Will the Switch ever get a Direct competitor?

[DonFerrari]

couchmonkey said:

DonFerrari said:

Would be crazy to leave the "high-end" console side where they have good presence and won steadily to go to the "portable/performance budgeted" market they don't know as much and even though done good once they got trashed in the sequence.

Only way they would make the switch competitor besides streaming would be they discovering a magical scaler that would make native code of PS5 to work on it. So you just either download the game and have it on the HDD of the portable or have it on PS5 transferred to a card you can put on the portable and need some sort of validation (like 24h check of the disc on the original PS5 logged on the same account or whoever they see possible)...

Anyway I don't think they will do it.

This is an interesting conundrum for Sony. My two cents is Sony can dismiss Microsoft at this point because MS no longer cares about console wars...that’s why the exclusives suck and that’s why we hear rumours of Xbox live coming to Nintendo.  the big picture items are cloud and mobility...cloud makes your hardware specs less relevant by delegating processing to servers, then again as som3 others have pointed out, cloud is slightly at odds with mobility until you get cheap enough data plans in all the major markets.

I think Son6 should tackle the hybrid market but obviously it will be a challenge.

The less of a threat MS is to Sony the more reason for they to focus in that market with almost monopoly. Sure that can free up resources for they to really evaluate a streaming, but for hybrid if they have to forfeit power on the home console is a no go for they.