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

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superchunk said:

dharh said:

superchunk said:

 

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.

I don't understand part of your logic.

Yes the form factor would be smaller in width, same in depth, and larger in thickness. That's obvious but not a detraction in any way, IMO.

The battery/play time would be identical. The Vita has a 2200mAh battery and that is already a battery common in phones as either stock or optional. My Galaxy Nexus phone has a 1850mAh and an optional 2000mAh that barely affects its thickness. The Razr Maxx comes stock with a 3300mAh battery.

I think too many of you just don't know enough about mobile phones and their current tech. Vita will be outaded by smartphones by next year. (This comment is to a lot more posters in this thread that just the one I'm quoting.)

No it won't because those phones will require you to play games with your fingers taking up precious screen real estate and half assed controls for many big time genres such as 1st person shooters. Smartphone controls are outdated already. I love my phone but I can easily admit this. Controls for most games absolutely SUCK.

Also, how do you figure it wouldn't get any thicker? Gonna collapse the sticks and turn them into nubs again? Gonna make it so you could press the sticks in and then slide the phone back in (Then you could accidentally collapse them during gameplay I assume). How you gonna pop them back out, grab them and pull?  Maybe erase all tactile feedback and make them like the Xperia Plays touch analog pads? <- Yuck...

Going to ditch the back touchpad I assume? Not gonna buy a phone where you can't put a simple casing on that protects the entire thing. People toss their phones around, that is why they buy these cases that protect them the entire way around.

Now if you manage to pull everything off and make it slide, you run into the old problem of cramped hands. I don't need that back. Like I said, the thing is a dedicated gaming device and I for one appreciate that the sticks and buttons are spaced out and the device has the size it has, but I would hate that size if it were my phone.