DonFerrari said:
h2ohno said:
Sony and Microsoft are in the business of making the most powerful hardware possible. By its nature a hybrid console cannot be that. Ergo they don't make hybrid consoles. Nintendo used to be in the business of making the most powerful hardware possible, but stopped doing that 15 years ago. The Steam Deck shows what the limits of hybrid tech are today, and it's closer to the PS4 than the PS5 in specs. Making a totally new console that can be used as a mobile device as well requires a ton of capital for R&D and the end product would by nature have a radically different architecture than the PS5 and XBSX which aren't concerned about power draw or battery life. It would mean competing with themselves in a way Nintendo doesn't do since they don't have a dedicated home console. It's a niche they are happy to cede to Nintendo since the Switch is different enough from their products that it doesn't cut into their sales.
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They still could make a PS5 handheld (not hybrid) to play the same library and that could be the most powerful HH possible and that wouldn't add another platform to support except porting which can be made and even API could make it simpler process than what we think, although I don't expect them to do it.
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Yup. If games can be fairly easily ported to Switch, then a Switch like console with Switch like hardware wouldn't be any different for SNY or MS. Since third parties are already easily porting to Switch then a Switch like SNY or MS handheld would be no problem porting games to now. Even easier if it's hardware more like what Steam Deck has.
90+ mil sales isn't exactly niche either. That's a big growing pie that's uncut as of now.
