Has a window opened for a new Playstation handheld?

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DroidKnight said:

I stayed up late last night to watch the Nintendo Switch event and was really looking foward to it.  Though the presentation seemed a bit clumsy, I liked many of the games that were shown.  The game where you would quickdraw with an opponent seemed gimicky to me.  The overall concept of having a handheld device as versitile as the Switch is appealing in theory; practical though?

The pricepoint; unfortunatly, is what is going to shy me away for now.  I had plans to pre-order 2 for me and my son and can't seem to justify it now.  $299.00 + $59.99 for a game and how much for additional memory?  32GB's? Really?  I'm still going to hold out for a price drop.

Perhaps I went in expecting to much and set myself up for a fall.  

I since an opening here where Playstation could sneak in a more powerful handheld gaming device (without all the bells and whistles) at a more appealing price and gain back consumers it lost with the PS Vita.

This is my 1st thread...please be gentle popping my cherry.

I think there is a reason Nintendo collapsed its hardware down to one product, it found it too difficult to support 2 pieces of hardware. Well and Wii U sold horribly, but it's utter horrible sales is partly because of major software droughts. While there might be space in the market for a 2nd handheld console I think it would be a bad move for Sony to do it. But I think in the main prospective hardware makers are probably seeing that handheld consoles are a high risk proposition because phone and tablet handheld gaming are so prevalent, and Nintendo has been the king of handheld forever, that trying to eek out a profitable market niche would be very hard.

PSP succeeded because mobile gaming wasn't a thing, so there was space for PSP. Vita may have succeeded with better game support, but it was kinda doomed to fall far short of PSP simply because gaming on the go had moved on.