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

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HoangNhatAnh said:

Yeah, because all casual gamers who play games on phone suddenly spend $60 for PS phone games while they didn't even spend $5 for a game on phone, all they play are free to play games. But yeah, i believe it will happen because you said so

So gamers don't own phones? Or only casuals would buy a Handheld Form Factor Phone? I am not getting where you are coming from.

How do I word "All Games, Play on All Devices, Across Any Given Platform" so that people understand it. 

You are not buying a $60 Phone game that you can play on your console. You are not buying a $60 console game you can play on your Phone. You are buying a Free, to $60 game, that plays on any device, under the ecosystem you choose to buy from. 

That is they way all software is going. Games can scale from as lower, or lower than 360p/30fps, all the way to 8K/60fps or higher. Every modern game engine is built for scalability, even Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony 1st party tools and engines are built this way. The engines and tool sets are built to develope titles across X86, ARM, Power PC and GeForce, Radeon, Adreno with 2GB of RAM or 20GB, with HDD or SSD, with Cartriges or Discs, and thousands, and thousands of other variations of hardware. The days of super custom hardware, and crazy to the metal development techniques are over.

Scalability within any given Platform, especially if all devices are built around the same architecture, is extreamly simple in the context of game development. That is why having a Watch, a Phone, and Handheld, a Tablet, a Car Audio Deck, a Speaker, a Console, a Computer, a TV, and countless other items in an ecosystem is becoming a reality. 

It doesn't stop on the software side either. The two biggest focuses of CPU and GPU development are Power Per Watt and Scalability. Again, making a wide range of products, running the same apps, games, and services easier, and more viable than ever.

 

Every company is putting every ounce of effort they can into making your content more valuable, and accessable. Platform holders, like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo want you to be able access your content anywhere you go, at whatever level you want, because they want you to remain in their ecosystem as long and as often as possible. They are fighting to make your life easier, and to do it in the simplist and most affordable way possible. Trust me, it is a good thing, you don't have to be scared.