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TheBraveGallade on 14 January 2018
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KBG29 said:
potato_hamster said:

Ohh no, they're Sony devices. Google never designed them. Sony did. Google doesn't even design their own phones.

Ohh so you don't want a phone, you want a handheld gaming system with the ability to make phonecalls. So why did you say you wanted a phone?

If Sony made a phone that ran their own OS, they would be lighting the money to create it on fire. You know this as well, because Sony pretty much already made what you want in the Vita 3G and nobody wanted it. You have one. You use it as a phone. You can problably cont on one hand the number of people who also did the same for more than a week.

You really need to start understanding that you are a gigantic outlier. Almost no one else on the planet wants what you want. Why do you keep acting like your ideas, your wants have mainstream appeal?

Sony may design Xperias and Bravias, but they are an absolute zero sum business for them. They have no connection with the consumer beyond the point of sale. Both businesses have been money pits or barley above break even for the past 2 decades. PlayStation and Cameras are the only actual Sony devices they make, that are Sony through and through. Bravia and Xperia are just products they make for Google.

Phones have come in many form factors over the years. I want a phone, in a handheld gaming form factor. 

The Vita fell well short of what I wanted. It just happened to be the only product that offered anything remotely close to the idel mobile device. It didn't help either that Sony choose to abandon it, and burn 5 billion dollars building Googles Xperia brand between 2011 and now. Since Sony didn't market the Vita as a phone, very, very few people even knew you could make calls on it. In the beggining I didn't even know. There were many people interested up until they I told them it couldn't make calls, even told my dad and brother to get the wifi model because 3G was useless without calling. Massive oversight on my part, and extreamly counterproductive.

What do you consider mainstream appeal? We know that at the absolute minimum, with nearly zero support 15 Million people will buy a PlayStation Handheld. With half ass support 80 million people bought a PSP. You actually believe there is no viable market out their for a PlayStation Phone with the full support of SIE? 

A PlayStation Phone may not be a 500 million seller, but there is definitely a profitable market out there for a Handheld Phone. You will never convince me that people want to spend more money, on more devices, with more OS's, if there is an option that simplies and unifies everything they want, in one product.

Lets look beyond Sony. If any company made a Switch clone that could replace your Handheld, your Phone, your Tablet/Laptop, your Console, you Set Top Box, your Cable Box, your Smart Speaker, and your Computer, it will be successful/profitable to some extent. That is exactly what a PlayStation Phone or a Switch Phone has the potential to be.

No the xpiria is a sony device. Its just not a device from the ps branch... which is the reason. The internal beanches of sony constantly competed with each other, which is the main reason sony is only a shell of its former self today. Only ps managed to survive  outside the camera and finantial sectors because the ps1/2was amazing and ps3 did okey.