Nintendo has sounded its concerns more than once that the greatest threat to the success of its 3DS is the low price point of mobile games. Now Sony is echoing those concerns for its upcoming NGP.
"The problem is the same. We are dealing with the same issue that Nintendo is," Sony's worldwide studios head Shuhei Yoshida said.
"It's up to content publishers, including ourselves, to show people that this is worth £25 or £30 as opposed to 59p. You cannot release the same content that you put on the iPhone for a dollar on to NGP or some other consoles and expect people to pay 20 times that."
But that doesn't mean that mobile games can compete with NGP's in terms of quality or gameplay, Yoshida reiterated.
"There's no one clear competitor in terms of what NGP offers," he said. "NGP's going to establish itself as the unique thing that people want to have. NGP cannot be placed against smartphones. You can't make phone calls on it and it's too big to fit into your pocket."
