PlayStation Phone

[EvilKingStan]

(02-13-2013 04:11 AM)xperiaplay2someday Wrote:  I think regardless of the name the specs were just to lackluster at the time that only a select few were even interested.

If it came out as a dual core like the atrix did around the sametime then more people would of got it and the controller be a bonus, instead you had to want the controller and accept a mediocre specs in trade.

Also im not a fan of its apperance, id like a squarer, slimmer, and more higher end Sony look, instead its clearly designed by erricson who I heard wanted it.released.much more then Sony. Id like.something like this but with analog nubs
http://www.ubergizmo.com/wp-content/uplo...Play-2.jpg
I think a cutting edge phone with a look.comparable to.what the persons others choices.wouuld be then a lot more people would get interested in it...

I can definitely agree with that. I like the way my phone looks, but that concept image I have to say would have been better. Another thing I think kind of killed it was reviews from big names that gave the XPlay a lot more crap than it deserved. Yeah, it wasn't as powerful as some phones that came out at the same time, but it wasn't really badly under powered. Heck, it still runs everything I want it to now with great speed. Haven't had a problem yet. I have to conserve internal memory as much as possible but that's about it. I remember GameInformer, who had been putting out a bunch of articles getting people interested in the Play, completely trashed it when it came out, criticizing the lack of spare RAM as if the things the phone didn't have the ability to do anything more than make a phone call. There's a ton of people who read those articles, and the negative reviews from most places couldn't have helped things. I do agree with the article in that there's a huge lack of interest from Sony however. The Xperia Play made a huge impact on the smartphone world. Tons of game's on the Android Market started adding support for the Play's controls, it still remains unique with the gamepad, it drew copious amounts of attention from blogs and articles, and there are still a bunch of people who still use the phone, and people who cling to rumors of a successor to the Play. Sony surely knows about all the fan-attention for the Play, and it met sales expectation, (it didn't fail as many people thought) but Sony just isn't into the idea right now, nor were they ever. Nevertheless, I still love my Play, and hope to see a #2 someday.