Sony’s PSP is something that you will rarely see in a technology blog’s comparison section, but that is not stopping the Japanese giant from coming out swinging against the Apple phone. What did they put together? Watch the video first, and we will break it down afterwards:
So what do we have? A PSP wielding youth berating an older hipster that his iPhone games are overpriced, and that for a mere $9.99 ($9.99!), he can get some “big boy games” on the PSP. There are several problems with this, not the least of which that $10 iPhone games are rare. They are generally much cheaper.
How about those games that Sony demoed, huh? As EverythingiCafe put it: “Big boy games include a golf game, a driving game, and a quiz game. Jeez, no way the app store has anything like that.” Oof, and dead on. If Sony wants to pitch the PSP against the iPhone, and we are not sure why they would to begin with, touting the ability of their device and platform to play similar games at higher prices is not going to ring up with consumers.
Puns aside, Sony, what were you thinking?
Sony, what were you thinking? I mean its pretty sad you have to badmouth a platform that by now outsells you. Heck even the DSiXL outsells the PSP everywhere in the world besides Japan. Face it Sony, once the Nintendo 3DS comes out, the PSP will look like the NGAGE.
And besides, people who have the iPhone are “casual gamers”. They don’t want a full fledged deep game for $10 when they could get a simple time waster for $0.99.
Sony would be better off making the PSP-Android Phone.
First off, the rumoured Sony PSP phone sounds like a terrible idea. I have never met a phone that could play games up to the standard of a standalone handheld. If you want to make a portable console/wireless media device, do that, but don’t, for the love of god, design it to make calls.
Secondly, yeah, Sony not targeted only the wrong crowd but did it poorly, too. If I were Sony, I’d focus on the quality of games, the graphical fidelity, the connectivity and other multimedia functions. People who want a DS, want a DS; people who want an iPhone, want an iPhone. They are similar audiences, and the PSP wasn’t designed around them, so it’s a waste of time and money marketing towards them.
Sony should try developing a psp/phone device if they really want to compete with the iphone. That’s what I think and I bet a lot of guys would purchase this.
I do think Sony has a point there. Yes there are iPhone driving games and iPhone quiz games, but those games lack the quality, refinement, polish and controls that the PSP has. I stopped gaming on my iPhone after I tried and was horrified by the low quality and awful controls of most iPhone games. Even if an iPhone game has good controls, you’ll still obscure the screen with your fingers and get no tactile feedback telling you that your finger has again slipped off the touchpad.
Not to mention the kid has to whip out his separate flip style phone and do some T9-typing to send that hipster a message. Who wants to cary around two devices? That’s so… Sony.