Would you trust Sony enough to buy a PSP 3?

[KBG29]

Soundwave said:

KBG29 said:
I would only buy another mobile PlayStation device if it was part of the PS4 ecosystem, and it had 4G + Calling and Texting. A stand alone handheld platform is a terrible idea, and Sony doesn't have the man power to support it.

A mobilized version of the PS4 OS with Full support for PS4 Software, Apps, and Services would have a good chance at success as it would automatically be supported due to sharing the PS4 library and tech.


As for the rumor I think we will see an even more high end version of the PS4. I have predicted it since lanch. When Sony and MS went to X86 and Standard GPU tech, the writting was on the wall for a scalable ecosystem.

I expect new consoles nearly every year, with generational gaps coming once per decade if that. The tech world has changed and consoles have to change wih it or die. Sony and Nintendo have to adapt because games are their biggest business, they can not afford for consoles to die off.

I just don't buy it. 

You can't get 1 TFLOP+ (FP32) performance in a sub-15 watt power envelope (including your LCD display). 

Not yet. Maybe in 2-3 years. The die shrink new PS4 and XB1 Slim models at 16nm still consume 70 watts+ when running games. 

Not to mention memory bandwidth as a huge problem too ... the PS4 has 176GB/sec of bandwidth ... the best you can get in portable products right now is 50GB/sec. You can't just magically have PS4 games run with 1/3 the memory bandwidth even if you could by some miracle get a mobile processor that can run x86 code at 1.8 TFLOP. 

I agree with you. I do not expect a PS4 handheld/phone until 2019 - 2020 if they do it. The best they could do this year would be something in the form of a laptop. I think they could bring the power down to less the 50 Watts for base PS4 devices for this year.

Lke I said though, as far as this rumor is concerned I think we will more than likely see or hear about a higher end PS4 model that really pushes 4K and PSVR. Sony is competing with PC, Facebook, HTC, Smasung, Google, and others in the VR space. If they want to compete seriously they have to offer hardware that keeps them on pace. They have not been shy about the fact that they want to use VR as a platform to elevate them to the same status as Google, Apple, and Microsoft. Their plan is to turn PSVR and PS4 into the iPod/iPhone of this decade.