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curl-6 on 27 August 2023
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Biggerboat1 said:
curl-6 said:

By the time that's viable with decent battery life, a convenient form factor, and a reasonable price point, the PS4's library will be old hat. I don't think many people would buy a new system just to play old games, especially when there are other competing options like Switch 2 and Steam Deck that play new stuff.

Isn't switch 2 reportedly around the power of ps4? And that's rumoured to be using tech that's already 2-3 years old. I'm not talking about emulation which would obvs require way more power. 

Again, there may be technical reasons why a mobile chipset couldn't play ps4 games natively, but I don't think power is one of them. 

Also, I think we're entering an era of many games being scalable enough to fit on modern handhelds, so Sony and devs wouldn't have to assign tonnes of resource to a new ps portable (arguably the main reason for their exit from the market), it'd simply just be another platform to play the latest releases (as well as a huge back-catalogue). 

I'm not saying this is likely to happen by the way, but it'd be cool. Essentially a PS-Deck. 

Switch 2's specs are unconfirmed as of yet, but even if you had the raw power, portable hardware has bottlenecks in different places so the games would need some investment of resources to adapt them, like how PS3/360 games still need to be ported to Switch even though it's more capable than those consoles. 

The technology to play PS5 games on a portable without sinking a considerable resources into the conversion process doesn't exist yet, and by the time it does, Sony will be looking to move on to PS6.