Why Has No One Made a Great Gaming Phone?

andylim writes "According to Engadget, John Koller, Sony's head of PlayStation marketing, recently said that 'Apple's entrance into the portable gaming space has been a net positive for Sony. When people want a deeper, richer console, they start playing on a PSP.' What's odd though is that everyone knows that the mobile phone gaming market is a huge and yet neither Sony nor Nintendo has made a gaming phone yet. Recombu.com thinks that Nokia could enter the space with PSP-like devices and it has come up with a concept phone called the Ovi Orion, which would bridge the gap between phone and console, 'If the iPhone is Wii, then Ovi Orion would be Xbox and offer Xbox Live style features. A serious gaming phone for serious gamers.'"

Comments

Re:uh

[geminidomino]

But I think the vast majority of the time ["the serious gamer"] should be the "slacker who does nothing but play video games".

Worse. I've come to the conclusion recently that "serious gamers" are the kind of drooling, stuck-in-pre-adolescence chimps who are deeply offended by the inclusion of optional "easy modes" for people who might want to buy and enjoy a game without having to spend 16 hours to get each level "just right."

Re:HELL YES!

[drinkypoo]

Your sig is particularly ironic. I've seen a lot of people concentrating on things other than driving in traffic, and it's always been bad. Without exception, they are less aware of what is going on and leave a larger than usual gap in front of them, encouraging people to lane-swap to get around them, and thus creatign a hazard. Your idea is stupid, period, the end. I had to make threatening gestures to stop one ass clown down in the LA area from reading when he should have been driving, on my return from San Diego recently. He was driving like a total ass clown and perturbing traffic everywhere around him. Do this on the wrong day down there and you might just get shot, and that is not a threat, because I don't live down there. It's the simple truth.