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derpysquirtle64 on 28 December 2016
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KBG29 said:
derpysquirtle64 said:
I think Sony will never release handhelds again. The only thing that may happen in the future is a phone with exclusive Playstation service with mobile games. Sony were talking about the possibility of releasing mobile games based on Nintendo's success with Pokemon Go. So why not?

The problem is there is no way to do that on Android, and there is no hardware that could do PlayStation games justice. A phone that has PlayStation Services and Mobile games could only happen via Sony's own OS within the PlayStation ecosystem. At that point they might as well just fold Sony Mobile into Sony Interactive Entertainment and rebrand their phones under PlayStation.

Even if for some reason they went ahead and did another Xperia Play, it would be a disaster. Then they would have in house competition between Sony Mobile and Sony Interactive Entertainment. Any functional business is not internally competing with itself, and escpecially competing against the comapny itself, which is exactly what is happeing right now with Xperia Phones and Bravia TVs running on a competitors OS.

Sony is going to develop games for android and iOS through SIE via Forward Works, but they will not be real games, they will simply be little throw away titles like Pokemon Go and Mario Run to keep a pressence in the mobile space, and keep up brand awareness. Just like Nintendo is doing with their current phone games, they are only there to keep them in the spot light. Switch is the real deal for Nintendo, they want people playing on their device, on their network, because that is where they make the real money.

It won't be hard to make some Playstation Service app for Android. The problem is that Android is an open platform so it won't be hard to install this app on any other Android phone (Samsung for example). The problem with PS OS on the other hand is that it will be hard to convince developers to make apps for this OS. You can see that even Microsoft has this problem with Windows Mobile. So there are few people who buy Windows smartphones. Because smartphone without apps is nothing nowadays.