| Kerotan said: I agree. A ps vita was bought for me 2 years ago but I've barely ever used it apart from ps1 classics. Got an Xperia z3 compact and there are tons of free time waster games on it. Don't really play them myself but my go plays loads. Chatting to my god son who used to be addicted to his ds he's telling me about kids in his school getting iPhones or ipads. He's only 7 lol |
I think it's a tendency. I prefer handhelds, I barely played on my Nexus 7 after getting a Vita. It's usually nice for travelling since I won't take a home console with me. But I know that I'm a niche player and most people prefer to have a smartphone to play. The lack of physical controls (good ones, DS4/Vita level) and the lack of real, console-like games is the main thing pushing me away from phones.
I would like to see Sony trying a new handheld/phone hybrid. Like Xperia Play. I liked what they tried there, but the problem is that they never went full on. It wasn't a "Playstation phone": it was just a Xperia with a joystick. And in the market today, nobody wants a Xperia but everybody wants a PS. They didn't released the games there. In the end, they didn't want to canibalize the Vita market, the Play was weak and in the end both devices should have been one. With their recent tendency of putting Playstation on everything because that's their only valuable brand now (Bravia is weaker than Sammy's TVs, Xperia is weaker than Sammy and Motorola and so on), like with Playstation Vue, I think it's time for them to make a sucessor for Vita that is a smartphone. But not a Xperia Play 2, they need a Playstation phone. Selling on contract, they can retail it for a sweet price even if they pack a solid SoC like Tegra K1.
