Lets just hope Sony continue to support PSVR.

I have a Vita, great machine. Too bad it failed. But yeah, for now Sony should just focus on home consoles.

Sony should stick with home consoles and create their own feeling of hybrid like Nintendo. **NOT** a portable like you think. This is where I think Sony should go and I'll explain why.

In failing to keep up with home consoles, and power that Nintendo never really cared for, Nintendo figured out exactly where they ALWAYS do best: PORTABLES. Nintendo found casuals with Wii. Then, fell hard trying to find their next gimmick to keep them. That was their problem. Nintendo didn't know what to do next. So, each new console was a gimmick. N64 and the ridiculous controller that played expensive cartridges instead of CDs. GameCube was nice. I had two. But the lunch box left it in 3rd that generation. Wii was just a GameCube in disguise with a motion controller that luckily caught on. But catching casuals is a risk. Just ask Microsoft and Kinect. Resulting in casuals dropping Nintendo real quick with Wii U. Going mobile was the right decision by executives because they always succeeded there. Relying on old tech repackaged as a portable for huge profit margins. GB and GBC:(NES), GBA:(SNES), NDS:(N64), 3DS:(VB,Famicom 3D system) to Switch:(portable GC, Wii, Wii U). Nintendo always takes their home console's ideas and makes portables out of them. Always been clear to me what they do. Then repackages the successful games by porting them to portable. But did you notice how Nintendo basically dropped Switch motion games for regular games?

Sony needs to stick with what they do best. And that's home consoles. PlayStation. Since PS1, Sony has grown a market Nintendo wasn't capable of growing. Cooler, edgier marketing, more mature, targeted gamers that grew up on Nintendo but wanted more than Mario and Zelda. Or Sony's tech that always evolved. Sony succeeds on PlayStation home consoles. PSP and Vita were nice. But the market is flooded by cellphones and Nintendo's dominance.

Portables is the last thing Sony should get back into. They should stay the course and make the best home consoles they can make. With some of the best games they can make. And enhance some of those games with VR. Just like Nintendo with the hybrid Switch, VR is, in my opinion, **SONY'S HYBRID**. Sony needs to push VR hard with PSVR 2 making PS5 the best place to play console VR while sticking with AAA, award winning games. VR gives Sony the edge and differentiation from Nintendo's portables and Microsoft's subscription push.

Doesn't mean Sony can't risk adding a portable interface device that connects to PS5 over WiFi or 5G for those that want it. Like Vita TV did with streaming. Why not. But NOT a portable with a platform of games. They should stay clear. Just a mobile screen that can stream and connect to a TV and content from PS5.

PS5 and VR is Sony's best course of action. And the way PS5 is built, it seems that Sony knows as well.

Of course they should, as long as they've learned lessons from their last handheld. Quality competition is always a good thing.

Agreed focus on home consoles and produce amazing games(overtime acquire more talent)

Yeah they don’t need to make one. They just released the PS5 and the current mobile trend is to have a hybrid console aka the switch or play games on your phone. Unless they release a portable PS5, then it will flop pretty hard.

I still prefer the PSP over the Vita since it was supported better.

Agreed the ps vita was the best handheld console I owned. It's just sad that Sony gave up on it after like 2 years. So yer just focus on the ps5 now.

I would be down for a psp2 where you could download and play all your existing ps4 games on the go.

The only reason they should make a handheld is if they AGGRESSIVELY support it with games.

That didn't happen with the vita. on top of that, they made memory proprietary and ridiculously expensive. Death sentence.

So yeah, they should stick to their strengths and keep making amazing home consoles, IMO.

Absolutely agreed!!! All it does is water down the already limited number of studios as they are tasked with making hand held exclusives versus console exclusives.

Plot twist - They already made one, but bot groups are sitting on all the inventory. Oh wait that is just the PS5.

Honestly i dug out my Vita last week and I forgot how good it is. Its a shame it wasn't supported

The Vita is a great hand held I enjoyed it when I took it on the road with me for work. The PSP I enjoyed as well great I own quite a few movies for it even Advent Children and they look great on a screen that size. If Sony did make a new hand held I would buy it PSP and Vita are worth it for homebrews and emulators. Wish there was away to play PSP and Vita games on the PS5 so many great games still pissed FF Crisis Core never got a console port still my fave PSP game. Hand held market is mostly Nintendo which wears the crown and cellphones with cloud service Sony would have to rethink how they would make and market the Vita 2. Sony just doesn't see the numbers to warrant a Vita 2 I mean they pulled the Xperia phone out of the North American market due to low sales numbers and it catching on.

Well with those mini pc handhelds coming out soon that are essentially on par with a ps4 there is definitely a market for a high end portable devise however niche. Not to mention the success of the Switch. PSP3 would probably flop but I would still buy it.

I don't imagine they were anyway.

At best they can make something like the Razer Kishi which makes any Android mobile device with USB C essentially like an Xbox/Switch hybrid and allow you to stream PS5/PS4 games.

I agree.

Can't say I miss handhelds all that much. Any time I play the games now that I loved on them like Dissidia, Metroid Fusion/Zero Mission or P3P I play on the TV.

I disagree. Support aside the Vita was and still is an amazing little gadget. Now more than ever, especially with the Switch's popularity, a handheld would make a lot of sense to gain back their japanese audience. Plus I also just want another handheld

I was Rank 1 on Portable Ops and Portable Ops+ in NA. Used to play under my blanket staying up late on school nights. Man those were good times. I miss my PSP. I'd welcome a handheld but only if scalability worked right and support was good.

A handheld ps3

The era of handhelds is over. Smartphones have replaced handhelds

Not related to this but why was this site down again?. N4G goes down more than any other site I visit.

I heard a rumor they working on a psp5g. That will use the 5g network and wifi6 capabilities plus remote play ps5 and be able to play playstation now aswell as have it's own library of great titles.

If they do, they should include it in their games pass if they ever make one.

I prefer a PSVR2 more than a handheld.

Handheld gaming like this could take off if developers actually made games for the handheld. 🤷‍♂️

big sony fan and i agree

I agree. I would focus on a play anywhere strategy by allowing games to be played on cell phones, tablets, laptops or desktops with no lag, or performance drop. The next step (well to me) is the combination of console and portability being the industry standard while ushering complete VR experiences as to replace the console market and become one of the standards.

Sony never fully supported the Vita. It had great specs! Better than any handheld at the time and perhaps till this day.

If they were to make one.....They should make one with a 5G antenna that does remote play with PS5 and PS4. It also has to have controls that have 2 triggers and 2 bumpers as well as two analog sticks that click in for L3 and R3. They also need to upgrade the WiFi antenna. I would buy this since I travel for work. Just sayin'...

I wouldn't mind if they do. I mean we have Series S. If they could do a portable that can do 720p with at least 30fps for every game that comes out on PS5 or is currently available on PS4 + cross game save obviously it would be somewhat like a Switch Lite on steroids. I think the idea of being able to continue playing your games on the go without internet connection required works for Nintendo. If you provide access to a catalog of games first (PS4+PS5) you are not forced to do exclusives for the portable. People would buy it just for the portability. I see money if done the right way.

Nah Vita 2 or death for me, thanks!

Imho the only instance where i would agree would be if sony magically managed to run full blown current gen games, maybe with 1080p resolution instead of 4k but everthing else untouched, for an affordable price AND an OK battery lifetime so they wouldn't have to split resources for developing games for each device. Ofcourse this is VERY unrealistic, so no i don't want a handheld from sony

Jacob St-Amour shouldnt bother writing articles anymore

They didn’t bother with the last one, which I loved.

I very much agree

I would love another one, or more vita stock.

Agreed. Handheld gaming is dead (not counting the Switch) thanks to mobile gaming and Sony should just focus their resources on PS5. I love my hacked Vita but that system died way too soon.

If they just made a portable/handheld PS4 with a 720p display and cross-buy support they'd make a fortune.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau