It's a non-buy after the way they treated the Vita.

You can't have a handheld if you don't make games for it and, no, hundreds of crappy shovelware indie games that can be played on the devices people already own do not count.

Part of me thinks this will be DOA (dead on arrival). They’ve lost a good chunk of the abandoned Vita playerbase (me included) and the current gen are either all on the steam deck or other derivatives.

This would be a good moment for Steam to begin a non-stop marketing campaign in Japan

I hope its a handheld that can play downgraded PS5 and PS4 games instead of only handheld games made for it. What drew me to the switch was that it is just one main console that can be portable, and same with the Steam Deck of it playing the same copies of my PC games in handheld.

Hey I've seen this one before. It's a classic.

As someone who owns a Vita, and loves it. This needs to be one of two things.

1. A Steam Deck Clone with access to Steam, that way when they abandon it, I can still play newer games, even if they're indis

2. Backwards Compatible with PS4 games, that way they have a software library and I don't need to worry about games.

Otherwise, this device will be all digital, with a proprietary OS, locked down box which will be abandoned in 2 years unless it can somehow eclipse the Steam Deck in sales.

You read it here first. It will be called the PlayStation Deck

Holup! A portable that plays PS4 and PS5 games??

Why did they just release the Portal then? I know it is for streaming FROM your console but still.

One can only hope. I still use my vita regularly. The handheld whatever that they released last year wasn't a good replacement since it was remote play only.

I appreciate the balls of trying to compete in that marketplace still. They’ll need a killer exclusive to draw anyone away from the massive amount of content available for the Deck.

Handhelds exist right now that can play the PS5 pc ports of games pretty well, they’re just not that cheap. Sure, Sony could have had a handheld that plays PS4 games natively, but it probably would have cost more than the PS5 and with a terrible battery life.

Whenever Sony launches a PS6, I imagine PS4/5 capable mobile chips will be cheap enough for Sony to sell a handheld at the same price if not less than their home console. Then you can just use streaming to play PS5 Pro or PS6 games (and beyond) remotely.

I believe we got the portal as a stop-gap to discourage users from just buying steam decks (which I did) and migrating to steam, but I think a dedicated Sony handheld, with all its haptics and build quality, would be a hell of a device for people with an extensive PS library such as myself to own. I bought my deck (and will keep it) to play retro treasures that aren’t easily available on console, but would more than likely buy a new Sony handheld over a Deck 2 in the future.

Doubt it's a fully handheld console. Maybe something similar to the PS5 controller with the screen in the middle they released last year?

Steam Deck shows you can definitely do PS4 level gaming in a portable.

And the PS4 has a decent back catalog.

Just not sure the market is there for people to want to play a bunch of stuff they've already played, but on the go. And I'm not sure they're ready to be abandoned again after the PSP and Vita failed to really live up to expectations.

I just can't see it working for them. Nintendo are plain better at this, don't have a main product to fall back to when it fails to take off.

Third time's the charm, I guess? I'd at least be interested to see what this ends up looking like, given just how different the handheld gaming space is now compared to when they launched the Vita.