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Originally Posted by xtop
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Because the PSP would be old hardware by the time it came out? Because in order to be effective as a PSP, it would have to be an odd shape and size for a phone? Because there is already an entrenched rising star that is a music player, phone, internet communication device and portable touch screen computer?
In order for Sony to compete, they would have to have significantly better specs than the PSP to overcome the inertia of the iPhone/iPod Touch, have a DRM free online music/video store, have a syncing/management tools on windows "and" OS X and offer sale of games and other software for it through their management tool and on the phone itself.
Trying to sell a phone device that only catered to games would not have much of a chance at this point in the game.
Tying it to windows only or just to the PS3 would be a major mistake. No offence to windows users but the windows community tend to be followers rather than leaders when it comes to "buying" music online. iTMS was a success because it was tried out on the mac platform first and then released onto windows after there was pent up demand for it among windows users wanting to join in on the fun. It also would not make much sense to sync with the PS3 since nobody keeps their contacts/phone numbers on their console.