| jcp234 said: This will never happen. Sony does not have the brand recognition or appeal that Apple currently has in mobile technology. |
What? Over fifty million PSP sales and many hundreds of millions of Walkman-branded device sales over three decades suggest otherwise. Sony have huge brand recognition for both IPs.
99% of gamers do not shun handheld gaming platforms to buy mobile phones to play three thousand different games where you tilt the device to stop a ball falling down a hole or steer a car. People buy a PSP to play games. People buy an iPhone to make calls and surf the WWW - most of those who wish to game as well, and have chosen the iPhone over the PSP and DS, are the type who are looking for the aforementioned, casual, play-on-the-bus-to-work crap. Hardly a threat to the PSP with it's existing and announced library. And no, Metal Gear Touch is not an example of how iPhone games are going hardcore as it proved the platform sucks for anything more than "don't let your ball fall down a hole".
It makes me laugh: one minute the PSP is inadequate because it doesn't have a second analogue stick, the next minute it's obsolete thanks to a device with no buttons at all. If PSP2 has game downloads, a much better browser than PSP, dual analogue sticks and a touchscreen, it will sell very big numbers. And few will give a toss that they cannot make cellphone calls.
