If Sony makes a "Playstation Switch" could it succeed?

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EricHiggin said: 

I think both a portable/hybrid and phone could do well enough to make it worth supporting, but I don't see either product coming anywhere close to PS4 territory. Even PS3 numbers would surprise me. Maybe sales of both added together. PS would also have to focus more on free to play games, first and third party. I would have to assume if they were going to attempt this, they would try a Switch like model first, and if that sold well enough, then the phone possibly. They would have the gaming aspect covered well, but as for the rest of the phone itself, trying to take a larger portion of Apple and Samsung's pie isn't going to be easy. A small handheld with the flip screen portion being removable as a phone would be their best bet I think. Small enough to be a phone, large enough together to be a handheld with decent controls. I think PS needs a strong enough and stable enough handheld/hybrid before they even attempt an all in one phone with a strong gaming focus.

I think they have to have the Phone and Hybrid/Portable option available from day one. The biggest complaint I heard about Vita from non gaming forum types, was the lack of a system level phone/text support. People love the idea of the Vita, having better inputs than just touch, and higher quality games, but without it being a phone people lost interest. Most people don't  want to carry around a seperate phone and a handheld.

Basically if they make any handheld, it should have have a Wifi only model, and a 4G/5G Phone model. Once they have the ground work for this type of product layed, offering a version with mobile support is a very high potential, and very low cost option. If they could work out deals with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon in the US, they could easily move more units of a PlayStation Phone than they currently are with the whole range of Xperia devices.