Why Has No One Made a Great Gaming Phone? 303
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.'"
Re:They did (Score:2, Informative)
Serious gamers? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:How 'bout the iPhone? (Score:2, Informative)
No d-pad. Instant gaming fail.
Re:Now your pockets are bulging (Score:4, Informative)
Phones work perfectly fine for 3-5 days battery
On standby, sure. But start gaming (3-d games, anyway) on them and you'll get 3-5 *hours* of battery life. And no phone that I'm aware of can last 3-5 days on a single charge if you're making five or six hours of calls every day, not to mention if you're an avid texter like my sister.
My iPhone loses half its battery idling overnight, because I have push e-mail enabled. Until that situation is remedied - until I can have push e-mail enabled for 3-5 days without a recharge and still be able to make regular calls during those 3-5 days - phones will not be an ideal platform for gaming.
Note that I merely mean they won't be ideal, not that we shouldn't try :)
Re:emulators (Score:2, Informative)
I've had an emulator on my phone for years, and its never much more than an "aha! look what it can do!" feature because of the interface. Those games are super twitchy, and without a decent dpad and properly spaced buttons you can forget getting anywhere with it. Touch pad? Thats even worse - if buttons on a keyboard can't do it right, how would one where you have to lift your finger or whatever to move the guy down the screen work?
Re:Wouldn't work (Score:3, Informative)