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Why Has No One Made a Great Gaming Phone?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the holding-an-xbox-to-your-ear dept.

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.'"

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  1. On the contrary by pwnies · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have an ngage you insensitive clod!

  2. Re:Because by Minwee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because phones are for TALKING.

    And GAMING phones are for SIDE TALKING.

    This may be why they never quite caught on.

  3. Re:Because by Urkki · · Score: 2, Funny

    Really so. I buy a phone for talking and texting, same as most of the people I know.

    No no, phones are for talking. Tele-P-H-O-N-E. Sound only. No texting allowed. Heretic!

  4. Re:They did by interkin3tic · · Score: 5, Funny

    There was a gaming phone a few years back. It flopped. No one revisited.

    It's a good thing that not everyone has that mindset.

    Wilbur Wright: "Wouldn't it be great to build a flying machine?"
    Orville Wright: "Did you hear about that guy Otto Lilenthal who tried to make one?"
    Wilbur: "No, what happened?"
    Orville: "He crashed and died."
    Wilbur: "Oh well, then that proves it can't be done ever."
    Orville: "Yup, lets get back to making this bicycle and never talk about flying ever again."

  5. Re:Because by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    preform (?) - a nonsensical word oft used when trying to discredit others.
    (From Oxford English Dictionary, 3245 edition)

  6. Re:Now your pockets are bulging by Dan541 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Game is paused and you can normally answer the call. Afterwards you can "alt-tab" back to it (not sure about iPhone, but every other phone is perfectly capable of multitasking).

    Pause!

    Not a gamer are you?

    --
    An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, "Mind if I join you?"
  7. Re:Because by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Funny

    humorless (adj) Not remotely funny; not able to appreciate or recognize a funny comment or situation.
    e.g. tagno25 is a humorless wanker.

    (My dictionary, right now).

    --
    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."