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

[joeorc]

Buzzi said:

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).

does it matter?

think about this all smartphone's are handheld's, look what happened to dedicated PDA's one only has to look at what happened to Palm Inc.

look the smartphone market absorbed the PDA market..you only need one Hand Held at a time!

the PSP phone would seperate itself from the rest of the smartphone's by software.the Playstation Phone series of Phone's would be the only Handset's beside the PSP to have access to PSP game's.

" wouldn't trying to be at the same time and handheld and a smartphone a suicide?"

how would it?

you only use one handheld at a time, so your only going to have one handheld in you hands at one time.

right now Nintendo is the big boy in Handhelds the DS has sold very well moreso than the PSP. why would sony continue in that market dynamic directly when even the Apple Iphone is counted as a direct threat to their market share and it's a  smartphone!

by Placing the PSP in the Smartphone arene it would position it as a smartphoe with unique software only found on the PSP phone and the psp's. the prefect example is the Ipod touch..it's the Iphone without the phone function.

Sony already has several of those devices..the PSP!

but by adding a PSP smartphone they drive the PSP in a new market.

“We took a very sophisticated PlayStation middleware and shrunk it to fit the Android OS,”

Sony has been working with The Android OS for the past 2 year's i think that's exactly what they are going to do..it's a smart direction for the PSP platform.

lower the price on the PSPGo and phase out the UMD psp's completely from the market and just keep the PSPGo.

as the Non phone for PSP software..and create the PSPphone as the bridge device!

the PSPphone would be seen by many as a relaunch of the PSP platform.