PS Vita and Sony Walkman designer Takashi Sogabe has said that he'd like future designs of Vita to be thinner.
He also said he'd have preferred to have used metal rather than plastic when developing the system.
"Speaking not only about the PS Vita, we always have a battle between engineers and designers. The original design of the PS Vita, for example, was very much thinner than the current retail product," he said speaking at Sony Computer Entertainment Japanese HQ last month. "From a designer's point of view, thinner is better-looking, but the engineers wanted to put all the features in.
"Maybe it will become thinner in the future, but the engineers would have to come up with a means to do that. The main effort for me was to make this product happen. The buttons and analogue sticks were perhaps not in the best position from a design point of view, but we felt they were the best solution from a publisher's point of view.
"As a designer, I wanted to use metal rather than plastic," he added, "but because there are a lot of antennae in the body, we couldn't use metal."
You can check out the full interview here.
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