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JustBeingReal on 26 September 2015
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Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
Scisca said:


I think the only way a new handheld could work is if it was a PS4 Portable. The most important thing being it would have to share the same library of games. They'd have to work on the handheld out of the box - without any sort of extra work put in by the devs. Also all games would have to be cross-buy on PSN. It would be acceptable for it to somehow scale the graphics down a bit, but the previous point would have to stand - everything works. I don't believe a handheld with its own unique library is possible or viable at all in this market.

Remote Play invalidates this. Assume for a minute that this PS4 portable could exist, to beat out remote play, a free app, so it costs 0$, it would at the very least need to store these games on an HDD, which is anywhere from 50-100$ in terms of price to scale so to speak, 500gb to 1tb a very rough estimate. It's already 100$ more expensive than the free app, and we don't even have a screen, gpu, or cpu yet.

The App may be free, but the use of mobile data isn't, also the costs to rent games through PS Now are also not free.

A dedicated handheld is a one off cost for the platform, then the costs of each game, as I said in my other reply to you said handheld gets support from a pool of developers that are capable of making a much better experience than the freebie titles that get given away and people may pay the odd bit here and there to cheat their way through multiple repetitive levels of a freemium title.

Now of course there's the odd game made by indies or a dedicated App game developer that may be good, but those are few and far between and certainly not on the same level as a developer that has been making awesome experiences for years.

Remote play doesn't invalidate a thing, it's one area of the market, certainly not the entire thing, there's also the issue that remote play has latency issues and cannot provide a latency free experience of local hardware inside of a device.

 

There's a place for everything in this modern world and to ignore something just because is pretty silly IMO.