[HN Gopher] Sony confirms its working on a new Playstation porta...
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       Sony confirms its working on a new Playstation portable, codenamed
       Project Q
        
       Author : brandrick
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2023-05-24 21:17 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | 8kingDreux8 wrote:
       | This is interesting. As a father in a house with only one PS5, I
       | hope it allows concurrent play. It would suck to be on a trip,
       | and not able to play cause my dudes are watching Youtube at the
       | house.
        
       | rektide wrote:
       | Supposedly a remote steaming device. I was going to say, good
       | luck competing with Asus Ally & future AMD chips especially!
        
         | coffeebeqn wrote:
         | I mean they would just buy AMD chips and PlayStation certainly
         | has much better chances of making a portable console stick than
         | asus
        
       | RobotToaster wrote:
       | Why would you want a streaming handheld?
       | 
       | The places you would want to use a handheld (trains, planes, &c)
       | all tend to have unreliable or no wifi.
        
         | tapoxi wrote:
         | As a dad, because my kid is using the TV.
        
         | delecti wrote:
         | I use handhelds plenty just because I like the formfactor. Also
         | sometimes the TV is in use, or I want to play in a different
         | room.
        
         | nocsi wrote:
         | So I can play tucked in bed. Most of my ps5 gameplay has been
         | that 1 hour window of time before I fall asleep
        
       | mepian wrote:
       | Reminds me of the Wii U gamepad.
        
       | honkycat wrote:
       | Everyone keeps trying to sell us streaming gaming, and I'm sorry,
       | it just is bad.
       | 
       | It is too laggy and too disconnected for me to enjoy it. It
       | constantly cuts out and makes me reconnect. No thanks.
        
       | macjohnmcc wrote:
       | Already bought into the PlayStation Portable and the Vita. I
       | think I'll skip this next one.
        
       | vivaldidev wrote:
       | Too bad it's not a Steam Deck or ROG Ally competitor, to enable
       | native games to be played on device..
        
         | shmerl wrote:
         | A better question is when will Sony support Vulkan instead of
         | constant NIH. Nintendo does.
        
           | Operyl wrote:
           | To be fair, only the Switch does. Xbox One/Series Families
           | and PS4/5 do not. It's not just a "Sony thing".
        
       | gtop3 wrote:
       | The big players all seem to be interested in 'portables' that
       | feel very large and cumbersome to carry.
       | 
       | I'd be much more interested in a PSVita or even GBA Micro sized
       | device.
        
       | devops3 wrote:
       | Interesting
        
       | koito17 wrote:
       | I still have a Japan model PS Vita that was manufactured circa
       | 2018. It is unfortunate the hardware is stuck in 2014 (including
       | the bundled WebKit!!). Through a Vita->SD converter and a
       | jailbreak, I have nearly 40 games in this device. It has great
       | battery life and is truly portable. I also recall last year a few
       | new releases made for the Vita in the Japan PS Store, but due to
       | the SSL certs in the Vita, you need to purchase the games on a
       | PS4 device then transfer to the handheld, or something like that.
       | Very unfortunate because from every angle it seems like
       | deliberate sabotage by Sony, and the platform is basically dead,
       | but not to me. I'm still yet to finish all of the games I have on
       | the device.
       | 
       | If Sony releases a new handheld, I hope they took lessons on how
       | poorly they managed the Vita.
        
       | detaro wrote:
       | Streaming from your existing console is an interesting choice.
       | No/less server costs, but also a bunch of extra latency if you
       | are away from home. So maybe mostly for in-house streaming? would
       | have to be relatively cheap to justify itself for that IMHO, but
       | that's possible.
        
       | carlhjerpe wrote:
       | It'd be pretty cool if games could use it to argument playing on
       | the TV too, like multi-player gaming on one console with separate
       | displays, for games that don't need all CPU power that is, or
       | extra stats or whatever in some triple A game.
        
         | bluefirebrand wrote:
         | The Wii-U did this and it was a massive flop.
        
         | nocsi wrote:
         | You can already do that. Just turn on your tv and remote play
         | in, it'll be seen as another controller.
        
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