a way Sony can save it's mobile division

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aLkaLiNE said:

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.

They do not have to step righ out in front of the train. They can market directly to the gamers who are their strongest market. These are the people they can pick up, because they are not as worried about all the little Apps on the other devices. These are the people that want Remote Play and PS Now anywhere anytime over 4G, on a device that can actully play the games. The Z3 can never compete with the Vita in this regard because you have to have buttons and sticks to control PlayStation games. Carrying a Dual Shock 4 and a mount is not the answer.  

Again with the battery propaganda. They can easily fit a 4000mHa battery into a full size Vita chassis, and that would give you 10 - 15 hours of gaming. The average users would have a very hard time running it dry on a normal work day. Even on a weekend it would have plenty for 6 hour gaming session and a night at the ball gam or whatever.

The size of a Vita and a phone is much greater than a PS Phone by itself. It is way more convenient than a DS4 + mount + phone, or even a phone and a physical cradle. They alredy have an OS with three years of development, plus a hugly experienced group at Somy Mobile  Comunications. Apps are the one weak spot, but they would come quick with the huge sales momentum the device would have. Again 50M in the first two years should be no problem. This would be the #1 phone/mobile in Japan in that time. 

It is way more than playing Vita games. This is a viable platform for PlayStation Now and Remote Play. It unifies the home and mobile experience. Everything under the same ecosystem, the ultmate easy to use platform which PlayStation was founded upon.