It's not panic, I'm just saying if someone walks over and tries to eat the food off your plate when they already have their own full plate, sometimes it's appropriate to slap them upside the head. 

Agreed Sony won't make a PSP3. If they dare though, IMO Nintendo will go at them this time. No more Mr. Nice Guy. There's just a bunch of headaches Nintendo doesn't need like stupid Japanese developers deciding to split resources between the two platforms. 

Stay out Sony, go focus on PS5 and VR, you're not needed here. 

Look at the console.  It's basically a handheld device with the ability to plug into your TV.  People aren't going around holding a portable Wii U in their hands. 

To answer the OP,  no I wouldn't buy.  Not into handheld gaming.  The vita was bought for me as a present.  Never bought a handheld and never will. 

I wouldn't say no inmmediatly but at the same time I wouldn't buy it day 1. It would be a matter of waiting and see how sony supports it.

While it may be that, people aren't buying it to play it on the go. Without the TV out, the Switch would have tanked outside of Japan.

3DS has still sold a respectable number, it will end up selling more than the NES, SNES, and many other "successful" platforms, while being a budget/kids portable mainly and that sector has been hit very hard by mobile, so that shows Nintendo can still survive even in very harsh conditions. Switch wisely is a more premium product so it has more cover from the smartphone storm. 

Think of it like an evolution where an animal is suddenly thrust into harsh (lets say) winter conditions. Well the Vita just died straight up, 3DS suffered and had some painful experiences, but it's alive and doing alright. The offspring (Switch) has evolved to have greater protection against this new harsh environment. 

People are buying it for the dual functionality. That's the whole point. Console games on the go (no more 3DS type bite size experiences). 

I would only buy another mobile PlayStation device if it was part of the PS4 ecosystem, and it had 4G + Calling and Texting. A stand alone handheld platform is a terrible idea, and Sony doesn't have the man power to support it.

A mobilized version of the PS4 OS with Full support for PS4 Software, Apps, and Services would have a good chance at success as it would automatically be supported due to sharing the PS4 library and tech.


As for the rumor I think we will see an even more high end version of the PS4. I have predicted it since lanch. When Sony and MS went to X86 and Standard GPU tech, the writting was on the wall for a scalable ecosystem.

I expect new consoles nearly every year, with generational gaps coming once per decade if that. The tech world has changed and consoles have to change wih it or die. Sony and Nintendo have to adapt because games are their biggest business, they can not afford for consoles to die off.

I will stick to my PS4 for my main console experience and Switch for my main handheld experience.

I just don't buy it. 

You can't get 1 TFLOP+ (FP32) performance in a sub-15 watt power envelope (including your LCD display). 

Not yet. Maybe in 2-3 years. The die shrink new PS4 and XB1 Slim models at 16nm still consume 70 watts+ when running games. 

Not to mention memory bandwidth as a huge problem too ... the PS4 has 176GB/sec of bandwidth ... the best you can get in portable products right now is 50GB/sec. You can't just magically have PS4 games run with 1/3 the memory bandwidth even if you could by some miracle get a mobile processor that can run x86 code at 1.8 TFLOP. 

The 3DS sales have overperformed because of the many revisions and being a budget portable. Those are ideal conditions and not harsh as you put it. Not all parents would be buying a smartphone for their kids, it's much cheaper to buy 2 3DS than 1 smartphone afterall.

Also, I'm not sure I would call the SNES successful by modern standards. Would you call the PS4 successful if it tapped out at 40M?