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superchunk on 08 March 2012
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RVDondaPC said:


I'm telling you, a combination of the two, would make it undesirable for either market(IMO) because of technical or physical limitations. You cannot optimize a device to be the ultimate gaming handheld and a competitive smart phone at the same time. It is impossible. Just like you can't take a high end gaming PC and fuse it with an Ipad, and expect the portability and affordablity of the Ipad and the power and functionality of a high end gaming console to hold true. It might all make perfect sense in your head and in theory but when it comes down to actually making the physical product, there will have to be many compromises that have to be made and it will hurt the experience on both ends. Also they cannot sell the Vita at a loss and give it the complete open Android market. Publishers would then just create mobile games on the android market that takes advantage of the controls and avoids the licensing fees that Sony charges for selling Vita games. That means Sony would no longer be able to sell the Vita at a loss and would probably have to be $200 to $300 more, on top of the greater cost of making it a smart phone. 

You say price is not an issue, but it is an issue. You say size is not an issue, but it is. You say battery life is not an issue, but it is as well. You keep saying people will adapt, but you yourself is unwilling to adapt and carry two devices. That is very telling of what people would do if they had to make all these sacrifices to have a Vita Phone the way you want it. 


The only way I can remotely agree that Sony couldn't pull this off in a more successful manner than Vita will be is form factor.

Battery would not be a change from any usage now on either device. Price would be less for the greater majority of purchasers, so I don't see why this is even a contentious point.

Form factor is the only one I've ever been a little uneasy about. But, with that I look at the many slider style phones now that are successful. Hell, the Motorola Droid has been on of the most popular on Verizon as has been many others on other carriers, as popular as candybar style, no, but popular none-the-less. The 3DS and DS are very popular and I think even more desireable due to the clam shell design... granted slider and clam shell are not the same thing. I do think there is a valid concern that a fatter slider phone would push people off as well as not people prefering the current Vita form over a slider form. However, I also thought about the initial and ongoing reaction to PSPGo when it came out. Only thing I ever heard as a  complaint was the software, not form factor. So in the end I think that while it may push off some, the fact of it being your smartphone would attract far more.