The $250 is more so based on using mostly existing PS4 internal hardware. A PS5 Ryzen based unit would likely be more expensive, but not necessarily all that much more. A PS4 SS around 2019 should only cost $199 max, and the portable would only need a screen and battery on top of that, so $250 should easily be doable for the entire handheld and dock. $300 worst case scenario if they were to launch it with a more than reasonable amount of storage. There also would be nothing stopping PS from subsidizing the hybrid $50 to $100 at retail if they feel that's necessary to compete.

Switch also requires micro SD for expansion storage for extra games, and online isn't free, so it's clearly much more expensive than $300 as well. Apparently PS doesn't have the tech to compress as well as Nin does, but there's no saying someone else doesn't, that PS could pay to use. However, Vita game file sizes aren't that large though, like Killzone is 4.0GB and Uncharted is 3.5GB, while Zelda on Switch is 13.5GB. The majority of Vita games look to be around 1.0GB on average. Nin's games also don't tend to have the same level of assets that AAA games have, which allows Nin's games to have smaller file sizes in general.

PS5 costing $400 is a strong guess based on the massive success of the PS4 and much lesser sales of XB1, but we don't know what the cost of it is actually going to be. For all we know it ends up $500, assuming XB2 is $500 since XB seems to be stuck on that price. Maybe PS decides to have a $350-$400 PS5 hybrid and a standard dedicated 4k PS5 home console for $500. I said it "should" be possible based on AMD's newest tech, I never said it was guaranteed to happen, and you have the prices mixed up between different potential portable hardware. "Probably, maybe" seems to fit quite well since it's a post about "if" PS makes a Switch, and "if" it could succeed.

Well PS can make it so the disc binds to a max of 1 or 2 account's at the same time when it initially loads the game from the dock onto the handheld. If you have another friend who want's the game, you can delete/transfer the game from your account so they can load and add it to their's, but you of course cannot play anymore unless they delete/transfer it from their account. That way you can share without much hassle. This allows you to share with 1 friend at a time, but as many as you want over time, and also basically stops you from selling the game after the fact, unless it's to a retail outlet that can verify your used game has all account's open to it for the next purchaser. Maybe it also has a transfer button where you can simply input the buyers PSN ID and transfer the game account to them, otherwise people would not want to buy the game privately, not knowing if there were any account's available for it. If you could do this on the spot however, private sales could happen with some confidence, except for the possibility that the copy of the game your selling them isn't the same one that is tied to your account. That's an unlikely scenario, but possible. PS could potentially charge a small fee for this private transaction as well. I think by this time, many PS4 games will be cheap enough that people will still just buy the game directly from retail anyway. You will still get some game sharing regardless. PS5 games being new and more expensive would probably end up being shared more.

Sony has recently said that despite the fact that they have been selling extraordinary amount of consoles this holiday they cannot ignore Nintendo's switch.  Nintendo Switch is truly a very unique and intriguing concept,  if Sony were to challenge Nintendo and released their own version of the Switch would it fail just like the Vita did. Or perhaps they can learn from their mistakes and really try to push the PS Switch with strong 3rd party support.   What do you think is required of Sony to make a successful version of the Switch?   more powerful?  better online? cheaper price ? 

The $250 is more so based on using mostly existing PS4 internal hardware. A PS5 Ryzen based unit would likely be more expensive, but not necessarily all that much more. A PS4 SS around 2019 should only cost $199 max, and the portable would only need a screen and battery on top of that, so $250 should easily be doable for the entire handheld and dock. $300 worst case scenario if they were to launch it with a more than reasonable amount of storage. There also would be nothing stopping PS from subsidizing the hybrid $50 to $100 at retail if they feel that's necessary to compete.

Switch also requires micro SD for expansion storage for extra games, and online isn't free, so it's clearly much more expensive than $300 as well. Apparently PS doesn't have the tech to compress as well as Nin does, but there's no saying someone else doesn't, that PS could pay to use. However, Vita game file sizes aren't that large though, like Killzone is 4.0GB and Uncharted is 3.5GB, while Zelda on Switch is 13.5GB. The majority of Vita games look to be around 1.0GB on average. Nin's games also don't tend to have the same level of assets that AAA games have, which allows Nin's games to have smaller file sizes in general.

PS5 costing $400 is a strong guess based on the massive success of the PS4 and much lesser sales of XB1, but we don't know what the cost of it is actually going to be. For all we know it ends up $500, assuming XB2 is $500 since XB seems to be stuck on that price. Maybe PS decides to have a $350-$400 PS5 hybrid and a standard dedicated 4k PS5 home console for $500. I said it "should" be possible based on AMD's newest tech, I never said it was guaranteed to happen, and you have the prices mixed up between different potential portable hardware. "Probably, maybe" seems to fit quite well since it's a post about "if" PS makes a Switch, and "if" it could succeed.

The $250 is more so based on using mostly existing PS4 internal hardware. A PS5 Ryzen based unit would likely be more expensive, but not necessarily all that much more. A PS4 SS around 2019 should only cost $199 max, and the portable would only need a screen and battery on top of that, so $250 should easily be doable for the entire handheld and dock. $300 worst case scenario if they were to launch it with a more than reasonable amount of storage.

All esle is feasable, exept for one huge part: power consumption. The ps4 is a piwer guzzler compared to the switch. The original ps4 uses 89 watts. The slim uses 45 or so. But the switch uses a measily 5 watts if you don't factor its screen, while playing games. And the switch has a pretty big bettery if you are not going for stuff like apple's modular, form fitting batteries which cost a ton to make.

Storage space is also an issue but we all knew that. Switch can only fit 2? A ps4p with 128 gigs woyld barely be able to fit 1 if at all!

How would that work? Do Blu-rays have a writable area when the information can be stored how often the game is activated? Blu-rays aren't unique... each Blu-ray disc of a game of the same gold master is the same. If 10 other people install/transfer the game from the same disc, the other systems wouldn't know how often it has been installed/transfered before. An account binding with Blu-rays without entering an unique code ain't possible!

Remember the ps portable is 720p or even 1080p while vita is only 540p and in fact, how many games on vita that run on native resolution or majority is sub res ? Don't compared a SD portable to a HD, also, Sony game always take at least 30-40GB. To have best graphic on the system no way they compress it like Nintendo who doesn't care about cutting edge graphic or something like that. The ps portable you told me will exceed even Switch 2 power, because it is ps5 handheld, you think it will have small data size like Vita? Isn't you are one of those people who told me don't compare the new ps portable to vita? And why you compared vita size game to Switch? You know Switch came out this year and it is at least 10 times stronger than vita, right? If you compare data size, take a look at 3ds vs vita, none 3ds game go over 4GB while some games on vita is more than 4GB like Summon Night 6

Getting the same performance in a much smaller formfactor costs a lot. Miniturization is expensive.

See laptop prices compared to desktop PCs with similar performance... or ultrabook prices compared to bigger and heavier laptops with similar performance. Or the GPD Win 2 compared to a notebook with similar performance.

PS4 in console format with 16nm right now still uses too much power yes, that's why it would have to wait for 7nm around 2019. This gives PS 2-3 years over Switch to use a more advanced battery, and also take advantage of price drops. PS4 games like HZD are part of the reason the console uses so much power, but if you dial the games back, they will require less power and less space. 128GB would fit 2 large AAA games as they are right now based on the PS4 S, but it would probably end up 3-4 AAA with the games scaled back. Switch has some very large third party games that also would only allow 1-2 games on it's storage. Luckily Switch has carts, and also has space for micro SD like the PS Portable would have. Doesn't mean a PS Portable couldn't exist because of this.

I thought each BD had a unique code, if not, the UPC or another one of the codes on the game box could work potentially. I'm not sure if those codes are unique either. If not then possibly PS could produce specific portable versions of the game with some type of code attached, since remasters have done so well on PS4, or use carts in this case. They could also just make it digital only but this would limit it's sales to some degree. I guess PS could also do something like have a camera on the handheld and ask for verification where you hold up the game box UPC to the camera and scan it once a week. The day it asks you for the scan if gives you 24 hours from that point before it locks you out. That way you know every 7 days you will need to scan and can easily and quickly do it all at once if you want since it would only be a 2-6 titles most likely. This also stops you from sharing the game too much since those other people would need the box to scan as well. Unless you and all of your friends purposely installed the game on the same day so you could all get together and scan the game box at the same time. Since these physical only gamers like having their physical copies around, i don't see this being a huge headache, as long as it's not an everyday or every other day scan. PS could even charge like $2.00 to postpone the scan an extra week if your going away on vacation or business and don't want to bring the box.

PS Portable being the best? I said it wouldn't even have to be as good as Switch 2, as long as it's close enough. I even mentioned PS4 and Pro in comparison to XB1X to prove this is true. It doesn't have to be the best hardware, just good enough. Your clearly confused about what was said and who said it. My point about Vita is you make it sound like PS4 games can't be any smaller than they are, when in reality they can be. I never said how small they would end up, but pretending like PS4 games are all locked at 60GB is extremely closed minded, considering the Pro 4k versions are not the same size.

See PS4 S $300 vs PS4 $349 vs Pro $399 vs PC with RX 470/480 $499+. I also mentioned multiple times that the games would not be running at full spec.

Many games are not on Vita because they are too big. You know almost all Western AAA games that are not on Vita, only Japan third parties are, and it still miss a lot AAA JP games, even AA too. How to the next ps portable get these game physically if not for very big cart?