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PAOerfulone said:
At what cost though? I keep hearing these rumors about Sony releasing a new handheld and I just think “…Really?” Remember the Vita? There’s a reason Sony stopped making handhelds in the first place. They saw the growing mobile elephant in the room, the difference was they didn’t (and still don’t) have the IPs to still compete, sell well, or even thrive despite mobile like Nintendo does. And they also stopped making handhelds for the same reason Nintendo stopped making two separate systems - It became too costly and demanding in resources for them to support two separate systems when their development resources were spread so thin and one system clearly wasn’t pulling its weight. And unless Sony seriously puts effort, emphasis, costs, and resources into doing so, they’re going to run into the same problem again. |
The consoles is to port PS5 and upcoming PS6 games. During Vita life it was not possible to run current gen games in affordable hardware
It will be possible soon. Games now are developed with weaker setups in mind, and development cycles are very long so they are stretching cross gen titles. Even in 2026 there will be AAA games that run on PS4. A new handheld will have no shortage of games
If I could play my digital library on new PS handheld then I'm immediately sold as long the price is not outrageous. No exclusives or IPs required. So far I'm considering a Steam Deck which is essentially this. If new PS handheld works as alternative I could get that instead of Steam Deck
