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Sony Has A New PlayStation Handheld Console In Development, Report Claims - Insider Gaming (insider-gaming.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Steam Deck shows you can definitely do PS4 level gaming in a portable.

And the PS4 has a decent back catalog.

Just not sure the market is there for people to want to play a bunch of stuff they've already played, but on the go. And I'm not sure they're ready to be abandoned again after the PSP and Vita failed to really live up to expectations.

I just can't see it working for them. Nintendo are plain better at this, don't have a main product to fall back to when it fails to take off.

[–] Misconduct 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The PSP and Vita were great. I don't think the devices themselves were the problem at all

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The hardware was fine (apart from my Vita which would throw errors about the SIM card slot all the time). But they didn't immediately displace Nintendo DS or 3DS, so Sony weren't really interested in keeping them alive.

If this thing can't even play PS4 games, it's dead on arrival. Having launch access to a huge back catalogue is the only thing that could make it interesting. Even then, a lot of the best PS4 games already launched on PC. How are they going to differentiate themselves from the Steam Deck?