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

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vivster said:
To answer the poll, none of the above. I already have a phone. Another dedicated device would be stupidly inconvenient. Either they get their mobile games on current platforms or they shouldn't even bother.

The only problem is nothing but crap can be delivered on the current iOS and Android form factors. It doesn't matter how good a developer is, if all you give them to work with is touch screen and tilt, all you will get is throw away shovelware. 

Some people say, but you can use your DS4 and remote play, but that is the ultimate in inconvenience. I already am over loaded when I have to have a phone and a handheld on me, I don't want a phone, and a massive non mobile freindly controller with me at all times.

Finally, I don't want to have to purchase everything twice being forced to use one ecosystem for home,and one for mobile. So either Google and Apple need to give gamers a choice for home that can compete with PS4, PC, and XBO, and a choice that can compete with 3DS and Vita. Or, Sony, Microsoft, & Nintendo need to inject some innovation into the stale, and stagnant mobile industry.

asqarkabab said:
Why they have to ?
Nintendo is successful with its handheld and soony will never ever make a handheld again

Nintendo is nowhere near successful with there handheld. 60 million is an absolute disaster, it is a bigger fall in marketshare than PS2 to PS3. It is not success when consumers and investers are bagging for you to bring your software to competing devices so they don't have to buy yours. If the NX is not innovative and competitive with consoles, PC, Phones, and Tablets, then Nintendo will loose the rest of the share they have left. 

As for Sony, they are in a death spiral riding on Android and Xperia. PlayStation is the only hope they have of keeping a presence in mobile, and in consumer electronics in general for that matter. If Sony does not unite under the PlayStation Ecosystem, the entire company will eventually fade into irrelevance. They need Sony Phones, Televisions, Cameras, Blu-ray Players, Audio Recivers, and Car audio all running on PS4 OS or a variation of it. They need to build up their ecosystem to the point where there is so much money to be made on it, that no software developer can ignore it. In all fact, that is wheree evey company needs to be if they want to survive in the ecosystem driven future.