Sony is reportedly planning a Nintendo Switch-style PlayStation 6 portable | VGC

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• slauraure@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is this gonna be another huge handheld?

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  About time. The PSP and Vita were beautiful devices that gave a great playing experience. Sony obviously knew how to make a good portable, and throwing that away was a big mistake.

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  • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Vita was a little too ahead of it’s time - trying to use psn without consistent network traffic was awful.

    You shouldn’t need to reconnect just to see if you have messages. Hopefully they don’t require propriety memory or abandon the unit months after release either

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    • chloyster@beehaw.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Imo the biggest failure of the bits was the egregiously priced proprietary memory cards. Outrageously expensive for very little space. Made the value proposition compared to the post price drop 3ds (which used micro SDS) a no brainer unfortunately

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Interesting that the article doesn’t mention the Steamdeck and the explosion of portable PC gaming devices as well. The Switch opened the market, but the Steamdeck expanded it and showed there was room for competition.

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  • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s because that market is still niche. It’s “exploding” relative to the population of PC gamers, but outside of that circle, people still find the Switch more appealing than any of those options. Certainly there are people out there for whom the Steam Deck is obviously better than the Switch, but those people are a niche within a niche. Small fries compared to the Switch audience that Sony is eyeing.

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• Ashiggan@eviltoast.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Revival of the Psp, fucking finally?

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  • Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    At this point in time, I wouldn’t get my hopes up.

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• Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  …so a portable PlayStation. docking isn’t really anything different from just plugging it in.

  stupid articles just using company names to generate clicks. literally nothing to do with tendo

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  • SteposVenzny@beehaw.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Handhelds that you can optionally plug into a TV to use the TV screen for aren’t exactly the norm.

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• miguel@fedia.io ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So, another Vita?

  Too little, too late, probably. I love my Vita and my PSPs though, so I might be interested. If it's affordable.

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  • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not exactly. “Nintendo-Switch-style” means it would be part of the PS6 stack, like any game that releases on console PS6 would also have to work on handheld PS6. And docking=the device runs in a higher power mode.

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    • miguel@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeaaaaa, I'll believe it when I see it. That sounds incredibly unlikely.

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