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

[EricHiggin]

HoangNhatAnh said:

EricHiggin said:

So basically Nin goes ahead and continues to create Pokemon games like usual on either new Nin devices or non PS devices and PS collects 66% of the profits for doing absolutely nothing? That's an even better deal for PS and way less work.

Switch is using a mobile chip you say? Well luckily PS4 is using a mobile chip as well. X4 in 2020 you say? What about Ryzen 9820u SuperTeraFlopaLastaRippa APU in 2020 that has 8hr battery life, all for only $300?

When run ps4 games, the battery consumed a lot more electric than typical smartphone games, same case as Switch, good luck with 8 hours only. And even at $300 it is only the chip, the buttons and analogs are free? And Pokemon can't go to PS without Nintendo allow it so nope, Donkey Kong money don't go to Microsoft because they own Rare either. What media format it will use? Disc or cart? Digital only is doa

8 hours only? Switch is only 6 hours tops. How much power does X1 use in Nvidia Shield console format and how much heat does it produce? So $300 is too expensive but $250 is not, because Switch is $300. PS is going to love all that free cash, and would probably use it to create an even better handheld/hybrid. Digital only is DOA, but putting half or two thirds the game on the cart and forcing you to download the rest is totally different and just fine, especially once your lack of internal storage is full and you have to buy expansion storage on top of that?

KBG29 said:

HoangNhatAnh said: 

 And don't tell me it is digital only or it will have the same fate as PSP Go

When somewhere between 60 and 70% of all games being sold are digital in 2019/2020, I highly doubt a digital only Portable PS4 is going to get a lot of backlash. Sure you will have the vocal few on Youtube, Twitter, etc., but your average consumer that already buys digital would love having their entire library available on a PS4 Switch/Portable/Phone. By the mid 2020's physical games will likely be in the 10 - 15% range, and continue to hold that niche space from there on out.

As for the chip. Are you just choosing to ignore the Ryzen Mobile APU line? 

Everything AMD is doing going forward is focused on Performance Per Watt and Scalability. It is more likely than not that Nvidia Mobile (Terga/ARM CPU & Geforce GPU) and AMD Mobile (Ryzen Mobile/X86 CPU & Radeon GPU) will continue in lock step. 

I think they may be color blind to red/orange. They seem to acknowledge the PS4 APU as well as anything Nvidia, in which case both had green color scheme's back then, but now that AMD is red/orange, they don't seem pick up on Ryzen.