Is PSP3/Vita 2 actually a thing?

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JRPGfan said:

The switch proves its viable. (handheld + dock)
I could see sony doing a simular product, that plays PS4 games at like half the resolution.
So its like a handheld PS4, just it renders everything at lower res.

Maybe with 7nm and latest technology it becomes possible.
They would need to stick with normal microSD cards though, and make a tool that easily translates any PS4 game into a PS4P one (runing at smaller resolution).

 

I think instead of calling it a PSP3 or Vita 2, they should call it a PS4P.

The problems is that Switch was designed with that in mind. So it uses cartridges with just a few GB. PS4 games are easily around 50GB. And they have huge patches. I've just reinstalled Star Wars: BF since the season pass is free now and it greeted me with a 20GB patch.

Since we don't have any kind of cartridge this big, a PS4P would need storage enough to keep at least a few games, so I would say that you would either need a 128/256GB internal memory or people would have to buy big SD cards. Ok, a 128 GB MicroSD is around 45 bucks, so they could bundle one of those.

Sony would also have to figure it out a way to let people use their physical media with the PS4P. I doubt they would put a BR drive on it, so they would have to do some kind of method to allow you to registrate a physical disc with a PS4P unit.

It's not impossible if they manage to create a APU that's around half the power of the current PS4 (but with the same CPU) but scaled down to use less than 10 watts, that is normally the maximum TDP for a tablet form-factor.