Nintendo and Sony have to bring out Handheld/Phone hybrids in 2017.

[ArchangelMadzz]

KBG29 said:

BasilZero said:

 

Good luck to Sony and Nintendo if they go that route.

 

Would make Vita and WiiU sales/user numbers look fantastic in comparison.

Not sure how devices that would sell Vita and WiiU lifetime sales every 12 months on a bad year, would shed a fantastic light on those platforms sales?

ArchangelMadzz said:

A playstation phone isn't turning anything around. People aren't going to change their phone device to play playstation games on the go. They already released an Xperia Play and it did awful. 

Sony aren't interested in it, they don't need to be, they're doing perfectly fine without it, it would just be another product to bleed money

Xperia Play was not a PlayStation device. It was a bastard product at the end of a bad relationship with Ericsson. Sony never wanted anything to do with it. It had no access to PlayStation Network or the PlayStation Store propper, and it never recievced any software from World Wide Studios. It was an under speced, non supported product, and is not even indicitive of what a PlayStation Phone could do in the market. 

If they made this product, it would be a bigger seller, and bigger money maker than the PS4 itself. Kaz is interested, he has said the mobile space needs an innovative product, and is working hard to unifiy Sony under the PlayStation OS, and the PlayStation Network. He just has to convience the board to fold Sony Mobile into Sony Interactive Entertainment. With SCI making up the majority of profits at Sony, it will be easier and easier to do as time goes on.

It doesn't matter, because it was doomed to failure. 

A sony smartphone/handeld would not do well. People don't want to change from iPhones and Samsungs to a playstation phone device. They aren't going to up and change everything for it. People like playstation games so they're happy buying a PS4 to do it, they don't have to replace anything. Also this phone would be more expensive than a PS4, if it isn't it wont be a good/powerful phone. That's insanity.