setsunatenshi said:
in other words, fantasy there's zero indication Sony wants to even be in that market and as I tried to debunk plenty of times during the Switch (NX) fantasy stage, there's no way to actually create a portable device (akin to the switch) with anywhere near the power to even touch the ps4, much less the future ps5. also good luck with an x86 architecture with low enough tdp to even make the handheld form factor a physical reality |
Surely impossible now, very unlikely next year, but how about 2020? Don't forget that only the CPU should provide almost the same computing power also in undocked mode, while the GPU would run at a power considerably lower than in docked mode. They could even include mobile and PC GPU cores and switch between them, the APU would cost more, but the hybrid model would be obviously priced higher than the base home-only one.
About Sony's will, who knows? Why shouldn't it want to take some portable market share back if it were possible? Obviously this would be viable if the market offered the needed power anyway, investing what's needed to make such devices just for PS5 would be a suicide. Thus it's just matter of launch date, for what regards feasibility. So yes, right now it's abstract reasoning, fantasy if you're just so eager to quickly dismiss it, but if feasibility arrives in time for next gen, why not? BTW it also depends on what Sony will be able to know about MS plans: if they include a hybrid, then it would be very likely that Sony wouldn't want to be the only one left without one. But neither Sony nor MS will let the competitors know it too early, so about this issue it will be a gamble for both, and this, again, makes not just feasibility, but also viability the decisive factors.
