PlayStation Vita Came "Too Late," Former Sony Exec Says

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The one and only problem the Vita had, was that they did not offer it as a phone.

Had Sony offered the Vita as a phone, the price would have been half of every other phone on the market. If the Vita was a phone, millions of people would have been satisfied carrying it around, and forgoing an iphone or android, especially in 2011. If Vita would have had a phone option, people would have been using it more, which would have lead to more companies wanting to be part of it, which in turn would have brought more software of all kinds, and easily would have seen iphone apps ported to the device for everything people expect from an iphone today.

So, no, the Vita was not to late, it was the wrong product. It was what happens when you do not evolve a product with the times, and it is exactly what will happen to PS4 if Sony does not make sure it competes with Apple TV, Amazon Fire, and the rest of the disruptive products which are brining the smartphone experience to the TV.

Hopefully Kaz understands what really went wrong, and gets to work ASAP, on broadening the app support on PS4 to offer word processors, banking and trading apps, image and video editing, health and lifestyle app, and so much more. While also continueing to bring a wider range of products to the PlayStation ecosystem, based on the PS4 architecture. If they can bring us Tablets/Laptops, a handheld, and a Phone based on the PS4 hardware, and running on a modified PS4 OS, with full PSVR support, then the future of PlayStation should get stronger and stronger. But, if they refuse to eveolve and change with the times, the same thing that happened to Vita will eventually happen to PlayStation home consoles.