EricHiggin said:
I don't necessarily disagree with the handheld having phone options in it, even if there needs to be a base and 'Pro' model, with and without. The question is what price would PS charge for an all in one device like that, and will people pay whatever that price is? Switch is $300 already, plus PS may not want to price their dedicated phones based on the 'Pro' handheld. Since they didn't add 4k BD to PS4 or Pro, it makes me think they wouldn't want to do it with the handheld. That would mean having a dedicated PS phone, and that just get's extremely complicated based on the path they seem to be on. Not impossible, just way too many possibilities and what if's when the phone comes into play.
If it were really going to happen, I would say make it a PS5 product, BC or not. If PS could design the handheld similar to the 3DS, where the screen flips up, but also comes apart and can be used as just a phone, but when you attach it to the controller half, it becomes a handheld, plus a dock that the handheld plugs into for TV with DS4/5, and even a separate boost dock maybe for checkerboard/true 4k. That way the controller portion has x86 and just uses the phone as a display, and the phone is ARM but only plays typical phone games on it's own. Controller half would also have it's own battery. PS games could only be played in handheld mode or docked. The base model would basically have a dummy phone that was just a screen, and the 'Pro' model would have a full fledged phone. Maybe you can take the phone/screen off, and use it to play with a friend like Switch? The screen may be a little small for that though. Something like this, where phone and handheld are merged, because I just don't see a gaming phone on it's own taking off. This or a PS Switch in a 'Pro' model that has full phone functionality. I just don't know how many people would want to carry around something as large as a Switch all day for normal everyday communication, plus the more than likely constant charging.
A lot of ways they could go, but I see the Switch type device being only somewhat likely. The phone itself, very unlikely. A phone/handheld hybrid? Maybe, just maybe.
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