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

[EricHiggin]

HoangNhatAnh said:

EricHiggin said:

I wasn't aware that you were voted speaker for all that is not PS. What title does this give you? Does it pay well? Ok, lets assume based on your best case scenario, that the handheld only has 500GB internal storage, and that some AAA games are around 100GB, with no compression or downgrades whatsoever. What is wrong with being able to have 5 AAA games on the stock storage at one time? How acceptable is it for a company to be able to say to its customers, you can have 5 AAA games at this base price, but for another $50 to $100, a micro SD card will get you another 3 or 4 AAA games. If you have a mixed batch on the unit, you can have up to 25 games base, and 40 with expandable storage. If you play nothing but indie games, you can have 100 games on stock storage. How many AAA games need to be able to fit on the stock storage? PS4 must have sold at least 30M - 40M, 500GB models before they came out with the optional 1TB model, so why wasn't the PS4 DOA, and why was it, and still is, thriving?

PS4 is a home console that use 60GB blu ray disc and 500GB storage with 1 TB or even 2 TB hard drive if you want, now compare it to a handheld with digital only, well well ... You forget it is digital only mean you can't bring any indie games with you if you already have 5 big AAA games. And nope, 5 AAA games won't never ever for free, you have to purchase it even at very cheap price. Majority gamers prefer physical to digital unless they are gamers who love the method free to play games on phone only. Another micro SD card for 3 or 4 AAA games? Let say each game is only around 70 GB, well, you need at least a 256GB card and that cost like $170-$180 in sale. Many people play ps4 who love both AAA and indie games, AAA using physical and indie are digital. One thing: game on ps4 have way higher graphic settings and resolution mean way bigger file size than Nintendo one. The customers who buy a ps4/5 portable only for indie mostly are handheld gamers and i'm very sorry to say this but at least 85% Sony gamers are the ones who love gaming on big screen with the most great graphic possible they could get. Good luck to sell a portable to them. Don't try to compare a portable digital only to a traditional home console with both digital and physical. It seems you clearly ignore all people here who replied to you outside me

So what your saying is Switch and PS portable don't/wouldn't have expandable storage, and only consoles have that option? I vaguely remember that being mentioned already once or twice or even more. If they do have expandable storage, your saying if you have 5 AAA games on the unit, and 4 AAA games on the card, that you can't have a second card on hand to swap out that has another 4 AAA games on it? Sounds a lot like having extra carts with you while on the go does it not? Carts that cost $50 to $100 each that can't be rewritten, ever. Who said anything about free AAA games? I don't see the major difference if the game is physically on one cart or one of a few games on a large card. Heck if you want you can buy lots of smaller cards and put one game, dlc and all, on each card. Your using card prices that exist right now, for a product that wouldn't be available for two to three years yet? Just because 85% may prefer physical and big screen gaming, doesn't also mean they wouldn't prefer to have the option to take those same games with the best graphics they can be on the go as well. Are you also saying that only PS fans will buy it, and that Nin, XB, mobile, or casuals in general won't buy it at all? From what I've seen, a large amount are either going digital, or would go digital if it was necessary to make a product happen. Fewer and fewer are physical only, and I bet even fewer would require the game itself out of box, instead of a card with the multiple games on it. Considering Switch isn't 100% purely digital or physical either in some cases, with it being both handheld and console, doesn't that basically make it a paradox?