| TranceformerFX said: PlayStation would lose ALOT of their fanbase if they tried to mimic the Switch. And why should they? It's barely been out a year, it's far from being a proven handheld console. |
In fact they shouldn't mimic it. Doing so would imply to launch ONLY a hybrid console, that would be totally against the PS phylosophy and it would do more harm than good, while what I suggest is to offer ALSO a hybrid version, and, as you correctly point out, if and only if the market will show that hybrids aren't a fad, hence the convenience, if current RAM prices and other factors weren't enough, to launch not earlier than in 2020. BTW, even launching in 2020, the hybrid version could be launched later, if the necessary chips aren't available or they're not cheap enough yet by the main launch date, the important thing is to decide and plan things when the time comes and then provide devs with the right dev kits, that's the most important thing, as adding portable features later would make costs grow for them. Anyhow, as I wrote in other posts, a hybrid choice NOW or in in 2019, even as just one of the units onoffered, is impossible for Sony, current chips couldn't offer the generation performance leap Sony users expect,and high RAM prices would make very expensive to provide the right memory size to fully use the computing power available.
A later launch doesn't mean Sony would stand still in the meantime, as it could do another mid-late-gen step making the Pro the new PS4 base model and offering a new even more powerful Premium unit, and the new avaiolable computing power could be used not just for better graphics, but also to offer a more solid and enjoyable VR experience, so that when next gen comes, some more work would have been already done to make it more attractive for users, not to mention more testing done, more SW available and HW costs further driven down by a higher number of units already produced and sold to a higher number of early adopters.
