Should SONY Scrap PSP2?! (If they plan to make one)

[Buzzi]

joeorc said:

Buzzi said:

aragod said:

Christian973 said:

AnthonyW86 said:

I've already seen several rumours saying Sony is working with Ericsson for the next PSP. If so and they add 3G/Phone support to the PSP2 than it might actually outsell the 3DS. Only having to carry around one device instead of two is a huge advantage.

Then they will compete with iphone which will stomp sony to death. I doubt Apple would want unwanted visitors to step into their throne in the phone market. Who cares about a phone? My iphone is going to be 4G soon.

I don't wanna burt your bubble but android has already overtaken Apple. So the phone "throne" doesn't belong to Apple, in fact it never did.

Remember the NGage...this time there's also Apple and with so many smartphones PSP would just become one out of a ton of devices who are the same. IMO it would be safetier staying in the handheld market, but adding some phone features would not be a bad move.

the NGage is not powered by Android...:)

something the PSPhone would be..it would have Playstation portable app's and Android app's to boot.

the Smartphone world does not center arround Apple.

they already did that..skype anyone! but it was at first akward to do so with a phone it would be just like anyother smartphone.

The problem is: would customer see that as a phone or as an handheld? Sure, Android is popoular and bigger than iPhone alone, but there are too much Andoid phones! Out of all the Android devices how many would be PSP2s? To sell better than current models you can't just rely on th brand playstation, because in the phone market there are bigger brands. What they can do is an hybrid between a phone and an handheld, but if it's perceived just as a phone it's the beginning of the end.

And anyway the main problem is there: software. they can count on Android's store but that's not an exclusive and maybe they would loose even more third party support, because there would be too much garbage for customers, the same which happened to Wii (but this time would be bigger, since Andoid library is gigantic).

Lastly, wouldn't trying to be at the same time and handheld and a smartphone a suicide? They would have two different userbases to understand and satisfy and two different kind of "enemies" to fight (three if we count piracy).