If Sony makes a "Playstation Switch" could it succeed?

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TheBraveGallade said:

That would only last like, 30 minuetes while gaming.

People forget how much shorter battery life gets when playing games... my macbook pro, which lasts 12 hours web brousing and is rated 10 hours, lasts barely 2 hours gaming. And thats just an i5, 8gb ram and no graphics card.

 

Also ninty has pokemon which has never made much of an impact as console but has influence greater than any other game on handheld. Can sony beat THAT, in combo with the full force of ninty first party never seen since the 80's, and a foregone dominance in japan? I don't think so.

These Ryzen Mobile chips are capable of this right now on 14nm. Moving to 7nm they will be even more powerful and efficient.

As far as Sony hanging with the full force of Nintendo, I am pretty sure they have already proved they can for the past 25 years. I am sure Switch will do amazing with every future Nintendo game landing on the platform. However, I don't think it is a foregone conlusion that they will dominate the industry now. We have never even seen what a Sony Portable can do with even one mainline AAA Sony title, let alone a Handheld which shares the entire library with its Home counterpart.

At the end of the day though, I think people are looking into this to competitively. If Sony made a Switch like PS5, and no Stationary Home console, I still argue that they would sell very well, and perhaps even better than the Switch.That said, I can not see Sony adandoning the high end gaming market. I only see them doing a Switch/Portable/Phone, if complements their Core Stationary Home platform.

In the case where they make a Switch that sits alongside the Home unit, while using the same APU tech, the Same OS, and the same Software/Services, they don't have to light the world on fire sales wise for it to be a successful product. They could only move 5 million a year, and it would still be a solid product, because unlike the Vita or WiiU, it is not a seperate platform, requiring seperate resources for OS, Software, and Service development. 

When you have a platform that is 100 Million users strong, you can start to add products to that platform that are not required to set the world on fire. That is why a PS4 Switch, PS4, Portable, or PS4 Phone would succeed. It doesn't have to become the numer one selling device in the market, because it is part of a larger platform, and shares all resources. I don't know how better to put it, that this is nothing like Windows Phone, PlayStation Vita, or Nintendo WiiU, and because it is not its own platform, it would not sufer their fate.