joeorc said:
for the PSP yea, I mean think about how the PSPGo is pretty much near a phone already only thing missing is dedicated phone chip function's the PSP already does skype. by Sony doing a dedicated Playstation Smart Phone the market can handle many Smartphone's on the market at one time. so the Market share's are more distributed between so many device's what's one more added to the Mix. the point being since the Playstation smart phone would be able to have strong 1st party game support, it may give it a unique feel among all the other smart phone's. and since there is so many carrier's some may even bid for exclusive contract for this phone. just like Apple did with Iphone An AT&T. |
Adding phone functions to a portable gaming device could add 100-$150 to the cost, as you'd need to add an internal antennae, speaker for input and output, but adding gaming functions to a phone won't add a lot of cost at all. It will need a very slight upgrade from whatever the Iphone currently has, to get PSP-level games on it. Since phones sell many times over that of gaming devices, i'd wager that this would be a big thing for Sony. It basically shouldnt matter if the thing costs three or four hundred any more, because people will be buying it to have a premium phone, and a lot of people do.