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

[dharh]

superchunk said:

dharh said:

superchunk said:

dharh said:
No see, I didn't miss your point at all. You are missing my point. I would not buy such a device for gaming. It would destroy serious gaming for me. I would never spend 5 hours playing a game on a mobile phone.

Apparently you would jump at the chance though. So there you have it. 1 less buyer, 1 more buyer. As I said before, perhaps it would make them lots of money.

But in the end it would strand many core gamers with no where to turn to play the games they love.

What you are saying doesn't make sense. You'd spend 5hrs playing on the vita, but if the Vita had cellular features, you wouldn't? That makes no sense what-so-ever.

The form factor would be different if it were a phone, it would have to be. Thus it would be near useless as a long term gaming device. 

Would it have the same controls? Yes, make it a slide open type of device with all the same dual analog buttons touch etc.

With that change, pretty much everything else would be able to remain as is, including raw power.

A Playstation Vita Phone with a 5inch OLED screen and a slide out gamepad with even the most advanced current cell phone battery would be thicker than the PS Vita already is and would probably have at _max_ 1 hour of playable time before you either had to plug it back in or forgo being able to take calls throughout the day.

Not only is it not practical it would just plain not be anywhere as good as the PS Vita is. It would have to sacrifice something and I for one would skip it. I do not believe we could have everything we have now with the PS Vita and add in it being a smart phone.