You're probably right...especially when distribution is still so difficult.
I guess they will focus on PS5, whether new or old models and trying to get some momentum behind PSVR2.
[RUMOUR] Codenamed Q Lite, the next PlayStation handheld is the next piece of Sony hardware
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You're probably right...especially when distribution is still so difficult.
I guess they will focus on PS5, whether new or old models and trying to get some momentum behind PSVR2.
You're describing a 500 dollar+ device (or 400 but streaming costs extra) and pricing it at 150. What a pipedream.
Tom's rumor didn't say anything about it being portable, and could easily be a PS5 slim, which is almost certainly going to come eventually.
It being a phone just complicates things for no good reason. What is the point of draining the battery of your phone to play games?
Make it as big as it needs to be and focus on being a dedicated device for games/media consumption with an OLED screen.
Native PS1/PS2/PSP/PSV/PS4 and PS3/PS5 streaming. Specific games can get a native port when it makes sense.
This would increase the appeal of PS+, give PlayStation players access to their games on the go and offer a new way for people to enter the PlayStation ecosystem. It's the smart way for Sony to compete more directly with the Switch/Deck without creating another Vita situation.
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Smaller than a Steam Deck if needed.
The Deck is around the same ballpark a PS4 portable would need to be. Memory would probably be the biggest challenge at this point but nothing impossible.
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I think the rumour could be legit and a surprise. It doesn’t need to be expensive. Maybe something like 350.00 up to 400.00 (€/$/£).
I wouldn’t be surprised if it would be something like Steam Deck. BC to PS4 an PS5 but with lower specs.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it would be something like Steam Deck. BC to PS4 an PS5 but with lower specs.
Tom Henderson and reputable doesn’t fit the same phase…
I will take it as another of his made up stories.
If it would have been someone like Grubb I would agree. But this Tom Henderson, his track record on PlayStation rumours is incredibly positive.
steam deck is able to run PS4 games at 720p 30 hz with decent battery life, but its huge
sony would be able to make a handheld that can do the same
but if they want it to be smaller, like switch sized, it will not have good battery life
and to sell it for like $400 they'd probably have to take a loss
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Then I don't believe that this is a portable gaming system, but a portable VR headset.
The part about the phone is just my way of seeing how Sony could justify the handheld. For one, the phone and the handheld share all the same base specs, just that the phone may have a bit more RAM (for extended background tasks when running Android), and a doubling of internal storage. Otherwise the performance of both models is the same in terms of games.
Playing native PS3 games on the phone model is just an option, but they can get around the battery and throttling issue by building extended cooling and a charging component into a fit-to-form controller option that replicates physical inputs. The "gaming" version of the device would already have this built-in, but you can make it modular and sell it as an accessory for the "phone" version for a certain price.
Really, this is about providing the option, but Sony can provide pricing on the "phone" version for profit margins the "gaming" version may not allow. They can also establish deals with mobile carriers for the phone, and in both cases those can effectively subsidize a friendlier MSRP foe the gaming handheld.
Though I don't think Sony makes a handheld version sell for any less than $349, at least if they can re-use that same design for a phone variant, that could present a path where they can provide a handheld for $299, or maybe even $249, as a lower priced SKU that may, say, have a lower resolution screen or smaller amount of internal storage.
BTW everything you mention about native PS1/2/4/PSP/Vita support and streaming PS5/PS3, I am on board with. I am hoping that maybe they can make some version of the rumored detachable disc drive, that can enable native PS3 support. That type of drive would probably go for $149 though, and still require the host processing hardware.
However, if they can do that, maybe this handheld could be compatible and you get some form of native PS3 support running on the handheld as well.
PS3 at this point has nothing to do with hardware, they'll either bother with an emulator or won't do anything at all with it.
As for the phone, I don't see the appeal at all, just like a Switch Phone would be the worst phone in the world easily and doesn't make sense.
If Valve can sell the Deck for $399 Sony would be able to beat that price with relative ease. What is impressive about the Deck is how much more challenging it was for Valve to have to solve so many problems at once.
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He said a month before GT7 release that GT7 was delayed lol
What he got right? I never saw any of his predictions coming right to be fair.
This is a nice wish list you have there, but that sounds like a $600+ system.
However, I think the screen will be 800p or something along those lines. The CPU\GPUs will use similar tech as what is in the PS5... but they will be clocked much lower and the GPU will have a much smaller die along lower clock speeds. As before, games released for it will have patches, PS4 games would just run, but "PS5" games will need some level of adjustment to run on it, but everything would be in place to allow down sized ports.
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So my proposed system to run PS4 games is too expensive due to 1080p screen but you want a system that plays PS5 games?
Zen2/RDNA2 is just to make things simple and it's not like Sony would have any other option other than going with something even more advanced. Other than the screen everything else is close to what the $399 Steam Deck had when it hit the market more than a year ago.
1080p screen makes sense due to how many PS4 games are already rendered at 1080p but in the case of eventual native games devs would be free to render the games at lower resolutions. 1080p can't be that much more expensive or consume too much more energy since every phone/tablet in the world are past that.
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