The problem with the Vita.

[torok]

BasilZero said:

torok said:

BasilZero said:

superchunk said:
That is the exact reason it should of been a phone. (yes I've been saying this for almost a year now

So you want the gaming division to compete against the mobile division? i.e. kill themselves? lol

They already have smartphones, tablets, etc. And phones with controls aren't a success. People prefer thinner phones and physical controls make them bulky.

Which is another good point on why the Vita is best as a gaming dedicated system rather than a pseudo smart phone.

As a handheld, its form is great: confortable, big screen, nice analogs and DPAD. But, thinking as a smartphone, its thick and enormous. It won't fit in my pocket and the analogs would be another problem.

 

superchunk said:

torok said:

They already have smartphones, tablets, etc. And phones with controls aren't a success. People prefer thinner phones and physical controls make them bulky.

People who'd buy a game console would be ok with a thicker phone. But they won't carry two devices. (strictly in a general majority sense)

For me, Vita smartphone = NGAGE and that phone wasn't exactly a success (and we had all the jokes, the "taco" history...) And most people I know that have consoles still prefer thinner phones. We had some dev phones here, including a LG WP7 one with a physical keyboard. Everyone hated the design of the device and it was considerated simply ugly. When we won dev phones for every developer, we always had the same joke: "let's hope that we don't get the LG one" (we got a Samsung one).