| EricHiggin said: If XB sales keep declining into next gen, and PS6 can pick up a nice chunk of those, it would give SNY all the more reason to keep and grow their walled garden, while trying to expand it into others ecosystems at the same time. |
The thing is, they don't really need the walled garden approach anymore. Phil Spencer has been very clear that it is no longer MS's goal to compete with PS5 and the Switch 2 has technical shortcomings that won't allow it to compete with the PS5 in a way that concerns Sony. CPU being only a bit more powerful than PS4 for example (according to Virtuos studios developer)
| EricHiggin said: I think before going hard at porting some games to SW2, SNY might just take one more crack at a PS handheld (hybrid) and see how it goes. If it sells well enough, fantastic, but if it fails, then focus on porting to SW2,SW3,etc, going forward. |
It will be more like the Steam Deck as in they won't develop games for it, it will just run the games on the PS store. So, not really a competitor device to Switch 2 where the games are specifically developed for it around the hardware. If it's not a competitor device they may as as well just put their games on there.
