| KBG29 said: Do you not understand that there is no profit to be made on Android? Your example of iPhone is exactly why they have to make their own OS. Making their own OS does not mean trying to go head to head with Google and Apple tomorrow. They have to build around the base where they are strong. The PlayStation Phone would be geared towards Sonys highest spending consumers, and largest and most loyal fan base. If they sell 50M PS Phones it would be a more profitable venture than 200M Xperias, because these people would be using PlayStation Vue, PlayStation Video, PlayStation Music, PlayStation Now, and buying games and apps on PlayStation Network. Every dollar spent on the platform would be going to Sony's revenue and creating new profits, and massive growth. They have to attack this just like they have with home PlayStation consoles. They tack on an extra feature (CD, DVD, Blu-ray) and let it be a trojan horse to getting the platform places it never would have been. Then as the user base grows you start to branch out and market to the wider audience. Like I have said in other threads, the first 50M would be in the first two years. With that size of userbase, they would start to attract some apps on iOS and Android over to their platform, as they continue to become more competitive that migartion will continue. They have everything they need to kick this off and be one of the top mobile platforms in the world by 2020. All they need to do is get the PlayStation Phone out on all major carriers and let the consumer take over from there. They would own Japan within two years, 4 years in Europe, and they would have Apple and Google shaking in their boots in the US by 2020. |
Lol right, because all these companies making android smart phones are doing it because they don't rake money in from sales. Makes total sense.
And please enlighten me how making a new operating system on a SMART PHONE won't compete with android or ios? That's literally inevitable. There's no fucking way that someone looking toward their next cell phone won't compare the feature set of a Playstation phone to two other operating systems on the same idea of a mobile device. Sony doesn't have the financial ability to develop a fully featured, gorgeous UI without going through serious teething problems the first few years. The majority of the people aren't going to prefer a vita type OS over the other two well established OS' that already have massive Dev support. The market won't allow another major OS to enter, two seems to be it. Look at windows phone market share. Look at symbiam. Look at what's left of blackberry. You're saying Sony could distinguish itself by offering games but cell phones already do games the best they can. I'm not gonna lug around a gigantic phone that has 5 hour battery life with joysticks on it. Most PlayStation gamers agree with that as evidenced by vita sales.
At this point PS4s appeal extends beyond gaming, and a major driving factor behind the uptick in stock value is PSVue. People have predicted PSVue over every other service is going to reach the mass market, not gaming itself. These are all things that people don't so on their phones. Music streaming, small games lacking depth, social media... That's what people do with their phones. I'd almost hope they release this phone just so we can watch it crash and burn but that'd be extremely petty and I don't wish that failure upon them. This might've been a risk to take had they the extra capital to experiment with but they don't and this is far too risky. If such an idea was feasible then the vita never would've existed in lieu of the phone youre asking for.
Again, battery life would suck. No way it couldn't.
The phone would be bulky, thick and have joysticks.
The OS would be premature right out the gate.
There's a huge lack of apps.
All just to play vita games.
They can incorporate PSN into the Z4 without ditching android while marketing with that sex appeal factor. The things you suggest equate to corporate suicide.
