Has a window opened for a new Playstation handheld?

[KBG29]

SpokenTruth said:

KBG29 said:

It will definitly be possible in a Vita sized handheld/phone hybrid or iPhone Plus/Galaxy Note sized slab phone with 7nm. The current slim already cut power almost in half going from 28nm to 14nm. Getting rid of the Blu-ray Drive and swapping the HDD for Flash will save a good amount of power. Of course adding in 4G LTE will ad some back into the mix, it won't be enough to make a big issue. 

All said and done, they can easily make a device that falls into the power envolope of current high end phones and tablets. The battery life for gaming would only be about 2 - 4 hours, but as a phone it could last the day in low power mode, with light gaming. Now days I see so many people plugged in or using USB battery packs, that I honestly don't think battery life would be to big of concern, just like I think Switch will be fine.

Sony has the tech, and the know how, it is just a matter of whether they want to grow their position in the market, or continue to shrink. As a Sony fan, and investor, I hope that they decide to kill off Xperia, and make tablets/phones around PS4, and massivly grow their userbase, and the revenue and profits from PSN.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-hands-on-with-the-playstation-4-slim-cuh-2000

Switch is expected to be ~15 watts with active cooling.   14nm to 7nm is not going to bring 60+ watts down to sub 10 watts (for passive cooling).

I just don't see it needing to go that low. At 20 - 30 watts with a 4000mAH battery it would do just fine for light to mkderate gaming. It would not be tiny like the current smartphones, your looking at something at least an inch longer and twice as thick as an iPhone 7 Plus with the Handheld/Phone hybrid, and something about the size of a iPhone 7, but again twice as thick for a slab version.

For a low power mode to run basic opperations, they can easily sit in the 5 to 10 watt territory. They don't have to have all 8 CPU cores and all 18 GPU cores active all the time. This this chipset could easily be made to last more than a day for basic phone calls, web browsing, texting, music, etc., between AMD and Sony they have the tech and the know how.

I know some will say it is too big, but I where Levi 30/32 slim cut jeans, and I have no problem fitting an OG 3G PS Vita and an Xperia Z in one pocket. Phones don't need to be as small as the iPhone. With full access to all PS4 titles, and PSN services I think a large group of people would be prefectly happy with a phone the same size or ever so slightly bigger than the OG Vita.