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

[EricHiggin]

potato_hamster said:

EricHiggin said:

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.

Not tough for consumers, for PS/SNY. Why doesn't PS just make an app and put it on XB1 and have PS gamers buy an XB1, a separate DS4 if they like, and play the PS games they buy on the XB1, on PSN? That way, PS spends way less on hardware, and XB gets ripped off for doing all the hard work, only to have gamers buying many PS games and playing them on their hardware. This would also be great for PS gamers if they liked some XB titles as well, since they would also be able to play them, just like iPhone and Android users. XB gamers would also be able to easily play PS games on their XB1. PS clearly wants as much control over their ecosystem as possible, for many reasons, and by trying to make a controller that uses other phones doesn't fit that model. It also means PS and SNY would purposely be sharing their mobile gaming pie with the other mobile companies, and no business wants to share if they don't have to. Did XB allow cross-play between 360 and PS3?

If PS is so keen on sharing, and not worried about consumers who want to give some of their money to other companies, why haven't they allowed cross-play yet?

Last edited by EricHiggin - on 20 January 2018