Does anyone think PS3 can realistically get to second place?

[joeorc]

jarrod said:

supercat said:

jarrod said:

supercat said:
-substantiated rumors on the PSP2 which is going to kill in the marketplace

lol.  Hope springs eternal.

Meh.  The big advantage to a phone with decent CPU like a handheld is that adding games onto it will cost very little more well besides adding a few buttons or whatever, and given the high graphic requirements of games, it will likely be a HD phone as well.    This is going to be a great phone, and both sony ericcson and the games division of sony will benefit because they are working together.

The big stumbling block is that Sony's already burned a lot of industry goodwill on PSP, which didn't work out so well for most, and the Go especially has tarnished the notion of DD-only content delivery in a PlayStation handheld.  Sony's had lofty goals and great design this generation, but they invariably end up fumbling the execution in some respect.  And I don't really see adding Ericcson to the mix doing much more than further confusing things.  PSP2/phone's future is very much an uncertain prospect.

how so?

there is more of an indication that is where Sony is going with the PSP than sticking it out in the dedicated handheld gaming device market.

heep what PSP's you have now just move the PSP function's to be added to now smartphone's. its not trying to compete in two market's at one because you only need one handheld at a time, Many people only want to carry one handheld device at a time.

so.

by adding playstation functionality to a smartphone..you would not need a dedicated Playstation portable device. thus since Smartphone app's are digital download anyway. Its atleast a Market that Sony could move the Playstation portable too without still trying to keep competeing directly with the Nintendo in the dedicated handheld game system market.

right now Sony sold quite a number of PSP system's but also right now it has a hard time selling PSP software.

so instead of trying to compete for shelf space which Nintendo dominates with DS software. Move the PSP to digital download only. which they seem to have anyway..less and less PSP software is selling anyway.

You can see already How UMD's carried in store shelves are already have small shelf space.

All psp's already can download PSP game's anyway! so no one is left out anyway so, there is no problem with going all digital download only.

all smartphone's already are digital download already anyway.

I think moving the PSP functionality over to smartphone's is more of an option than just putting out a PSP2

you alway's heard many gamer's : well if they just added a second analog nub, i would buy a PSP

so what if sony did do you think that people would still buy one?

At this point Sony removed the PSP umd drive after many complained I do not Like UMD's after they did it ..well the PSPGo offer's nothing more than the older PSP.

no matter what Sony does with the PSP it will alway's be priced too high because many people still compare it's price to the Nintendo offering. even if the PSP2 has over all better hardware it will still be seen is too pricey.

So if Sony does move the PSP over to the Smartphone market Atleast the prospect's would be better than just trying to keep competeing with Nintendo in the dedicated gaming handheld space.