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Hardstuck-Platinum on 04 September 2025
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Soundwave said:
Hardstuck-Platinum said:

The PS6 portable will just be a portable PS5 though. If Nintendo doesn't react to PS5 with equal power console in 2020 why would they react to an equal power handheld in 2027? They will have completely different business models. Switch 2 has the standard console sales model where you have to sell 10's of millions to convince devs to support platform, whereas the PS6P will just take advantage of the support the PS5 already gets. It's just a PS5 really, and Nintendo can't compete with that with the Switch 2 because PS5 is so far ahead now

That's the thing though that people aren't getting ... a PS6 Portable model IS the PS6 then. Doesn't matter if its hardware spec is below even the PS5.

That's the baseline that all developers will make games on. And if those games run better than the Switch 2, then it is a direct threat to Nintendo's hybrid market share. So they basically have no choice but to respond in kind with a Pro (or whatever they want to call it) model at some point. I don't think they can just sit there and let Sony have free reign with portable device that has all 3rd party games day 1, you're just recreating a similar situation to the PS1 to N64 then. 

Where does that leave the "normal PS6" then? It will just run those PS6 Portable games (with PS5 tier graphics) and shiny them up a bit with better resolution and effects and that's all. 

I think people have it backwards thinking the portable/hybrid PS6 is just the secondary/companion console ... it will end up being the opposite. The hybrid form factor when offered to consumers is very popular and second to that, no developer is going to want to not get sales from that console, so by default it basically becomes the platform they actually have to target for, because it's easy to then just take that version of the game and ramp it up for the regular PS6. 

All that is to say ... we could be seeing PS5 games (as in the current PS5 home console) then as a result for like another decade, lol. 

Sony going hybrid and Microsoft effectively going out of the market in a lot of ways is going to radically change the console landscape I think, more than people might be prepared for even. 

Yeah, your right with almost everything I think, apart from Nintendo responding. The Switch 2 already costs 450$ with a PS4 level CPU and has a poor battery life. a new model to compete with PS6P would require a Switch 3, not a Switch 2 Pro. Switch 2 has an ARM CPU clocked at 1.0GHZ which is even with PS4 CPU. It's not possible to beef up a PS4 level CPU to compete with PS6P and have a reasonable battery life and cost. Would require an entirely new switch with a new design and different CPU.