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Sony Continues To Lose Ground In Mobile Gaming

Posted by Soulskill on from the but-marcus-is-so-hilarious dept.

donniebaseball23 sends this quote from an opinion piece at Industry Gamers: "On Monday, news came down the pipeline from SCEE president Andrew House that Sony wants to focus on a younger audience for the PSP with future titles. My immediate reaction was one of shock and confusion. After all, in an interview with IndustryGamers at E3, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime noted that, 'the way I would describe the market for the Nintendo 3DS would be the launch market that we had with the Nintendo DS plus the launch market that maybe PSP had.' When your primary competitor is looking to the exact market that you've catered to, why would you abandon that market? There was a time when Sony Computer Entertainment was a trailblazer, bringing things to the industry ahead of everyone else. Nowadays, however, it seems that Sony is content to merely fall in step behind everyone else and simply try hard to not fall too far behind."

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  1. Sony Ericsson Android 3.0 device by Bj�rn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well the supposedly upcoming Sony Ericsson Android 3.0 device looks interesting to me, with a QWERTY keyboard and a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU.

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  2. iPod touch vs. Galaxy S by tepples · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Regarding mobile phones as alternatives to dedicated handheld video gaming systems such as the Sony product mentioned in the article:

    there are android pod touches its just cause they haven't got apples crazy markup

    Then explain the common practice of freezing all but the most expensive handsets at Android 1.6, as Samsung has done with the original Galaxy. The original Samsung Galaxy is $300, but it's stuck on Android 1.6. The Galaxy S runs Android 2 but Google Products lists it for $600. It's like making a PSP game that won't run on a PSP 1000 because it requires a new version of PSP system software that Sony has made available only for the PSP 2000, 3000, and Go, all of which have more RAM than the 1000.

    so you get a phone thrown in as well.

    I already have a (dumb) phone through Virgin Mobile USA, and the plans for these Android phones cost ten times what I'm paying now ($70/mo for a typical smartphone voice and data plan vs. $7/mo for Virgin). The data plans require at least a $40/mo voice plan, and $40/mo voice plans have ten times more minutes than I'll ever use.