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PlayStation are working on a “Portable PS5″… if the rumors are true, and they might be. but how does that compete with the Nintendo Switch 2 (or whatever it really gets called, and the also rumoured Handheld Xbox?
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If it comes out, and is backwards compatible with PS4 games, I'll buy one, at that point it wouldn't affect me if it's successful or not. Playing the more niche PS4 exclusives (that will never ever ever get a PC port (Dreams, Gravity Rush 1+2, tearaway, etc)) on the go sounds great. If it doesn't play PS4 games I'm not interested.
Not to ramble too much but yeah, Sony really left fans with my kind of taste behind, one of the reasons I moved on to PC.
I dont care if it fails im buying one, the vita is one of my alltime favorite emulation machines and i will continue to do so on this badboy eventually
That PS5 handheld is probably at least 4 years away if PlayStation fans are lucky, that's a pretty big head start for the Nintendo Switch 2.
and Microsoft will probably release their handheld around the same time as that Sony handheld.
and the Steam deck and the rog ally are probably going to sell a lot in those 4 years too, and maybe they'll both get a New stronger model.
It's one thing to have tough competition, but Nintendo has a 4 year head start maybe even more, and has the Switch 1 library as extra games, Microsoft is making exactly the same thing, for people who have a Steam deck or rog ally or any other PC handheld this console is useless.
I'm pretty sure Sony will eventually give up on this thing just like with the PS vita
I think the only way this works is if they unify their systems like Nintendo did make a ps6 handheld that will play the games at low settings with frame gen and upscaling and then offer a two types of dock a regular dock and a pro dock the pro dock would be like 500 plus bucks but would contain a high end GPU allowing those with the pro dock to get PC like performance blowing whatever xbox will offer out of the watter
Hmm, i think the main issue here is the steam deck, not Nintendo. If consumers want a simple portable they just go with Nintendo the reigning champ, but for everyone else that wants a more "advanced" machine they just go with the Deck or a deck-like derivative. I loved the psp and the vita but i just dont see a market for a new Playstation portable. Sony are to stubborn to make a open platform like deck and just does not have the library to compete with Nintendo in the closed system market.
Id love to see it but i highly doubt they would risk it given they are about to finish off xbox as a real direct competitor, and they know Nintendo is not a direct competitor and hasnt been since really the gamecube days. The are secure as the "king of the hill" right now.
Oh, and im a pc guy all the way. The last console i owned was a ps3, so i dont even have a dog in this fight. Lol
Look, if it still has a physical media for the games, I'll probably buy it.
But if it's a full digital, handheld PC all the way. Fuck Sony.
Just release a handheld with the power of the PS4 with its own game library a 5"oled screen and 512GB storage for $299 it will sell like hot cakes 🎂
Just imagine it end up being another streaming device
A new PSP like system sounds really awesome in a vaccuum but i genuinly dont know what it could do differently to pull a broad audience. Nintendo has the casual audience and the Steamdeck is arguably the biggest bargain in gaming that can also play playstation games.
If the answer is to make smaller scale games like the PSP then I think thats just setting the system up for failure. All that said a PSP revival sounds cool but I have my doubts that it could be anything more than a novelty like the Vita
What people don’t realize is there is a market for handhelds… as long as those games are created for that in mind. I imagine people want interactive games that they can pick up and play and stop in a quick moment. Many of Sony’s titles are not that.
With that said, Sony has been struggling to even get games out for their current platform that haven’t been remasters or remakes.
These rumors make complete sense to me. No wonder PS5 has no games – they were getting ready for when it goes portable. Sony never does games for their portable systems. I'm a disgruntled Vita owner, and I even made the stupid decision back in the day to buy a PSP go. PSP had games but PSP go didn't because Sony didn't get them all on the PlayStation Store for go owners.
A less salty half-joke take: Between no disc drive on the PS5 Pro ($80 extra to add one) and now a potential PS5 Portable, Sony really really wants to say "F*** YOU, REBUY YOUR GAMES" to people like me who bought PS4 and PS5 games on disc. I'm fully expecting PS6 to be digital only.
Yeah I’m ok if the ps5 portable flops, the Vita was the GOAT in the homebrew/JRPG fan base, I’ve still got my vita, just found it yesterday, might charge it up and go back to some old classics
Plus the vita when modded can play PSP, GBA, SNES, and a whole bucket load of games and systems. Plus you can get one for a decent price on EBay or FB marketplace. Sony should just stick to consoles same as well with Microsoft
0:40 So… Steam and Asus can just go fuck themselves right?
I think if it has the ability to actually play some of your digital library and you are be able to swap out the fridge so to speak with things like PS4 or PS five games? There could be some competition for it, but the problem is if it’s anything like their VR or what they did with Vita in those last days. 🙁
We need exclusives as you mention
I so miss the PlayStation handheld systems. Loved my PSP and vita both equally to death. I so would love to see PlayStation come into the handheld market again soon in the upcoming future and see how they do again. I wouldn't mind hoping on board with buying a device yet again if it is true since I mainly play handheld mostly now with my SteamDeck these days having very little time to game on my gaming laptop these days due to school/improv/health life as such. Curious on how they will tackle the handheld market again this third time around. I also wouldn't mind seeing exclusive ps5 portable games come out for it as well.
The psp will always be the best and their best handheld
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