The Playstation Vita should just be a smartphone. Sony should pull out of handheld gaming.

[Chris Hu]

superchunk said:

Chris Hu said:
Bad idea nobody buys Sony cell phones. A better idea is for Sony to stop making cell phones it would save them a ton of money.

Xperia phones are not as big of the market for many reasons. Prime among them is that they are not offered as widely as Samsung and Motorola.

Example, only one Xperia phone has been available at Verizon, USs largest carrier and that was the mediocre crap that was the Play.

If Sony put its higher end models that actually compete with Samsungs Galaxy line or the Droids, it would do far better.

Likewise, had xperia play been a higher end model that actually competed with phones at the same pricepoint, it would have done far better.

Sony is pretty much in last place or very close to last place when it comes to cell phone market share.  So like I said before the best thing and the smartest thing for them to do is to stop making cell phones.  Turing the vita into a smart phone wouldn't help their market share much; stop making cell phones would save them millions of dollars and that money could be spend improving divisions of their company that actually have a future.