EricHiggin said:
It does if you keep the hardware at a reasonably low cost. Which would be easy to do if the handheld and console shared internal hardware. You may have to wait for many PS5 gamers to skip PS6 and upgrade to PS7 in this case, but at that time you'll still have great sales between both PS6 and PS7 and you'll have far easier development for those 2 systems, since there's really only 2 pieces of hardware to dev for even though there's 4 retail systems on shelves. This should certainly help when it comes to game development and getting games out sooner than later, which is becoming more and more of a problem, along with rising software prices. PS6 is already going to be a bit of a different business model to begin with based on the leaks so far. A handheld and home console, that shares a library. The only way I see PS6 selling well overall based on the leaks, is if the PS6 handheld is heavily subsidized (assuming there's no PS6 Lite), or if they also launch a PS6 Lite for as cheap as possible. If the PS6 Lite doesn't exist, or the handheld isn't cheap enough, plenty of PS5 gamers won't transition because the PS6 main console will be too expensive. PS4 gamers still won't transition to PS6. Plenty of new consumers won't buy into PS6 because they won't be able to afford to. This would be a bad situation for SNY. |
They're definitely in a pickle with PS6, but I'm not convinced a stopgap solution is the answer. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
