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

[Euphoria14]

superchunk said:

Euphoria14 said:

superchunk said:

 

 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 Smartphone controls are outdated already.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.

My bolded statement was referring to hardware capabilities, not gaming controls.

I did state it would get thicker (front to back), but it would also not be as wide (left to right) and the same height (top to bottom). Definitely not the Play's touch pad option, bleh. However, maybe more like 3DS analog pads.

Yes, I don't think the back touchpad will prove to be anything more than an occasional nuisance. There are tons of slider phones out there already and they all have cases, so I don't see you're point with this one.

I don't see the tens of millions of DS and 3DS players complaining about cramped hands. I do recognize that there is a preference to wider vs narrower, but I don't this would affect it in the long run. I'd bet 99% of people buying Vita would still buy it regardless, but add to that a far higher number of users who are more like me and the few others that have agreed with me so far in this thread.

I like the width of the Vita, so if it was a slider device I would want it to slide out from both sides that way the form factor mimic that of the current device. Any other way would cause my hands to cramp.

Can you have a case for that?