Sony refuses PlayStation brand for PSP Phone?

[xtop]

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=81665



and why would it be a failure. take the psp..add phone. whats not to like?

[aristotles]

Originally Posted by xtop

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=81665



and why would it be a failure. take the psp..add phone. whats not to like?

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.

[xtop]

Originally Posted by aristotles

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.

why would they use the psp hardware? you do realize psp2 is well on its way right? and even if they only used the psp..the games look better on the psp than they do on the iphone.

but why should they not bother just because apple has the iphone? everyone should just not bother? i don't get it. and i highly doubt it'd have anything to do with windows mobile. but there's a music store coming to the ps3, so competing against itunes isn't a big deal at all.

and it wouldn't be as large as the psp. ideally there would be 2 sku's. a psp..and a psp phone. one full on gaming machine..one phone that does games. heck..they could be 2 very different looking machines..as max said, they're looking at the psp phone to only do downloadable games, not full on retail games anyways.

it kinda sounds like you just love your precious iphone and can't see something else living up to it