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setsunatenshi on 01 May 2018
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forevercloud3000 said:
Mnementh said:
Sorry to squash your dreams, but it is just not technically possible this year. Alone the idea PS5 is a hybrid like Switch is crazy, because even in a few years the power-need of something in the PS4-power-level would basically prevent a mobile/hybrid version. With the higher TDP you would need bigger, heavier batteries and to remove the heat you basically need space. A mobile PS4 would be big and clunky. And you make it worse, by projecting it to be PS4-compatible. There is a reason ARM dominates mobile devices: the power-consumption. To stay PS4-compatible you need X64-chipset, which drains even more power than an ARM at this power-level. To finish it off you declare it digital only. While it makes sense that a mobile device can't really use optical media, it cuts severely into sales as digital sales might have grown in the past years, but are still only one third of the sales. Also you basically fuck over all current PS4-owners that bought physical games, as the digital owners can play there games on the mobile PS4 via crossbuy, but the physical owners are left out. This does not work on many levels.

I am not completely tech savy, but is there not a presedent for a portable device requiring far less power because it only needs to output at a fraction of the resolution? Sony pantented some tech eons ago that allows resizing of images at minimal loss of quality. Also, Many multiplat games are being proven to run on Switch, that means that they can run in some depowered state on a portable device. 

Game Developers are already used to scaling for refined hardware teirs now. PS4 Pro/Xbox One X ensured that.

Sony also just patented some kind of DRM tech.... How relevant that is is yet to be seen. Yet there are already president for allotting digital versions for consumers who own a physical copy. Look no further than Xbox's backwards compatibility. Not to mention.....I don't think they would see it at "leaving owners left out". Digital is the future anyway, and is very much accepted in the portable space. Look at sell phones, look at the Vita. When it comes to portability it can easily become the preferred method.

it's ok to not be that tech savy, but rather than throwing out assumptions like this it would be good to ask more tech savy people why such thing hasn't happened.

i think a few users, including myself, have presented several reasons why such a thing isn't even in the reals of what's possible.

it's ok to dream, but I wouldn't call this either a theory or a prediction :)