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6/14/2025, 9:27:40 AM
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>We need a technology breakthrough for it to happen, FAST, the chip deals are done 2-3 years before the actual mass production
The problem is, any true chip breakthrough would almost have to be some kind of crazy new architecture, which would make simple ports of the PS5 library harder anyway.
Frankly, the enthusiast optimism around Xbox and Playstation's plans for portable consoles strikes me as odd. The tech just isn't there at anything but the niche, hardcore consumer prices the PC handhelds are already going for. Or what we have with the Switch 2 (and no one else is using Nvidia for this either). And they're certainly not there for conveniently running games built for the current stationary consoles. They'll either be super expensive or have nowhere near the compatibility you'd want. Or worst of all, both.
Everything is a problem. The chips, the batteries, even the screens. That's before we get to the none tech related problems of how fucked the economy is around the production and sale of them either. It almost looks like Nintendo accidentally struck gold a second time: with Switch 1 it was with all those Nvidia shield chips that no one wanted combined with their own library. Now it looks like they managed to get a new, fairly competent and "reasonably" priced portable console out just around the time it looks like a lot of stuff is going to make advancement in that arena hit a wall head on. Xbox's current plan with Ally doesn't impress me much (if Microsoft wanted to make a more competent version of Windows for gaming they would've done it ages ago) and I have no clue where Sony's going with the rumored portable PS5, given all the above.
But we'll see.
>We need a technology breakthrough for it to happen, FAST, the chip deals are done 2-3 years before the actual mass production
The problem is, any true chip breakthrough would almost have to be some kind of crazy new architecture, which would make simple ports of the PS5 library harder anyway.
Frankly, the enthusiast optimism around Xbox and Playstation's plans for portable consoles strikes me as odd. The tech just isn't there at anything but the niche, hardcore consumer prices the PC handhelds are already going for. Or what we have with the Switch 2 (and no one else is using Nvidia for this either). And they're certainly not there for conveniently running games built for the current stationary consoles. They'll either be super expensive or have nowhere near the compatibility you'd want. Or worst of all, both.
Everything is a problem. The chips, the batteries, even the screens. That's before we get to the none tech related problems of how fucked the economy is around the production and sale of them either. It almost looks like Nintendo accidentally struck gold a second time: with Switch 1 it was with all those Nvidia shield chips that no one wanted combined with their own library. Now it looks like they managed to get a new, fairly competent and "reasonably" priced portable console out just around the time it looks like a lot of stuff is going to make advancement in that arena hit a wall head on. Xbox's current plan with Ally doesn't impress me much (if Microsoft wanted to make a more competent version of Windows for gaming they would've done it ages ago) and I have no clue where Sony's going with the rumored portable PS5, given all the above.
But we'll see.
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