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potato_hamster on 21 January 2018
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EricHiggin said:
potato_hamster said:

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?

This seems like a pretty asinine argument. There's a world of difference trying to compete against Apple and Google whose phones sell combined sell over 250 million units a year vs the console space which might sell 250 million over 5 years. Apple probably spends more on their iOS development and maintenance in a year than Sony will spent developing and maintaining the PS4 for its entire life. Maybe that's why you can already get a PSN app, and a PSN app on iPhone and android, you can already get Nintendo's voice app, and mobile specific games on iOS and android, and you can already get Xbox apps on iOS and android. It appears Sony, Nintendo and MS already know what seems ridiculous to you - it's a fools errand to try and compete against the juggernaut that is iOS and Android.

Is it really less logical to take it one step further and develop an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy controller case than it is to make an entirely new phone from the ground up?

Sony is currently selling 1/10th as many cell phones per year as Apple is.