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

[EricHiggin]

HoangNhatAnh said:

KBG29 said:
I just wanted to chime in on the storage format.

Digital is closing in of 50% market share on PS4 right now. If PS4 Portable comes out in 2019, digital would likely be close to 60% of all new game purchases. I believe that the any portablized PS4 or other furture PlayStation Mobile/Portable/Switch should be a digital only device.

The purpose of the device to me would be to get people using the PlayStation Store more, by driving up the time people are present in the ecosystem, and increasing the value of the content by offering it across more form factors.

Obviously there would be people that would absolutely refuse a product without physical formats, but if the majority has moved to digital, that is the direction things should take. I could even see Sony picking up sales by people selling off their physical games and replacing them with digital titles. I did this myself on PS3 for certain titles I wanted in my collection, and I know others that have done the same during this gen. Having the added value of being able to play the digital copy at home and on the go would drive this even more.

Solid State Storage is going to be seeing major increases in capacity, and major drops in price. You can pick up a 500GB M.2 SATAIII drive right now for $149.99. By the end of 2019, that price will be dramatically cheaper at the consumer level, and would be even less for Sony. Sony could move the PS4 Super Slim to 500GB of M.2 or Embbed Flash on the board, making it much smaller and cheaper to produce. With all PS4's supporting external storage, this is even more logical than the 12GB PS3 Super Slims. This would make the PS4 Super Slim and PS4 Switch even more related, and again drive down R&D cost. It would also speed up every aspect of the system, which is great for a portable unit.

As I am typing this, I am starting to wonder if the PS4 Super Slim itself won't just end up being the PlayStation Switch. Or at least come in two form factors. One with a Blu-ray drive, and one with a dock and no Blu-ray drive.

Having a Switch like Super Slim, docking, and swapping out games to the internal memory from an extrenal drive would be super easy. If you had an external SSD, the transfers would be extreamly fast.

That sounds pretty damn plausible to me. At the very least it is definitly an option.

If Switch fail, all these assumes that Sony copy Nintendo to make a hybrid won't happen, right? And Nintendo own Japan like Sony own Europe. In 2020, New Switch can come out with new Pokemon, counter it by what?

If Switch fails then Pokemon doesn't matter to PS.