EricHiggin said:
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. |
Remember the ps portable is 720p or even 1080p while vita is only 540p and in fact, how many games on vita that run on native resolution or majority is sub res ? Don't compared a SD portable to a HD, also, Sony game always take at least 30-40GB. To have best graphic on the system no way they compress it like Nintendo who doesn't care about cutting edge graphic or something like that. The ps portable you told me will exceed even Switch 2 power, because it is ps5 handheld, you think it will have small data size like Vita? Isn't you are one of those people who told me don't compare the new ps portable to vita? And why you compared vita size game to Switch? You know Switch came out this year and it is at least 10 times stronger than vita, right? If you compare data size, take a look at 3ds vs vita, none 3ds game go over 4GB while some games on vita is more than 4GB like Summon Night 6
