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Conina on 12 October 2016
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KBG29 said:
Drakrami said:

2. The only companies who makes a decent profit on manufacturing phones are called Apple and Samsung. Why would Sony or Nintendo go gangbusters into a market they know they have a slim chance of penetrating and make any profit once they do?

2. Sony and Nintendo would do very well because they would bring out their own platform. Having its own platform is the reason Apple is the most profitable phone manufacture. When the company owns the platform, and the hardware, they get royalties on every transaction made on the device. This is why with only 40 million PS4's, Sony is making 100's of millions of dollars a quarter.

If Sony and Nintendo could even sell 50 million phones a peace, they would be making a couple billion in profits per year.

If it is all that easy if you have your own platform... why didn't Blackberry or Nokia or WindowsPhone made a couple billion in profits per year in the last years?

 

KBG29 said:

Sony already has the ground work for this set, they don't have to make a major investment. They have a partenership in place with AMD already, and they both know the PS4 architcture in and out. Building a phone that has a shrunk down PS4 APU, that would be mobile friendly while still devlivering PS4 software at 540P would be relatively easy and cheap at this point. Nintendo has a bit furthur to go due to being so late to the connected game, but it is not an impossible task.

If it is all that easy for Sony and AMD to shrink the PS4-tech... why is the PS4 Slim still that big and is still using up to 165 Watt and is still weighting more than 2 kg? How much power would that PS4-handheld/hybrid need for full PS4 games in "540p mode"? How big and heavy would the battery have to be for a decent battery life? How big and heavy would the device have to be?