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| Hardstuck-Platinum said: You don't think a PS Vita TV style device will be cheaper than the PS5? Remember how cheap the PS Vita TV was? It was just a cheap handheld chipset in a small plastic shell. No need for any expensive cooling systems or materials. I know costs are a lot higher now but all the materials used to create the bulky ps5 all add up to make an expensive product. 550$ should be doable easy, even with expensive RAM and storage. They would save so much on materials and shipping. |
PS Vita was nowhere near the powerful as the PS3 and the market forces were different. PS6 Portable is said to have 8GB more ram than the PS5, ram is the primary driver of costs here. Not cooling materials. Beyond that a $550 PS6 lite (sold at a fair loss) would offer little benefit over a base PS5 to the general user (slightly better image quality & RT) and may actually be compromised in terms of CPU, many people would simply not upgrade and be content with their base PS5 and it certainly wouldn't justify its own exclusives, so it doesn't necessarily solve the any problems here.
The only caveat here is that we don't actually know how next gen features are being used. IF Machine Learning enables things outside of visuals (i.e next gen NPC, physics simulations, operating system functions etc that aren't possible elsewhere), then a PS6 lite could replace the PS5 and have enough USP in terms of feature support to get people to pay $600 for similar level graphics but much expanded gameplay experience. Even then, I think Sony would simply push the portable/hybrid and ignore a TV only version until late in the gen (Hybrid = more play time, more variety of games played).
