| jacks81x said: I'm not sure if Sony ever thought they could beat Nintento in the handheld market or if their intention was to just steal some market share. If the objective is to make money, you don't have to be #1 to do so. If the market is lucrative, there's money to make whether you're #1 or #2 or #5. |
I think they saw how slowly Nintendo was going with increasing technology as well as the growing threat/fad that was the iPod and figured the PSP would be a way to hit two birds with one stone. It would give them a multimedia device to market against the likes of Apple and a handheld device to wound the previously unchallenged Nintendo. It started fairly strong but the games didn't have enough steam outside of Japan and the multimedia aspects of it were soon over shadowed by the smartphones.
Vita is their attempt to try again, now that they see digital purchases are going to be the future, the benefits of remote play via cloud and other aspects, they wanted to try to turn the strong finish the PSP had in Japan into something greater but so far outside of a few Japanese developers still have yet to do much besides make Vita a potentially less successful PSP2. The push of the digital indie software and the cross/remote play features with the PS3 and PS4 are probably the last real surge Sony will give the system before writing it off as a failure.
