Bloomberg: Sony Interactive Entertainment working on portable PS5

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• zecg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Those who don’t understand Steam Deck are doomed to reinvent it

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    … But worse.

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  • almar_quigley@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • zecg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And they’ll have a locked ecosystem with bullshit exclusives

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• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can’t really say I’m super excited.

  Back in the days, you bought a PSP, and you got a shitload of exclusive games, with an occasional fan-favorite port. It was incredible value, especially for a handheld. Today, unless you’re a Playstation gamer specifically, getting the console isn’t even worth it. Knowing Sony, they will introduce a proprietary storage format yet again too.

  Buying multiple licenses for the same game, across different platform is annoying as well. That’s one of the reasons why the Deck is so massively successful

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  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I agree with you. The PSP (and vita) was amazing because it was also its own thing, and you got games dedicated to it. Not that I don’t find value in a handheld that offers up the same games, I love the switch, but it offers both purposes in one that makes it way more versatile. I don’t really think a system that just plays PS5 games will be as big as they think. It could hit a small market for people that don’t have a system and actually enjoy portable over a system.

    One thing I don’t agree with is that you think they will be 2 different games for sale and not a 1 buy gets it on either ps5 console or handheld? In this day in age seeing how switch and steam deck work I highly doubt that they will push this as 2 games. My guess is they request a mobile settings profile from developers to make sure it runs good enough on the hardware which will most likely be slightly less powerful than the console.

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  • Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My PSP was half it’s own console and half a portable PS1. The PS3 ended up with a massive PS1 catalog and I think all of it was downloadable to the PSP.

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• TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The switch and the steam deck have really changed the game.

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  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have a Switch that I’m almost never using (nor my kids), but yeah the idea is great.

    I’d love a similar concept from Sony even if it’d just be a copy.

    If only I enjoyed nintendo games as much as sony games.

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• JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Starting at $899.99

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• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I assume it’s going to be a cloud connected screen that streams games. There’s no current way to get thermal and power requirements met for PS5 on a handheld. They’re just trying to remove the in-home PS5 requirement from the Portal.

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  • blattrules@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Didn’t they just push that functionality out in beta on the Portal?

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s streaming with ps plus.

      The report said that this shit will be locally powered

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  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, if so, then nevermind.

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• Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Remember when they made a handheld last year? You know the one that requires the ownership of a ps5? Imagine instead of making that they made this instead? No?

  Sony is dumb af.

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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This sounds cool. They could maybe come up with a new snazzy name to differentiate it from the large home console.

  Something to evoke going out and living life, rather than sitting at home in the dark. PS Vitality? Or, they could shorten it.

  The PlayStation Lity!

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• callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’ll fuck it up.

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