Kagerow said:
Not to be nitpicky, but they did. It perform significantly worse than Vita. Reason why Playstation Phone can never succeed is because market that Sony would want to sell such thing doesn't care if that phone is PS or not. Game is secondary bonus, not a primary goal. And phone market works significantly different from Console market. Said 'Playstation Phone' will have to include traditional game control, that would make phone extremely thick and at least twice as heavier. Also, it will increase price tag, Game launching for that phone won't be too different from Vita, so it won't attract any 'casual' crowd. And for people who already have a phone, they will have to either purchase unlocked phone at price of 500$+ or set up a new contract. Considering they will have to keep hardware spec at similar level for around 2~3 years, sales will drop drastically after first year. That is all assuming they can take the losses from making such product in the first place, AND someone won't just create the emulator for it. Since not using Android will ailenate even more possible buyers, as environment for app would be nonexistent. That said, getting jailbroken is a given, since it uses Android, which uses Linux frame, they can't set up a low level hack protection. Chance that Google or Apple is going to bend themselves over for Sony is nonexistent. There is good reason why Sony Ericsson ditched the Idea immediately. Also why Nintendo doesn't seems to bother. At least, that is how I see it. |
They ditched the idea because it wasnt playstation but android OS, there is internal devide in Sony it has nothing to do with success or anything like this why we havent a PSPhone. The Xperia Play was fine from the size and quality, just add in analogsticks, a cart slot for physical vita games and vita OS with new apps like phone calling obviously.
It would sell tons of units in asia and japan alone. The reality is gaming is bigger than all the other crap, people would like to have as less devices as posible but they still like physical buttons hence why console gaming is sucessfull. And most of the money with handheld gaming would come from royalties rather than hardware itself, sony could offer a PSPhone without making any profit and still make money with game sales.
The vita is stronger than almost every smartphone model there is because the hardware is uttilized, its not outdated at all
