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| PAOerfulone said: At what cost though? I keep hearing these rumors about Sony releasing a new handheld and I just think “…Really?” Remember the Vita? There’s a reason Sony stopped making handhelds in the first place. They saw the growing mobile elephant in the room, the difference was they didn’t (and still don’t) have the IPs to still compete, sell well, or even thrive despite mobile like Nintendo does. And they also stopped making handhelds for the same reason Nintendo stopped making two separate systems - It became too costly and demanding in resources for them to support two separate systems when their development resources were spread so thin and one system clearly wasn’t pulling its weight. And unless Sony seriously puts effort, emphasis, costs, and resources into doing so, they’re going to run into the same problem again. |
Which is exactly why all the rumours state the new console is just going to run the same games as the PS5. It won't require anywhere near the resource investment that a handheld with its own library like the PSP/Vita did.
