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RJ_Sizzle on 14 May 2017
NightDragon83 said:
Why would Sony do that? They'd be cannibalizing their own market. The reason Switch works is because Nintendo doesn't have a dedicated home console competing with it at the moment, and the 3DS (or 2DS) is only going to be around for another year or two before Nintendo decides to go all-in on the Switch.

What market would they be cannibalizing? This device would still be a PS4, just in handheld form. It would play everything in the PS4 library. It would just be another iteration of the console, if they could be able to do it. It would be an idea that could extend the life of the console for some time if they acted on it within the next couple of years.



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ZODIARKrebirth on 14 May 2017

Hope that sony doesn't try to copy the switch, but to try something new



RJ_Sizzle on 14 May 2017
ZODIARKrebirth said:
Hope that sony doesn't try to copy the switch, but to try something new

To be honest though, the Switch isn't a new concept. It's just Nintendo going with a mobile route with this console. If the Switch ends up being a juggernaut, then that would be the market demanding that they prefer to have these types of games on the go as well as home. It may be something they can't ignore in the future. 



Soundwave on 14 May 2017
RJ_Sizzle said:
NightDragon83 said:
Why would Sony do that? They'd be cannibalizing their own market. The reason Switch works is because Nintendo doesn't have a dedicated home console competing with it at the moment, and the 3DS (or 2DS) is only going to be around for another year or two before Nintendo decides to go all-in on the Switch.

What market would they be cannibalizing? This device would still be a PS4, just in handheld form. It would play everything in the PS4 library. It would just be another iteration of the console, if they could be able to do it. It would be an idea that could extend the life of the console for some time if they acted on it within the next couple of years.

What you're describing is impossible. 

You cannot get a PS4 with the same literal architecture down into a portable form factor with anything resembling acceptable battery life. 

Sony could have a PS4-tier mobile 3 or 4 years from now but it would have to be built from scratch using mobile components and as such would be incompatible with the existing PS4 library. 

Good luck with mobile memory bandwidth of 140GB/sec anytime soon either. 



radishhead on 14 May 2017

Unless Sony is willing to combine their handheld and console development teams like Nintendo, they shouldn't bother.



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RJ_Sizzle on 14 May 2017
Soundwave said:
RJ_Sizzle said:

What market would they be cannibalizing? This device would still be a PS4, just in handheld form. It would play everything in the PS4 library. It would just be another iteration of the console, if they could be able to do it. It would be an idea that could extend the life of the console for some time if they acted on it within the next couple of years.

What you're describing is impossible. 

You cannot get a PS4 with the same literal architecture down into a portable form factor with anything resembling acceptable battery life. 

Sony could have a PS4-tier mobile 3 or 4 years from now but it would have to be built from scratch using mobile components and as such would be incompatible with the existing PS4 library. 

Good luck with mobile memory bandwidth of 140GB/sec anytime soon either. 

Moores law exists for a reason. It wouldn't have to be literal. There could be conponents that emulate what functions are supposed to do to get the games running. Architecture changes. No one thought they'd be playing a PS2 on something the size of a PS2 slim either. That's not any kind of barrier to play the games, its just, would they want to and how much is it worth to them to do so.



Uabit on 14 May 2017

They shouldn't and no one would buy it despite what you may read on forums. They have now a bad image because of how they abandoned Vita and they don't have portable killer apps like Pokemon.



Nymeria on 14 May 2017

I'd buy it day one.

That said, I don't think Sony should do it.



RJ_Sizzle on 14 May 2017
Uabit said:
They shouldn't and no one would buy it despite what you may read on forums. They have now a bad image because of how they abandoned Vita and they don't have portable killer apps like Pokemon.

Did the Vita have the PS4 library? This isn't about Sony making another handheld. That's a bad idea. AWFUL even. This is about Sony taking the PS4 to an eventual mobile form.



Louie_86 on 14 May 2017

I wish they never do, and either way I wouldnt buy it.