If Microsoft Made A Handheld...

[joeorc]

Nintentacle said:

If Microsoft made a handheld, what do you think would happen? I don't think it would be successful. I think Microsoft would make the same mistake Sony did with console-like games on handhelds. It would be more successful than Vita thought, since I think Halo and the other ones would sell more than Uncharted, and there would be more marketing.

I disagree, since right now smartglass works very well, the Zune is very usable for entertainment, i liked that more than the iPod, more functionality for much lower price point.

as for this:

"It would be more successful than Vita thought, since I think Halo and the other ones would sell more than Uncharted, and there would be more marketing."

It could, but i think it would be very close, they would in effect both use Arm Cortex for the chipset's, and Microsoft would most likely use Snapdragon, while Sony uses PowerVR, in that sense Sony is using the same GPU's that Apple is using in the iPad III's with higher clock rate.

So in effect, you would have App store developer's for Android, and Apple vs Windows phone development for development environment's for platforms.

but the port process would be easy, so it would once again come down to 1st party efforts really.