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[Playstation Lifestyle] New PlayStation Handheld Hopes Alive After PS Portal Success
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They're a console, and the one that's winning comfortably. Steam deck, as well as it's managed to minimize the friction, still has a lot more that Sony just tweaking PS4's OS a little, and it wouldn't have the multiplayer issues Linux does out of the box.
The switch is limited on what games can go on it by the bad CPU, and we haven't seen any real indication that Nvidia is going to be able to do better on the next one.
People are buying just the streaming handheld at a pretty decent rate for $200. Doubling that to play their entire PS4 library and still be able to stream PS5 games is a no brainer. They'd get the volume for all the same reasons PS is popular to begin with.
I don't think they'll do it, but I'll stand by my assertion that it's what the PS Portal should have been. Streaming isn't good enough to justify the price tag, even as premium as the actual device feels. I think most people willing to spend $200 for a dumb streaming handheld would have been willing to double it to natively play a lot of their games. That's not a budget conscious purchases.