Sony Going Disc-Less Could Be a Part of a Larger Strategy for the PlayStation 6 Being a Portable Device to Go “Beyond the Living Room”

[Peter_Brosdahl]

A revisit to a recent Q&A interview with Sony President and CEO Hideaki Nishino provides a new perspective regarding what the company’s goals may be with PlayStation 6. The Q&A between The Verge and the Sony exec originally appeared to be a somewhat cut-and-dried piece, but upon re-examining Sony’s answers, it looks as if there […]

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[Skillz]

Following Nintendo?

 

[DrezKill]

I wouldn't mind them trying again with a handheld. I got a lot of use out of my soft-modded PSP, and I've been trying to get my hands on a PS Vita for years. A friend of mine is gonna sell me one he soft-modded himself.

Following Nintendo?

Yeah I'm wondering if they're gonna do something similar to the Switch 1 and 2 and have a handheld system that can be docked and played like a home console. It's hard to imagine them going that route exclusively cuz that would be a limitation on the hardware power of the PS6. Switch is more powerful than the 7th-gen consoles (PS3, X360, and even though Wii U is 8th-gen it's basically 7th-gen-class, with a better GPU but worse CPU), but it doesn't match base XB1 let alone base PS4. Switch 2 only catches them up to around base PS2 levels of performance. I don't see Sony crippling the PS6 that way. Maybe what they will do is have the PS6 home console, a weaker handheld that is still PS6-based, and then you can play your PS6 games on either console. Similar to XBSX with XBSS, but if XBSS was a handheld console.

 

[Uvilla]

The great streaming conspiracy.

When the AI bubble bursts all them data centers will become streaming gaming centers as Sony buys them at fire sale prices.