| superchunk said: I guess I didn't specify this in the OP, but I would say that my vision of this PSVPhone is an Android based product. Personally, I still think PSV has core Android elements with a heavy layer of Sony modifications. So, you'd have the same smartphone experience with the full Android market, etc. Additionally, have you read about Blackberry's addition of Android apps in their OS or news breaking of running Ubuntu Linux with Android? Basically, you could easily have a full Android experience along with Sony's defined OS for their security and gaming. The only difference in owning your current smartphone would be the slide form factor vs the probably candy bar style you currently have. Also, don't you already sign a 2 year contract with your phone or are you buying older gen phones for less or brand new phones for $500? I don't see why there is any resistance to signing a contract for this true playstation phone idea I'm describing. There is no loss as a phone or a portable game console. There is only gain in that it hits a much larger market with far more pricing options. Also, the number of people who would buy the currect PSV would still buy this phone. The costs and performance would be exactly the same. The only difference is a much larger additional market would also buy it. The people like myself who either won't buy a 2nd portable media device and/or don't normally care that much about portable gaming. We would be intrigued to buy it since it would replace a device we already carry. |
If even half of the PSVs sold turn out to be 3G models with active data plan subscriptions, your argument might have a leg to stand on, but it sounds like the overwhelming majority of potential buyers won't even commit to that because they "just want to play the games."
For clarification; I just want to play the games. I paid $300 for a 3G model with a data plan that I can activate or deactivate on a monthly basis. I would not sign off a 2 year contract, even if this non-existent Android Vita phone was free. I already have a smartphone and even though I'm in the market for another one, I'm looking at the best Android models available or will simply hold out for the iPhone 5.
Feel free to change the increasingly hypothetical situation to if Samsung made a Galaxy III Vita phone or a Motorola Razr Maxx Vita phone, but seriously; this is getting a little ridiculous.
In the end, most people would still want a PSV that played the games, no plans, no contracts even if you are not in that majority.
Run a poll and see what I'm talking about.
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