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.
Comment on Bloomberg: Sony Interactive Entertainment working on portable PS5
zecg@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Those who don’t understand Steam Deck are doomed to reinvent it
almar_quigley@lemmy.world 4 months ago
zecg@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 4 months 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.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
And they’ll have a locked ecosystem with bullshit exclusives
almar_quigley@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Cool.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
… But worse.