supercat said:
jarrod said:
supercat said:
jarrod said:
supercat said:
-substantiated rumors on the PSP2 which is going to kill in the marketplace
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lol. Hope springs eternal.
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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.
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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.
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Fine, you disagree but realize that goodwill comes and goes like the wind in this industry. Just look at the PS3 once it got the slim and started acting more competitively, more developers want the PS3 now, and it has gotten some decent 360 exclusives, and i'm sure that the developers and industry in general appreciate sony taking the steps that it is to ensure that it will be more dominant by the end of this gen.
Questions:
-why is this confusing things? what is so confusing about buying a Sony phone marketed as a game device? You have music phones and people just dont look at them and go " what da heck" in some redneck drawl....How would it even be hard to use? You'll have a game download section just like with any other phone, probably have control buttons and so forth. Simple stuff if you play around with it.
-How has the PSP go tarnished the idea of DD for handhelds? If the go or any other handheld were successful, wouldn't this show that DD could be done well?
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1)There was the N-Gage, a gaming phone. It didn't do very well, showing a gaming phone may not be what people want. Also, there seems to be an inverse correlation with features and success. The PSP has more features than the DS, yet it is losing to it. The 360 and PS3 have way more features, but they too are losing to the Wii. This shows the market does not want features.
2)Yeah, but there is no successful Digital distribution console. In the real world, the only one that exist is a flop. Why even consider a DD console again?
