Bingo. It doesn’t mention anything about Sony being interested in making a handheld again. He’s talking about engaging customers to stay on the PS4. And to be honest, Sony’s focus on single player prevents continuous engagement like an MP focused or MMO would do.

They are competing for a place in someone's home, for someone's gaming time, for someone looking to invest money into their platform. So it is foolish to think that they don't compete.

Make online gaming free again. Do that and the only thing Sony can't ignore is how they're going to keep up the supplies for the demand.

They're competing for time among two different groups of people. As the top-selling games on each will be evident, minimal crossover. They will have very different software libraries. It's not like the PS4/XBO, where the games are largely the same.

How would making online gaming free help them though?

There will be no new playstation portable, people should let this idea go.Sony likes things the way they are now,and even if they wish to do a new portable,they would just make a really powerful hardware and then go back to their home console,because that is what they do.

I don't like the idea of nintendo having the monopoly of the portable dedicated consoles,but sony just don't give a crap to this anymore.

7nm will make it possible to bring PS4 to a device the size of the Vita. Either via the PS4's current tech, or using new tech shared with the PS5. They could make this happen as early as next fall, and definitly by 2019.

If they moved to PS5 in 2019, and offered both a mobile/handheld option along with a 4K home console, I would be perfectly fine with PS5 being a half step. A 10 - 12TF PS5 with 16GB of RAM, and the ability to play all games at 4K/60, and a 2TF handheld with full compatibility to PS4 and PS5 games would be incredible.

 As for services, I think they are close to tapped out on service. PS Video, Ps Music, PS Vue, PS Now, and PS+ pretty much cover the spectrum of digital services you can offer. Maybe they could add a subscription to PS Video or offer Music Purchases through PS Music? PS Home Security? Add services to XBO and Switch? Bet thing I can see is offering a wider range of PlayStation devices that increase the value of the current services, and keep people more connected to the current services.

All I want is continued growth, and expansion. The avenues to that are pretty obvious.

You don't have to worry about Sony having a monopoly. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Nintendo, Amazon, ect. aren't going anywhere. Offering a wider range of devices, only gives Sony customers greater value on their software and services, while potentially making their ecosystem more appealing to a wider audience.

Absolutely. Switch's ability to allow a single purchase to be played easily at home, or on a road trip has true potential to damage sales of 3rd party software for Sony, and that hits them where it hurts. For the first time in 20 years I am on board with what Nintendo is doing, and with the right moves they could sway me even further to their side. It is a real threat, and Sony needs to do something about it.

Not everyone is into Mobile/Portable/Handhelds, on the other hand, not everyone is into Consoles/PCs. Sony messed up with the Vita, but they have everything they need to do the mobile market right with the next attempt. With PlayStation being built around scalability now, they can have a shared library across all device, making it much more appealing than the second rate efforts we saw on PSP and Vita.

For those of us that enjoy portable gaming, there is still a lot that can be done to improve the expereince that does not require a giant 4K screen. See Fifa, NBA, WWE, Doom, and other 3rd party games coming to Switch. We still don't quite have the power to offer a solid console expereince on the go.

The thing is Sony doesn't have to go into this in a fight against Apple and Google. The main purpose of the platform would be games. The 4G or 5G connections main purpose would be giving you the full online gaming expereince anywhere you go. Sony doesn't have to sell 100 million devices a year to be profitable. With everything being shared across all PS devices, even if it only sold as well as the Vita, it would be a very profitable device. That said, a mobile device with full access to the PlayStation library would blow by the VIta, the PSP, and potentially even the PS2. 

I don't know how to get it arocss, but millions of people don't care about their Android or iOS phone, and never use it for more than calls, texting, and web browsing. I work in 24 hour business with a head count just over 4,000 people in my location, and over 140,000 world wide. The average pay is over 100K/year, and the people range from early 20's to retirement. My position has me moving across shifts, and getting to know the vast majority of these people over the last decade plus. Beyond that, I have been coast to coast across the US, and to a handfull of other countries working for this company. I know people all over the world, from all backgrounds, and of all ages. The idea that people are satisfied with iOS and Android, and would not jump all over something that truly shifted the land scape is pretty much religated to the online community. Don't know what else to say.

Also, that might give you some idea of why I want a bad ass mobile device, and why I love the Vita and Remote Play.

There is one group of people: People who want to play games. You haven't grasped what I said when I meant, they are competing for someone's gaming time. It is completely logical for Sony to be concerned with this.

See I see it the opposite way. Sony trying to make a hybrid could make them monopolize the game industry if it succeeds, and if it fails we'll have another portable for no reason. Nintendo and Sony will just get closer to monopolizing different segments of the industry.

Switch is not direct competition to PS4 like XB1 is for instance, but all consoles are competing on same market place, there are people that can byu only one console and that will choose between PS4 and Switch, so all consoles in some degree do effect on sales of each other, but that doesn't mean that PS4 and Switch can't have great sales in same time. And basically what Sony here said is that popularity of Switch can effect PS4 sales.