PS Vita 2, Or PSP 2, Must Happen..... Sony Vs Nintendo?!

[KBG29]

derpysquirtle64 said:

KBG29 said:

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. 

That is why Android would never work, if their intentions are to increase their hardware presence. No matter what they do on Android, hackers will make it possible on other phones, and people will just stick with their LG, Smasung, or HTC device.They already had this happen with Remote Play, which was supposed to be an Xperia exclusive.

As far as apps go, they have to take the same approach Microsoft is taking right now. They have 60M PS4's out their already. They have to leverage that by allowing developers to create apps that work across the entire PS4 range. Like you said, Microsoft prooved you can't drop a mobile device on the market with a Zero userbase, and hope it sells well enough to establish developer support. That is why they started the Universal Windows Applications push, and are currently readying the Surface Phone as their next attempt at the mobile market. This time they will have the apps, and the totally connected ecosystem they need to compete. Really, if you look back in time, even the iPhone had the advantage of the iPod userbase, which devs were able to develope for in addition to the the phone giving them much more incentive, utilizing your ecosystem as leverage is really the only way to break into a new market.

Finally, the one thing that a PlayStation Phone has over every other devices in the moble space, is that it would be the only place where you can continue playing Fifa, Call of Duty, NBA 2K, GTA, Gran Turismo, and so much more. No other phone would have the ability to allow gamers to play online matches with their friends at lunch, recess, break, or on the way to work/school. That alone, would be enough for some to look past the smaller inital app selection. As I have said before, they won't sell 100M devices day one, but in 5 years, they definitly will, and most likely even quicker than that. The best part about it is, being built off the PS4, most of the work is already done, and each unit sold would produce massive profit. 50 million PS Phones would be like selling 500 million Xperias, and best of all, it will continue to bring in revenue and profits for years, as opposed to it only being about the point of sale.