Sony's PS6 will use AMD's UDNA GPU architecture and ZEN5 or ZEN6 for CPU. Sony's upcoming handheld will also use AMD hardware.

[Ghaleon]

Smart move. AMD seems to be the only serious and legitimate player in the gaming hardware industry. These kinds of choices should also erase any excuses against backwards compatibility.

A new PlayStation handheld is pretty exciting. Fans have been hoping for something like this for years

It's going to fail under current management. They don't have the right mentality to do HH.. And remember it was the western side that originally undermined, hated and killed off the last two HHs. And i don't think it requires a tin-foil hat to point out the reputation the HH's got from people like your average ReeeEra regular both in and out of the modern so-called gaming media, the treatment it got from the western branches of sony, and the type of policies now targeting specifically the type of games that made them successful everywhere given a chance. Now that same branch owns the gaming division completely and instituted a blanket policy against the very type of games any successful HH will need. Especially if they want to take on Nintendo.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Smart move. AMD seems to be the only serious and legitimate player in the gaming hardware industry. These kinds of choices should also erase any excuses against backwards compatibility.




It's going to fail under current management. They don't have the right mentality to do HH.. And remember it was the western side that originally undermined, hated and killed off the last two HHs. And i don't think it requires a tin-foil hat to point out the reputation the HH's got from people like your average ReeeEra regular both in and out of the modern so-called gaming media, the treatment it got from the western branches of sony, and the type of policies now targeting specifically the type of games that made them successful everywhere given a chance. Now that same branch owns the gaming division completely and instituted a blanket policy against the very type of games any successful HH will need. Especially if they want to take on Nintendo.

Astro Bot literally exists.

So instead of combining 2 hardware into 1 powerhouse they will follow Xbox & have 2 piece of hardware that will effect both of them sales wise & development wise. Big mistake.

Follow Nintendo that’s the key to success

In this specific case I don't think a hybrid would work. SIE'd either need to go absolutely ham with PCIe 6.0 interconnect lanes (which will be costly, and still have latency issues meaning you'd need more raw power overhead between connected components to offset the difference), but would also probably need to implement other standards on top of it like CXL 3.0. It'd also probably increase overall costs.

Alternatively they could try things like RapidIO, OMI etc. that SIE could use for a hybrid where they'd want to ensure high performance at low latencies. But these aren't industry standards in the gaming space, and would probably require at least semi-proprietary solutions. And they'd still need PCIe for things like m.2 SSDs, or use a switch to convert say RapidIO to PCIe, tho with some small performance penalty.

Then there's the fact that some markets might just be better served with a home console and others with a portable. A handheld able to run scaled down versions of PS6 games (via things like more advanced PSSR and such to scale & optimize performance to the handheld with little work required by devs) would be a great solution. Plus I don't think the PS6 is going to be that much more powerful than the PS5 Pro in terms of raw TF; they'll likely focus on a much better CPU and better custom technologies, buffer caches etc. for things like image upscaling and (hopefully) AI-powered image filter systems, LOD generation/scaling and framebuffer generation based on smart sampling & metadata.

 

[Systemshock2023]

I don't see the ps or xbox handheld being a massive success. The console user wants to play on big TVs with decent IQ. I don't see a game pile ratchet and clank rift apart being worth it on advice like the switch lite.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

I don't see the ps or xbox handheld being a massive success. The console user wants to play on big TVs with decent IQ. I don't see a game pile ratchet and clank rift apart being worth it on advice like the switch lite.

PS Portal kind of proves you're wrong on this, as it's been alternating with the DualSense Edge as best-selling peripheral in many markets every month since release.

The convenience of taking your console gaming on the go is too strong to ignore, and most console owners aren't obsessed over "perfect pixels" or the types of graphics metrics places like Digital Foundry obsess over.

They just want the new games and big games to play; if they can seamlessly go between the TV and a portable they'll take up that option more often than not.