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.
Those who don’t understand Steam Deck are doomed to reinvent it
… But worse.
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.
And they’ll have a locked ecosystem with bullshit exclusives
Cool.
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.
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!
Starting at $899.99
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
The switch and the steam deck have really changed the game.
