EricHiggin said: If PS has any chance of creating a portable/hybrid that plays console games, their best chance is explained in this article. |
With 500$ price point and 1.5 hours battery life? Possible, yes. Sell good? Nope
Could Sony make a successful Switch ? | |||
Yes | 25 | 14.37% | |
No | 83 | 47.70% | |
Depends on many things | 62 | 35.63% | |
see results | 4 | 2.30% | |
Total: | 174 |
EricHiggin said: If PS has any chance of creating a portable/hybrid that plays console games, their best chance is explained in this article. |
With 500$ price point and 1.5 hours battery life? Possible, yes. Sell good? Nope
Player2 said:
Yeah, but PS5 won't have a play on the go option because Sony is dumb. |
Yeah because they were so dumb to not include that in the PS4, right?
Player2 said:
Tell that to Lawlight. |
Tell me what? You disagreed with him in your previous post and now you’re acting like you’re in agreement with him?
Of course it would succeed but it just wont be as successful as a powerful home console. If its their only system, the PlayStation fans will have no choice but to buy it. The vita failed because sony killed it. But if the hybrid their only gaming system on the market, all the sony first party studios will develop games for it and it will still have all the third party games. No third party can ignore sony only system, not even rockstar.
Nintendo owns Japan market which is the biggest for portable market, Sony owns Europe and XBox has been strongest in USA. Trying to win Nintendo in Japan is a tall order, so I dont think Sony would go there.
konkari said: Nintendo owns Japan market which is the biggest for portable market, Sony owns Europe and XBox has been strongest in USA. Trying to win Nintendo in Japan is a tall order, so I dont think Sony would go there. |
MS practically only has a foot in the USA. They are "relevant" in EU and non existent in Japan. PS4 owns both USA and EU right now. I suspect that the Switch will pass the X1 in the US lifetime sales as well, and yes Nintendo owns Japan.
While they still have a strong presence in the US, they are losing ground fast. X1 has been behind the PS4 from the start, even in the US. The 360 just landed in the right place at the right time.
ON PS5 they could make a line from dedicated console, hybrid and HH, with unified library if they dedicate a lot on the engineering and APIs... still I don't think that will give much more result than focusing on PS5 only.
duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363
Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994
Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."
Sony can't even make their smartphones and TVs sell like Samsung do for example. Just because a product has sales and it doesn't mean they can enter the market and rock it.