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EricHiggin said:
potato_hamster said:

If Sony were to make a detachable phone type thing, why not just make a case/controller for the iphone or for android phones, and skip all the other bullshit?

Not sure how simple it would be to do with other phone brands and their hardware, but if SNY is going to continue to sell phones, then to make a portable PS gaming device that can hook up to any phone doesn't really make much sense. Same reason why PS and XB and Nin hardware don't cross over. Depending on what phone you had an what age it was, different connectors would also be necessary. It creates different kinds of headaches. Using a SNY PS branded phone would just make it easier, and once again, keep you more so in their ecosystem, and out of others. For those that want to keep their iPhone, and want a PS portable, they could just buy the cheaper version with the screen (dummy phone). Just another potential idea. 

So I can use Playstation Now, Pokemon Go, that New Animal crossing game, etc. on any new iPhone, but having another app that plays other Playstation or Nitnendo games would be too confusing for cosnumers?

Making a new phone (or phones), a new/adapted ecosystem, a new operating system, getting app developers on board, developing new features and enhancements, maintaining everything, and educating the market etc. would be easier for Nintendo to do than it would be to create a gamepad case for the post popular Samsung and Apple phones that make up what? 70%+ of the smart phone market? Sony already slapped playstation branding on a phone with a built in game pad. It failed miserably.

All of those problems you mentioned are *Far* easier to solve than it is to create an entirely new phone, and convince people to buy it.

Users would prefer having to go out and buy a new phone than getting a case for something they're familiar with and likely have already invested in in terms of purchases that they would lose by switching to a new ecosystem?

Okay. Keep thinking that.