This wouldn’t be a steam deck competitor. At least less directly than it is a switch competitor. And Sony tends to do hardware well, they just don’t have the best pricing track record as of late.

[–] zecg 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They also don't have enough games for their last generation to justify a new console, it's a lot of work populating a library and their ex-exclusives are now playable on Deck. Which, even if it didn't have thousands of games out of the gate, would actually be a cool mobile PC with guaranteed Linux drivers.

[–] almar_quigley 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I guess I’m saying folks who are interested in a console handheld are probably not also looking at the deck since it is literally a computer. I don’t disagree on the lack of first party and exclusives. I think they can make a great device, it’s just gonna have a huge lack of content much like the psvr2.

That being said I think there’s a chance they go the route of psvr2 and somehow make the handheld compatible with steam so they don’t have to curate a library given the high cost of game development these days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Nah it’s never gonna be able to play steam games as Sony is making money on the games it’s selling and not the hardware.

I think the advantage it would have over the Steam Deck is that you wouldn’t have to tinker to get games playing as it’d just be a normal console.

Personally, as a console gamer, I feel more and more attracted by Linux gaming, but I don’t think I’ll make the jump until physical games are gone for good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And they'll have a locked ecosystem with bullshit exclusives

[–] almar_quigley 0 points 4 days ago

Cool.