Sony makes the most per phone of any Android maker's

[Teeqoz]

joeorc said:

Teeqoz said:

Because then you'd get the same situation you have now only worse: low profit margins, and ridiculously low volumes.

The Xperia branding might not have "caught on", but they are still selling ~25 million phones a year, and that is a helluva lot more than a Playstation phone would sell. If you follow your idea, they'd probably get numbers in the realm of 1 million phones a year, tops. I mean, I'm a rather dedicated gamer, and no way in hell would I buy a Playstation phone (and I'm a Playstation fan). Furthermore, I would consider buying an Xperia. My point is that branding the phones Playstation would scare off soooo many consumers, and if you try to make it a "dedicated gamer phone", it would scare off even more. Sony would be a lot better off just keeping the Xperia brand than doing that.

Again Sony stated they are not going for market share but profit! Consumers for smart phones do not buy expensive games on their smartphone's right?

But gamers in consoles Do!

If playstation gamers know that every game made for your smartphone has physical controller support instead of only touch screen only control inputs..they would not be targeting the average smartphone user for software sales.

Yeah, so ask yourself, which is more profitable, selling 25 million devices a year at a 10$ profit per unit, or selling 1 million (generous number) at 25$ profit per unit, + 20$ per unit in profit from game sales (again, generous number).

250 million > 45 million. This also completely ignores other operating costs that aren't related to manufacturing, so in likelihood, such a Playstation phone venture would likely lose money, because management, upkeeping relationships and making deals with carriers, marketing etc. all cost money.

But I doubt we will agree on this. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what Sony does (And I'm fairly confident they won't do what you said )