Kyuu said:
Mandalore76 said:
There's a reason though that the Switch's biggest advantage is its hybrid nature. The launch model and the OLED Switch can both be used as a home console and a portable system as a single purchase. $299 (or $350 when the OLED releases) gets you a home console and a handheld in one. The hypothetical PS5 portable you are talking about is asking Sony gamers to purchase a PS5 home console for $500 and then another $350 or more to be able to play those same games portably? That's a bad value proposition. Not to mention the PSVR2 that has yet to release and will likely cost $300-$400. That's potentially $1200+ for a PS5 gamer to get the most out of the multi-pronged platform you envision. That barrage of costly addons you are advocating is the kind of thing that Sega fatigued Genesis owners with. |
Options are nice. I skipped the Vita and PSVR1, and would skip a portable PS5, but there is a market for it beyond the existing PS5 owners. And no one is required to buy both, why are you assuming it would be an add-on? |
I meant addon in the sense that it would be part of the PS5 family of system, not that either would be required to purchase in order to use the other except in the case of the VR. I just think the largest pool of customers for a PS5 portable would come from within the PS5 existing/potential userbase. And in that scenario, it's a bad value proposition for having to pay twice for hardware to play the same game.
