Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition Trailer

[DonFerrari]

h2ohno said:

DonFerrari said:

No you are the one that doesn't get what we are saying.

Neither of us is saying instead of making PS5 they way it is to make it HH or hybrid. What we are saying is to make a version of the PS5 as handheld (which certainly would be much less powerfull than the PS5) but still able to play the same library, so you would have both the PS5 console and PS5 HH at once in the market with the same library (which removes the problem of supporting 2 platforms at once).

Every 3rd party is capable of making versions not only for PS4, X1, PS5, Series, Switch but also for plethora of PC configurations. So it wouldn't really be traumatic for Sony to make as part of their API and game development (even if very simple to cut resolution and effects by drastic terms, like 4k to 720p because of the screen size, which one simple math accounting would make 9x difference so you could go from PS5 10Tflop architeture to a 1Tflop and everything scalled properly) it is still a fixed system and if 3rd parties can make it for PC variations Sony could do for their game (even more if they go and put that it is digital only because the size for a BD reader would be to much and cost for a card reader and the like would also, and work on the reduction of assets to not need a expensive internal SSD).

So you're saying that technology has reached the point where the way hardware has always been developed no longer applies.  They can just release a new console with no investment, no R&D, no preparation and just have it sell without any negative consequences, and their home consoles won't suffer at all from them offering a product that offers the exact same games at a lower price and on the go.  We don't live in a fantasy world where companies can just put out whatever products we want with no risk and no investment.  Sony would have to be mad to take such an action when the PS5 is all but guaranteed to sell over 100 million units and doing so would only make it less appealing with no guarantee sales of the handheld version would make up for the lost home console sales or the investment.  Their most successful handheld sold around the same as their least successful home console, and their last handheld barely outsold the Wii U.

Microsoft has perhaps a bigger incentive to go this route since they don't sell as many units and they don't care about burning money.  A handheld Xbox Series would still hurt the appeal of the Series X and S, but it's not like sales of those will ever be on fire and they don't have as much to lose, but they were also burned the last time they tried to follow a hardware trend started by Nintendo and will likely never fully recover from that. Sony has no incentive whatsoever to mess with their golden goose.

Again you are really not getting the point.

Where did I say there is no R&D expenses?

Who said lower price for the games? It is the same shared library, you buy physical you can play only on console, you buy digital you can play on both.

In what world would having a PS5 portable at the same time as PS5 console would sell less than PS5 console alone? Some people would sure prefer to buy a weaker PS5 for portability and save some money on the HW as well, others preffer to have the as strong as possible version and don`t care about portability they don`t canibalize as you think, or do you think AMD and NVidia should stop making GPU versions for notebook?

Sony doesn't even make money from the HW, so as long as their additional SW sales and royalties increase more than it would cost the R&D of a portable version of the PS5 architecture there would be no detriment to it.

And again I didn't even say they will do it or should do it. I'm just pointing it is feasible.