Should Sony make a PS4 portable? And would you buy it?

[RJ_Sizzle]

Soundwave said:

RJ_Sizzle said:

What market would they be cannibalizing? This device would still be a PS4, just in handheld form. It would play everything in the PS4 library. It would just be another iteration of the console, if they could be able to do it. It would be an idea that could extend the life of the console for some time if they acted on it within the next couple of years.

What you're describing is impossible. 

You cannot get a PS4 with the same literal architecture down into a portable form factor with anything resembling acceptable battery life. 

Sony could have a PS4-tier mobile 3 or 4 years from now but it would have to be built from scratch using mobile components and as such would be incompatible with the existing PS4 library. 

Good luck with mobile memory bandwidth of 140GB/sec anytime soon either. 

Moores law exists for a reason. It wouldn't have to be literal. There could be conponents that emulate what functions are supposed to do to get the games running. Architecture changes. No one thought they'd be playing a PS2 on something the size of a PS2 slim either. That's not any kind of barrier to play the games, its just, would they want to and how much is it worth to them to do so.