The only possible competition here, is for the casuals. Nintendo and Sony don't need to compete with smartphones over real gamers.

TBM thank you. Seriously. I have such a hardtime grasping how people think that the experiences are equivalent. I will not lie a turnbased RPG or SRPG could work very well with a touchscreen. For any other genre other that puzzles and turnbased games the phone falls on its face. Controls are compromised for all games that require accuracy. The size of your hands and other variables just muck up everything. I love to have a phone for talking and mild surfing. I love dedicated handhelds. I just hope that Sony will discount games like high stakes, lumines, pool and darts. Believe it or not they will sell just aswell or more on a portable than a console. I hope that Nintendo puts there minigames in with their remakes and new titles like poker as Mario 64NDS. Why the industry wants Apple and Android to take over gaming is beyond me? They have the phone sector locked up. I might just get an Iphone5. But, it is not for gaming but a music, mild surfing and telephone calls only.

any product is against any product now a days. every corporation is trying to get every ones time, money and effort.

It would be good if the PSV is that type of mobile convergence machine that can do everything smart phones and tablets....yes even telephony.

@pain777whatever:

If you think touch falls on its face outside of turn based and puzzle games. Then why like the vita? It's biggest gimmic is a touch screen on the front and a touch pad on the rear. At any rate you are wrong touch screens have no problems emulating analog sticks, buttons, sliders, and a bunch of shit you dont find on controllers. Please go to you tube and search jazzmutant lemur. Not to say I don't prefer a controller but your logic isnt sound.

You missed the point.
You're speaking of touchscreen ONLY.
A flat surface just doesn't feel the same as actual buttons and analog controls.

There's still a lot of games, exclusive or otherwise, missing from smartphones.
A gamer who wants a gaming handheld won't buy a phone.
No one buys phones to play games. It's always a secondary feature.
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The PS Vita has a touchscreen/pad AND REAL CONTROLS such as dual analog sticks, face buttons and D-pad.
Emulate all that!

Hardly a "gimmick" if it can be used effectively.