The PlayStation 6 is going to break the gaming industry, and our bank accounts, but the inevitable financial burden of owning one sounds like it’s about to get worse.
According to leaksSonyis indeed making plans for thePlayStation 6, but it’s also planning a handheld console as well.
This will be different to the PlayStation Portal which only allows for streaming games from your PS5
It’s a similar move toXbox, as the head of Xbox Phil Spencer confirmed that ahandheld is on the cardsbut it won’t exist for many, many years.
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Nintendo is already in the handheld market with the Nintendo Switch, and leaked designs for theNintendo Switch 2seemingly confirm the company won’t be changing its stance on portable gaming.
Hardware leaker zhangzhonghaosharedthe information online, which saysPlayStationwill continue to work with AMD and future consoles should be backwards compatible with the PlayStation 5, possibly the PlayStation 4 as well.
It sounds like a more high-tech version of the PlayStation Vita, but obviously one that works with the existing library of PlayStation games rather than needing its own.
Given the popularity and success of Valve’sSteamDeck it’s obvious why gaming companies like PlayStation and Xbox are now in a mad dash to get their own portable gaming hardware out as well.
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Whether Sony’s portable console can compete or not is yet to be seen, especially since so many of its games like God Of Warand Marvel’s Spider-Man are on PC anyway, so you can just use a Steam Deck.
Topics:PlayStation,PlayStation 5,Sony
