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XanderXT on 11 October 2016
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KBG29 said:
XanderXT said:

200 million? Where did you get that number?

All those apps? You would need the companies that make them to port it the handhelds. What would their incentive be? That "200 million" people would buy one of the handhelds? 

And no, the difference between releasing a a New 3DS and releasing an iPhone 7 is massive. With the New 3DS, you have to remind people that it's not much different from the 3DS. With the iPhone 7, you'd need to tell the world all the new and exclusive features it has, in order to differentiate it from previous models. 

240 Million people bought the DS and PSP. That was 240 million people that bought a dedicated mobile gaming device. Had Vita and 3DS had phone capabilites, they would have easily held onto most of those users.

Yes, developers have to port apps. In the beggining, iOS and GPS will have a massive advantage, and it will take time for devs to make apps for these devices. However, the backing of NX and PS4 would be a huge help. Create one app and it works on 70 million PS4's and PS4 Phone. It's not iphone or Android numbers, but it is a massive group of people, that they would otherwise loose business from.

I don't even know what you are getting at in the last part. Market confusion? 

ArchangelMadzz said:

Uhm, no it would succeed because it's Apple and people literally would buy Apples faeces. 

It wouldn't even reach that. 

Sony sell their smartphones for a lot more than a PS4 and still lose money. And no one is buying a $650 phone to play playstation games, when they can buy Apple or Samsung and play on their PS4's.

Apple fans are bad, but they arn't that bad.

There are 200 million people out there that want gaming centric electronic devices. That is way we have had over 200 million consoles sold every gen since PS2, and why PSP and DS sold 240 Million units. Sony and Nintendo have still never offered these 240 million people a phone. If and when they do, those 240 million people will be on board in no time. 

Sony is loosing money on Xperia because of the massive decline in sales, not because of price. They had to write down over a billion dollars in valuation loss, because the whole Sony Mobile unit was worth multiple times less than they promised share holders. The continued losses are do to massive amounts of unsold stock, due to sales dropping from 50 million units to 15 million. They greatly over produced and have had to take losses on non sold hardware.

Easily? Where's your proof? Most of those 200 million users probably abandonded their handhelds when smartphones came out. The ones that didn't were dedicated gamers, and we don't know how many they are.

A PS4 Phone? You have any idea how much that would cost? They would probably have a price of over 1000$, and that's without a subscription plan. Not to mention, why would developers make an app for a home console? Even if it had a mobile counterpart, they wouldn't make it work for the console. The console and mobile version would be very different.

And in the last part, I'm talking about incentives. Nintendo still makes the original 3DS, but Apple no longer make the original iPhone. Nintendo still makes the original 3DS, because newer models are not much different. Apple no longer makes the original iPhone, because they advertised newer models as much better phones, even if the features were barely an upgrade. Nintedo would have to abandon their way of releasing handhelds, which would be very difficult.