Ahh Sony, always trailing behind Nintendo

It really smells like a home/handheld hybrid console. Not saying it's PS5, but another console in attempt to revitalize their handheld sales.

The only way Sony can support an Handheld is if it has the same architecture as the Home console, allowing them to have a shared library. It has to be the PS4/Pro and XBO/X situation. If they try to do two platforms again, with the handheld, getting spinoffs of every major franchise it will just end up like the Vita again. If they want to succeed, they have to have proper GTA, RDR, COD, FIFA, NBA 2K, GOW, Horizon, Gran Turismo. People will not buy a spinoff device, to play spinoff games. They don't even buy spinoff games on the platforms they have, most of the time.

As for price, storage costs are going to drop massively, as capacity baloons over the next few years. Just like with HDD vs SSD in PS5, I expect they are looking down the road over the entire life of the console, and not just launch. It may not offer the biggest profits in 2020, but what will it look like in 2023 or 2026, as more and more games are starting to sell. As they move into those "Harvest Years" as John Kodera called them, Cartridges and M.2 NVMe Storage will pay massive dividends.

Looks likely to be a hybrid handheld. A hand-held PS4 (or something that can play PS4 games at, say, 720p resolution mobile) could prove to be the Switch's undoing.

Going to throw out a random guess that their next "portable" will be their Xperia phone that can play games via cartridge. Making a portable game device merged in with their current smart phone line would be the only way I could see Sony re-entering that space.

the handheld market is non-existent at this point. nobody wants to play a game anymore that is strictly confined to a 5 inch screen with watered down graphics. so Sony is either going to make the PS5 a hybrid console, or try to support a hybrid and a home console at the same time which would be overplaying their hand a bit

I guess this is just for the next handheld. The costs for a cartridge on PS5 imho still overweight the benefits. But who knows, maybe Sony is willing to lose money initially on the cartridges for the option to make the console smaller and cheaper to produce plus faster to read.

I hope so im sick of discs lol too big and loud. If the ps5 is hybrid like the switch i would legit cry of happiness

That's not a problem. People could just use external drives for such things. 

edit: Looks like the patent has nothing to do with PlayStation: 

that looks like the carts used for the Sony toio, an japanese toy revealed last year, not sure if its came out yet or not pic.twitter.com/nWZs8hqRNn

— Kirito (@Kirito1262) November 27, 2018

Vita 2 incoming? :D

Edit: nvm, stupid toio