Its too late for Sony in the Phone business. Too many big player already have their foot in the door while Sony is still in the parking lot.

Sony bought out Erickson for a reason. I think its so they could focus on increasing their phone market share.

So you do think it would be a great idea then, you're just saying no because you want sony to fail and exit the handheld gaming market.

Never try to fully understand rol. That only leads to the dark side.

I reckon they'll do a Vita phone down the line, but I think they couldn't get the hardware / design to work right for launch. Give it a year or two to redo the layout and get the costs down and it'll happen I think.

The main cheaper model will always just be a games console though and Sony absolutely shouldn't change that.

No idea why Sony should pull out of handheld gaming either... it's expensive but they have a lot of IP which can sell them a lot of software. You don't need to beat Nintendo to make it a success, hell the GameCube sold like 20m and Nintendo managed to do fine during that era.

Different is Nintendo was profitting with 20m Gamecube. I can't see Sony being profitable with only 20m Vita lifetime sales.

 Yeah I know, but I think it's pretty outlandish to suggest the Vita will only sell 20m. I'm expecting a lot more and stuff.

 IT's hardly a crowed market is all I'm saying, only two handheld consoles neither of which are really overlapping in target audience. Sony are in a good position to sell a lot of their own software too - only issue is if they lose a lot on hardware but it doesn't sound like that's really gonna happen, especially once you throw in accessories.

Sony is pretty much in last place or very close to last place when it comes to cell phone market share.  So like I said before the best thing and the smartest thing for them to do is to stop making cell phones.  Turing the vita into a smart phone wouldn't help their market share much; stop making cell phones would save them millions of dollars and that money could be spend improving divisions of their company that actually have a future.

The fictional part, but the Vita right now is kind of risky as it is lol.

Could have sworn I just came out of a time machine set for 2005.