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

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EricHiggin said:

HoangNhatAnh said:

Yeah, combine that with $250 portable then it for sure will be more expensive than $300 if they want indie games too. Also, Sony can't compress game like Nintendo to have much smaller data size than from disk to SD card. In 2020, New Switch with new Tegra chip can come out with Pokemon so good luck to that. I still can't understand how ps5 will come out in 2020 with $400 price but PS4/5 portable is only $250 at the same time. Not even Apple or Nvidia can do that. AMD have never ever make the top mobile chip but in 2020 they can make ps5 portable chip cost $250 because you said so. WOW. And the word "probably, maybe" is a wishful thinking for now at best

The $250 is more so based on using mostly existing PS4 internal hardware. A PS5 Ryzen based unit would likely be more expensive, but not necessarily all that much more. A PS4 SS around 2019 should only cost $199 max, and the portable would only need a screen and battery on top of that, so $250 should easily be doable for the entire handheld and dock. $300 worst case scenario if they were to launch it with a more than reasonable amount of storage. There also would be nothing stopping PS from subsidizing the hybrid $50 to $100 at retail if they feel that's necessary to compete.

Switch also requires micro SD for expansion storage for extra games, and online isn't free, so it's clearly much more expensive than $300 as well. Apparently PS doesn't have the tech to compress as well as Nin does, but there's no saying someone else doesn't, that PS could pay to use. However, Vita game file sizes aren't that large though, like Killzone is 4.0GB and Uncharted is 3.5GB, while Zelda on Switch is 13.5GB. The majority of Vita games look to be around 1.0GB on average. Nin's games also don't tend to have the same level of assets that AAA games have, which allows Nin's games to have smaller file sizes in general.

PS5 costing $400 is a strong guess based on the massive success of the PS4 and much lesser sales of XB1, but we don't know what the cost of it is actually going to be. For all we know it ends up $500, assuming XB2 is $500 since XB seems to be stuck on that price. Maybe PS decides to have a $350-$400 PS5 hybrid and a standard dedicated 4k PS5 home console for $500. I said it "should" be possible based on AMD's newest tech, I never said it was guaranteed to happen, and you have the prices mixed up between different potential portable hardware. "Probably, maybe" seems to fit quite well since it's a post about "if" PS makes a Switch, and "if" it could succeed.

All esle is feasable, exept for one huge part: power consumption. The ps4 is a piwer guzzler compared to the switch. The original ps4 uses 89 watts. The slim uses 45 or so. But the switch uses a measily 5 watts if you don't factor its screen, while playing games. And the switch has a pretty big bettery if you are not going for stuff like apple's modular, form fitting batteries which cost a ton to make.

 

Storage space is also an issue but we all knew that. Switch can only fit 2? A ps4p with 128 gigs woyld barely be able to fit 1 if at all!