FalsettoVibe
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This was and interesting watch and follows much of what I have been thinking.
The Portal was the only real option for Sony. Even Nintendo understood this with the Switch.
Now that all their games are going to PC (eventually)
I actually disagree entirely with the premise here, that premise being either they could put a stand-alone Vita 2 or a PS5 portable.
They could put out a "PS4 Pro" Portable that plays ALL PS4 games and having an NVME SSD and a bit more horsepower could play scaled-down PS5 games.
The question is around the timing of this and the price. As gaming moves forward, I expect Sony will keep scalability in mind across the PlayStation portfolio.
Don't care, we have Steam Deck that spawn entire PC handheld market and shit ton of less powerful handhelds for emulation. Oh, and then there's Switch and inevitable Switch 2.
You don't care, yet you still post something in the thread that has absolutely nothing to do with the video?
I don't care about Sony making another handheld console ever again. It's better that way. I care about handheld gaming. It's awesome.
If anything, the next Portal iteration will be like a Steam Deck, but even then I would not hold my breath.Sony handhelds with their own dedicated library of PlayStation games are thing of the past and they ain't coming back.
If you are Sony, you don't want gamers stuck playing old PS4 games. Also, game development is becoming more and more a finite business. Resources are precious and you don't want Sony spending billions of dollars that would be spent elsewhere on experimental devices. We don't need another PSVR/2. Stick to consolesI actually disagree entirely with the premise here, that premise being either they could put a stand-alone Vita 2 or a PS5 portable.
They could put out a "PS4 Pro" Portable that plays ALL PS4 games and having an NVME SSD and a bit more horsepower could play scaled-down PS5 games.
The question is around the timing of this and the price. As gaming moves forward, I expect Sony will keep scalability in mind across the PlayStation portfolio.
Absolutely not. lol. What's your essentially describing is a portable Series S, which would just piss off developers. And even if your saying PS4 only games, I seriously doubt Sony would be interested in that due to the backlash of people buying this and complaining about never getting any "new" games.
Did you ignore the part where it would play scaled PS5 games?If you are Sony, you don't want gamers stuck playing old PS4 games. Also, game development is becoming more and more a finite business. Resources are precious and you don't want Sony spending billions of dollars that would be spent elsewhere on experimental devices. We don't need another PSVR/2. Stick to consoles
Then you have even more developers being forced to scale their games to a less powerful PS5. The portal is a perfect middle ground. Sony should not be in the handheld business. It's already a very competitive market, and it will surely just make things harder for its studiosHow would this piss off developers any more than developing for the Series S or Switch 2?
Did you ignore the part where it would play scaled PS5 games?
This would no doubt expand their market share in Japan tremendously.
PSVR2 is dope though. I don't necessarily want Sony to have 1st party studios making games for it but Sony funded RE7, Village, and RE4 VR modes, I want more of that. PSVR2 also allows access to some absolute gems from indie studios. People dump on it but it's a great platform for gaming.If you are Sony, you don't want gamers stuck playing old PS4 games. Also, game development is becoming more and more a finite business. Resources are precious and you don't want Sony spending billions of dollars that would be spent elsewhere on experimental devices. We don't need another PSVR/2. Stick to consoles
Then you have even more developers being forced to scale their games to a less powerful PS5. The portal is a perfect middle ground. Sony should not be in the handheld business. It's already a very competitive market, and it will surely just make things harder for its studios
They're already scaling on PC. The idea that we're going to get games that aren't scaled anymore is delusional. Even First Party PS5 games are going to be on PCs with minimum requirements significantly lower than what this machine would consist of.
The only PS5 games going to PC day one are GAAS titles. Everything else is 1 to 2 years out minimum. Its not as simple as it seems. You cannot create a less powerful platform and "magically" scale down.
Typically you start with the lowest common denominator and scale up.......which would lead to PS5 and the potential PS5 Pro being held back, games taking longer to deliver, etc.
It adds additional strain to development teams. We have all the evidence in the world that Series S is causing the same bottleneck for Xbox. Sony is being smart and not putting themselves in that situation.
Who would want another $300 device that wouldn't get support but a few first party titles with a bunch of niche, third party games in the first place?
That's not exactly how they would be promoting it, so you know, millions.Who would want another $300 device that wouldn't get support but a few first party titles with a bunch of niche, third party games in the first place?
I just want a portable PS4 to take my digital library around with me on my travels. I don't require any bespoke software.
A portable Series S would also be amazing.
Eh. Handheld gaming isn't awesome, its actually a pretty subpar experience in comparison to playing on a PC or a TV. It's there if someone absolutely cannot wait until get they home to play video games.I don't care about Sony making another handheld console ever again. It's better that way. I care about handheld gaming. It's awesome.
Series S. Now you want to bring an even weaker hardware with a handheld device in to the equation?It makes way more sense now than it ever has, similar architecture, easy to port day and date games. I shake my head every day sony doesn't release a handheld now. (And ms too)
You know what they say: "fool me once"...That's not exactly how they would be promoting it, so you know, millions.
And even knowing what you say is absolutely true, I would buy it day one....and probably most people here would too.
Series S. Now you want to bring an even weaker hardware with a handheld device in to the equation?
Perhaps that saying is for you, but I STILL use my Vita pretty regularly. Amazing console.You know what they say: "fool me once"...
I still use mine too, mostly for PSP bc since I never owned one of those, sadly. Bought it for P4G and it still amazes me today how much Yukiko's red blouse pops on that OLED screen.Perhaps that saying is for you, but I STILL use my Vita pretty regularly. Amazing console.
I still use mine too, mostly for PSP bc since I never owned one of those, sadly. Bought it for P4G and it still amazes me today how much Yukiko's red blouse pops on that OLED screen.
Literally the opposite, lol.More or less impossible now considering that means each and every developers has to go back to their released games to create a bespoke version. And all of them doesn't cater any budgets and resources for that.
Soooo... why can't the Vita 2 have a dock?Traditional handhelds like the Vita 2 just don't make any sense any more. Consumers are no longer interested in having to purchase a completely different subset of games just to be used speciically on a single mobile device. They want to take their console/PC/big screen games with them on the go.
That's why the Switch, Steam Deck, and streaming handhelds are the future.