had to do their own price cut?
The Vita was designed for a handheld market that doesn't exist anymore. Even the 3DS, as well as it's doing, likely won't sell anywhere near as well as the DS.
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Different division of the company. Those two segments work completely independantly.
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So there's really no communication at all between the different segments, then? Find that hard to believe, considering how the UMD and Blu-Ray were pushed on past consoles and how the Xperia Play phone played PS1 titles. Plus upper management should be able to divine larger trends across different parts of the company.
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The restructuring took place after the PS3 and the PSP both launched. I could have sworn that Sony merged their video games and mobile department together but I'm certain the Vita was probably in in the early R&D stage when they did merge..Or I could be wrong about that part entirely. I know Sony Pictures is completely separate since they own Crackle (which interestingly enough offers exclusive content to the 360).
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AFAIK, you are correct. A few beautiful example of their lack of cooperation;
SONY Pictures owns Ghost Busters. They gave rights for the game to Atari rather than SCE.
SONY Pictures owns the Spider-Man films. They went to Activision for game development.
