Right, do we think a PS4 Portable is coming?

[EricHiggin]

collint0101 said:
Would a portable PS4 even be possible from a technical perspective? Like even ignoring the issue with power is it possible to shrink the PS4 architecture down to a handheld? I feel like they would end up with a system that would still require a dedicated ports from the PS4 as opposed to playing it's entire library right out the gate like the standard PS4 or the pro so it would be less of a portable PS4 and more so a psp3

Something like this.

A PS4P would need to launch late 2019 at the latest to remain relevant and not be overshadowed by PS5 or a Switch 2. The odds of PS being able to cram a PS4 into a Switch like shell, and have more than an hour battery life would be next to impossible. They would have to change the hardware design somewhat, or throttle everything back, maybe both. You could expect the system to have 500GF to 1TF of performance, not 1.84TF. This would also more than likely lead to patches or ports for PS4P games. Fairly minor, and fairly easy, but more work again even after the extra work that goes into the Pro patches. Work that could be going into PS4/Pro games, or even PS5 games.

I wonder if PS never planned for a PS4P like device, would they maybe try to make PS5 games super scalable so there could be a PS5P along with the PS5 and PS5 Pro? The portable would be super weak in comparison to the PS5, so I'm not sure if that's doable without holding back the console version of a game.