| Qays said: There is the iphone starter kit (the ipod touch) which is more or less the same as the iphone minus the calls. Then theres the iphone and now theres the ipad which can easily be ported to if you've already made an iphone game. This gets you in at all price points and avoids the contract and phone bill problems that keep those 13 and under out of the high end phone market. Which is exactly why Sony needs to make the PSP2 a real iPod/iPhone competitor. |
The only way that is viable is if they put together a full platform of games and phone calls in one family of devices. The big reason the iphone has taken off is it has combined all the functions (ipod, phone, game system) into one single device so it just seems like a waste of time and space to bring another device that only does one thing (like the PSP is).
The PS3 has had a hard time finding its footing and it was only a year behind the 360, if Sony was going to make their own phone platform from scratch they would be 85 million behind the iphone if they released it today which hurts.
I have to think that Sony, like it or not, will be headed the way of Sega and the gamegear sooner then they think unless they really throw everything behind Android or something (Android REALLY needs it, the slate of games on that platform is awful. There are more games released on the iphone in a month then on Android...ever, and the ones there are tend to be really low quality with a handful of exceptions like the baseball game and the survival horror game which end up on the iphone too).
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