I've said it before and I'll say it again: Sony should forget about hand-helds and focus on the PS3. They did remarkably well in the console space before concentrating on portable gaming. The only way I see them doing well in this market is to create an iPhone type device. They still wouldn't touch Nintendo's market but they could at least find their niche with a system that was a phone, mp3 player, etc., plus house all of their first-party exclusives.

I would like to see SONY make the PSP2 into a awesome gaming machine before any thing else multimedia is necessary but should take a back seat to gaming. Now with the 3DS the PSP2 looks like it will need 3D support to and the PSP2 needs to dump UMD as a media format without resorting to Digital Distribution.

The problem is, both Nintendo and Apple are doing their functions correctly, on all fronts.

I understand that you are applying the strategy and its fundamental qualities, but there is literally nothing else. In your own words "they are screwed"

1. Just because you claim those are does not mean they actually are. And if you mean those are on mainstream devices, then that doubles that Sony shouldn't use them since they would follow the red ocean. People already have phones. Just imitating the iPhone makes it a Zune. Other features are geek wants, not mainstream wants.

2. They should let Nintendo have that and make their own market. The point of the red ocean is that you avoid it. At least until you are ready for disruption, but Sony needs to make their own market before trying for something like that. Apple couldn't make a dent against Windows, but when they found their own markets, even Bill Gates was reported to be worried.

Frankly, Sony's best best is to include something a lot of you aren't going to like, but the mainstream will love. I don't know what it might be, or else I would try to make or pitch such a product myself. The reason it needs to be something you tech people hate is that it ensure they won't try it themselves until it is too late.

I hate to beat a dead horse, but just because it's been said doesn't mean it's not true. So many of the games the PSP is trying to make NEED dual analog to be GREAT, they can be "playable" or "okay" without it, but who wants that?

The DS is NOT a multimedia machine, has anyone noticed that? Nintendo has sold a gazillion of them too, why should the PSP try to be an everything machine, you end up with nothing being outstanding. Make it a GREAT gaming machine first, focus on software first, make it multifunction only if you can and it makes sense.

No, you (and perhaps Sony) just aren't accepting that there is something else. There is always something else, or else tech growth could not exist. Or are you believing the the notion that everything has been invented?

"The DS is NOT a multimedia machine, has anyone noticed that? Nintendo has sold a gazillion of them too, why should the PSP try to be an everything machine, you end up with nothing being outstanding. Make it a GREAT gaming machine first, focus on software first, make it multifunction only if you can and it makes sense."

That and go for a form of gaming Nintendo isn't trying. Not "bigger and more detailed" though.

In making that statement, I am saying that the things that haven't been invented are either financially impossible, or not viable or marketable except to the gamers. Dual analogs, for example. Definitely possible. Blue Ocean? Not really. Glasses/virtual reality based...definitely possible, blue ocean? Yes...fincancially/etc affordable? No.

Think about it and get back to me with an idea.

The basic concept of a portable is that it's small, performs a function that is normally relegated to something larger or more expensive, and you have to look at a screen and have some kind of input.

Right now, there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of devices that fit those categories in varying aspects and prices.

But just keep in mind that the 3ds is going to severely disrupt the 3d market by providing a mainstream product that makes the rest look dated. And so far, it is an untapped market. So, Sony can either jump in that, or come up with its own idea.

So, think of an idea, and get back to me.. because what it looks like from here, there are markets with room for competitors. Other than that, Sony is in an untouched market with its video game division. There is no experience like the one on psp. So, in thinking of an idea, also keep in mind that they need to retain a portion of that...or they will be giving up a pretty large market, 60m consoles worth of market to be precise.

The only thing I can imagine is MMOs, Facebook type gaming, and maybe a legitimate gambling network.