Nahh. After the vita, I have zero faith in them in being able to support their own platform if shit hits the fan.

I'm sure that, for a PS4P to be feasible, it would take two or three years more, and at that point Sony would rather just release a PS5. There's a reason the Switch is technically underpowered compared to its competitors, handheld parts are more expensive an generally less powerful than regular hardware.

The problem with a PS Portable device would be compatibility:

1) would it play PS4 games and at what resolution?!

2) how far would it be from a PS4 and PS4 Pro?

3) would you be able to use PS VR with it and to what extent?

4) will it be able to dock to a TV?

5) how well would it be priced next to an almost £250 PS4?

6) will it use SD cards or something else?


The only thing I can think of is Sony releasing a PS4 Mini that has no HD or a very small one for updates, OS and a bit to spare. Let it be digital only with the option to buy any third party SD cards and with external HDD support. When docked allow it to connect to PSVR for games, but movies are okay on the go and the mobile app. Release it at £200 with a bundled 1st party digital game or a collection of Indie games.

If you mean a literal portable PS4, that would be virtually impossible, even the newer slim PS4 model still consumes like 63 watts, which is 7 times too high of a power consumption. 

If you are talking about a portable device built with a new chips from mobile tech, yes by 2020 something in the realm of a PS4 would be feasible.

But you would be starting from 0 in software library as no PS4 game would natively run on that completely new architecture.

The other problem you would run into is Nintendo would very likely respond as Swtich is their main hardware line left.

And Nvidia could give Nintendo a chip of similar/better power than whatever Sony could get. And that chip would also be compatible with (by then) hundreds of Switch games too.

So it would be very easy for Nintendo to counter it. 

I would buy one

I would buy one

Can a portable with the power of the PS4 even be made? At least an affordable one that is. And I wonder if people would double dip with this device, or sales just switch from a PS4 to this device.

I dunno if I would buy this device myself. It would depend on the library of the system.

Yes, by 2020, 600GF-1 TFLOP (undocked) and 2 TFLOP (docked) should be doable (or close enough). 

The problem for Sony is they don't have any magical monopoly on mobile chips and they don't make any of these chips themselves. They'd likely have to use PowerVR (the same supplier for the Vita), but Nvidia could give Nintendo a similar or better chip, and thus Sony's tech advantage goes down the toilet fairly easily. 

Then the question becomes would Sony be willing to put their 100% into such a device while also working on Playstation 5/PSVR. My guess is no, so Nintendo would beat them fairly easily as we know they will put their 100% into the Switch. 

By the time the PS5 comes around, I imagine that'll be even more demanding hardware, which goes back to the question, will that iteration be able to be condensed into a portable device?

0 chance unless Sony unless wants to easily be beaten by Microsoft in home console power. PS5 will be a 80-100 watt device, that would last 10 minutes on a battery (and would be the size of a launch PS4).