Sony could be returning to the full-fledged handheld game console market if the rumors that the Bloomberg vented at the end of the week. According to the newspaper, the idea of a potential new product based on the currently available PlayStation Portal may have started mainly after seeing the success of the Nintendo Switch, but much depends on the actual product launch on what Microsoft plans to pull out of the hat in the segment in the coming years – that is, the release of the new product is still can drag on for years.
The current almost sole ruler of the handheld console market is the local rival of the Japanese, Nintendo, which really cornered the market with the universally usable Switch consoles. Nintendo is expected to introduce the new generation of the Switch sometime next year, which may bring a new boost to sales after a minor setback.
In the field of handheld consoles, besides Nintendo, there are typically smaller, niche players who imagine the future of portable games based on PCs. Such a company is Valve, which sent the Steam Deck into battle in the segment, and Asus, which tried to win over customers from the Japanese with ROG Ally portable game consoles.
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Meanwhile, Sony emphasized at the end of last year that portable game consoles, or more specifically portable screens, are not far from the company. That’s when the PlayStation Portal was introduced, which is actually a console thin client, i.e. it is not suitable for running games on its own, it requires either a PS5 console or, thanks to a new beta function that has just been released, a PlayStation Plus Premium subscription, with which you can currently play about 120 games on the from the PS Plus game catalog via the cloud.
By the way, the Japanese technological multi was once considered one of the main standard bearers of handheld consoles through the highly successful PlayStation Portable (PSP) and the moderately successful PS Vita machines. The decline of handheld consoles in the traditional sense may have been primarily caused by the spread of increasingly powerful, affordable smartphones, as a result of which Sony finally stopped production of the PS Vita in 2019, of which an estimated 15 million copies were sold during its entire eight-year product cycle.
Source: www.hwsw.hu
