New PlayStation Handheld Announcement Coming At PlayStation Meeting (RUMOUR)

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setsunatenshi said:

gooch_destroyer said:

I have one. Sony hasn't done enough for it. 

I could pinpoint specific mistakes like the proprietary mem cards andlack of L2/R2, but I'm quite happy with my Vita and own it since the day of release.

Going forward, if they could solve these 2 issues, plus boost the performance in a way it could play the full PS3 digital library, I'm sure it would be extremelly successful.

If, and that's a pretty damn big if, they have a solution to unify their library across Neo, regular PS4 and a future handhelf (obviously at lower specs) for digital games, that would be monumental. They would have to make sure there is easy scalability between all devices for games going forward.

That would come with a pretty big price tag, more in line with the cost of a premium phone than with a console and probably would need to be advertised as such. I say they are crazy enough to give it a shot :)

I absolutly believe they will make another handheld in the future, and that a PlayStation Mobile line of produts will replace the Xperia line. There have been to many rumblings from Kaz about such a thing for it not to eventually happen. The only question now is when.

A much as I would love for them to have come up with a way to make all PS4 games playable at 720p on a mobile, I just don't quite think the tech is there yet. So I think we won't see a new handheld tell 2018 with the 7nm FinFET chips.

However, they may have decidied that they are ready to jump in to the market ASAP, and the are going to be happy with something like 540p on a mobile device, but upscaled to a 5" 1080p display on the phone, or a 7" display on the tablet. If this is the case then they cold have a major revision in 2019 to a device that could handle 1080p gaming on the go. 

Obviously only time will tell. I have been PS only since PS4 came out, but the Vita is starting to be imposible to use as a phone. If they were to come out with a PS Phone right now it would be perfect timing for me.