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Frustrating that they had a mobile game and a mobile phone group but their only attempt to combine them was thoroughly half-assed. You can't tell me a real all
by Pxtl 8y ago
Frustrating that they had a mobile game and a mobile phone group but their only attempt to combine them was thoroughly half-assed. You can't tell me a real all-in attempt at an Xperia PlayStation wouldn't have been successful. And now they're basically giving up on both those fronts.
- cobookman 8y agoLook at the razor phone sales....i'm not sure it'd actually of been a best seller. I think the issue is what makes a good gaming platform doesn't make a great phone. Look at the nintendo switch, it'd make for a poor phone...yet its a great gaming device.
- jimmaswell 8y agoBut the 3DS form factor would've made a great phone I think. Make the top screen capacitive and keep the bottom pressure-based.
- mj_olnir 8y agoInteresting, though most people want a phone that can be held in portrait mode with a single hand. Hence the xperia play's slider design and popsockets for larger phones.
- phendrenad2 8y agoDoes the razer phone play Playstation games though? Don't underestimate the power of exclusives.
- Pxtl 8y agoGaming devices have buttons and directional pads.
- IshKebab 8y agoBut most people use the switch as a console, not as a Gameboy-type thing. All they would have had to do it provide a decent selection of games, and include two low-cost Bluetooth controllers and an HDMI dock with every phone.
- seanalltogether 8y agoI agree, Sony had a great position for selling mobile game content to the demographics that would also be paying for a cellphone. I absolutely would have bought a playstation phone if it had snap on controllers back in the late 2000s early 2010s. Nintendo would probably never step outside gameboy waters. I guess sony simply refused to cannibalize their own products to make it all work.
- jsemrau 8y agoI recently installed PS4RemotePlay on my iPad. This could have been an amazing product but it wasn't. 1. Why would I play games that were designed with a controller in mind of an iPad ? The controller scheme transition is not good. 2. Why would I want to use remote PS4 video or audio options were better quality offerings are available through the iPad directly. Sony makes amazing hardware, but they never got their head around making great software.
- VectorLock 8y agoSony seems to have a lot of divisions that don't really synergize at all. If they had collaborated on a PS Vita Phone they could have had something.