Vita used cards.

But another big problem is that a portable PS5 won't be feasible. If fitting such a chipset into a small case would be possible to begin with, you'd still get the problem of overheating, plus the problem of battery life.

Putting out a portable PS4 after 2020 is at least within the realm of being a realistic possibility, but that in turn means that Sony would be competing with old games against Nintendo's latest and greatest. That wouldn't hamper Switch sales.

Then you have to consider that Sony is reliant on AAA third parties, but those companies loathe handhelds. You can't expect more than token efforts from them and the games would take on the form that we can see currently on Switch where physical games aren't actual physical games. Or the games could be like Call of Duty: Declassified which was laughably bad.

All things considered, it's extremely unlikely that any company will be enticed to directly compete with Switch because that would mean that they have to compete with Nintendo on the portable front and so far Nintendo has killed off all competitors that dared to challenge them.

Switch already does outperform PS4 on a weekly basis.

Question is when will Switch outsell PS4? Probably week 43-44, in the midst of holidays.

Rol, You know I'm not talking about putting the same chipset of PS5 on a portable, because if whatever PS5 have could be portable then PS5 would be to weak.

I'm talking about making a HW that is compatible in technology that with design philosophy from the begining all games can run on it on smaller resolution, IQ, etc.

If companies can make SW that scale back naturally from docked to undocked and that adapt to different models of cellphones and PCs they can make one that play on 2 HW with fixed capacity.

4K an High on PS5, 1080p on Medium for Portable already give some breath room for the HW.

PSP was fairly sucessful Rol, so it isn't impossible to compete. And being totally compatible already nulify any need of the devs to be really worried with portable, as long as they do the dialback that covers it, they are already doing it for PS4 and Pro

PSP was successful due to factors like piracy though the biggest killer app for PSP wasn't any game it was home brew which is why software sales in the west were dreadful as people would rip games put them on memsticks and sell them on ebay with the homebrew software, PS1 games like FF7 were running on PSP years before any official announcement and release. In the end it wasn't competing on its own merits but an exploit people were using this is a big reason Vita fell off so hard because Vita ended up having the same problems competing only this time the was no homebrew scene to save it

PSP was successful due to factors like piracy though the biggest killer app for PSP wasn't any game it was home brew which is why software sales in the west were dreadful as people would rip games put them on memsticks and sell them on ebay with the homebrew software, PS1 games like FF7 were running on PSP years before any official announcement and release. In the end it wasn't competing on its own merits but an exploit people were using this is a big reason Vita fell off so hard because Vita ended up having the same problems competing only this time the was no homebrew scene to save it

Those 80M pirates that bought almost 4 games per HW... and DS also had piracy.

I... don't think PSP was successful due to being a piracy tool. That's undermining Sony's merit.

Software-wise it wasn't the most bountiful handheld (outside of Japan) - but it was new, fresh and was a change from Nintendo's offering.

DS piracy was not even close to PSP's level and Nintendo were actively fighting it as well, 4 games per hardware isn't exactly something to write home about either.

Only merit Sony had with the PSP was that it woke Nintendo up to possible competition as far as handling the PSP goes they did an aweful job with it the platform was carried entirely by the homebrew scene in the west as Sony had little drive to push the PSP this carried over to the Vita only the latter had no homebrew to save it. Software not being bountiful highlights what I mean, I owned a PSP from launch as well the platform after a year for many western owners was used for emulation and such.

So 3DS selling less than 5 games per HW and DS selling less than 6 is equally bad right?

Explain to me a platform that fighted piracy so much better and had several pokemon ending only 2 games ahead of PSP, and 3DS just 1 is bad right?