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NEWS: Bloomberg: Sony Working on New Handheld Console

We'll see. People have not forgotten how quickly they moved on from the Vita, and the PSVR2 was eerily similar. Sony would have to commit for more than a year before going back to the main console.

Also, I'm not sure what market they would serve here. Part of why Sony bailed on the Vita was deciding that people preferred to game on their phones, but Nintendo went on to prove that portable gaming is still a thing. Will Sony be able to pull off console games in a portable format like the Switch. Heck, new iphones have versions of rather new Resident Evil games on them, and handheld PC gaming seems to be growing. It may be far too late by the time they get something out there.

We'll see. People have not forgotten how quickly they moved on from the Vita, and the PSVR2 was eerily similar. Sony would have to commit for more than a year before going back to the main console.

We'll see. People have not forgotten how quickly they moved on from the Vita, and the PSVR2 was eerily similar. Sony would have to commit for more than a year before going back to the main console.

Also, I'm not sure what market they would serve here. Part of why Sony bailed on the Vita was deciding that people preferred to game on their phones, but Nintendo went on to prove that portable gaming is still a thing. Will Sony be able to pull off console games in a portable format like the Switch. Heck, new iphones have versions of rather new Resident Evil games on them, and handheld PC gaming seems to be growing. It may be far too late by the time they get something out there.

I think in Japan it could succeed, but in the west no. Sony basically did a whole 1st party abandonment of the Vita expecting just 3rd parties to keep the whole thing afloat. If it just plays the base PS5 games at a 720p screen with FSR on it has a chance but if its own platform they would need to support it in the west with their own development teams which they are cutting and games of the that caliber would need large teams still. Price is also a huge concern along with size of the thing, and then you got Nintendo who know how this stuff works on the verge of a new system and who will support the system which they are on a roll with their software (I could see a new main line 3D Mario game or even Mario Kart launching with it!) so my magic 8 ball is saying "outlook not so good".

^ Huh TIL. Maybe it was owners from the west their way of coping by making it seemed liked it did well in Japan?

The funny thing about the PS Vita demise is that it didn't actually had that strong of a third-party support, I know people claim the Vita did well in Japan, but it was crushed by the 3DS and in part it was due that many Japanese third-party developers didn't develop anything huge for the PS Vita, the PSP got things like Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core, Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, Portable Ops and Acid and plenty of Monser Hunter games which became huge hits in Japan, but while the 3DS wasn't as successful as the original DS it got a considerable amount of support of Japanese third-parties, even Capcom developed mainline Monster Hunter games for the system and Enix decided to make a version of Dragon Quest XI. The only major third-party for the Vita that I can think of was Persona 4 Golden, a updated port of a PS2 game, and also Danganronpa

According to Gamefaq's release list, there were more games released physically for Vita in Japan than 3DS. That's despite the obvious disparity in hardware sales. So no, it didn't have weak third party support in Japan. What it did lack was notable exclusive content. Most of those games were multi-platform titles, like God Eater, Sword Art Online, Dragon Quest Builders, Gundam, SRW, etc. There was a period of a few years where outside of really high end games, pretty much every Japanese third party PlayStation title was being released on PS3, Vita and PS4. But that was a sign of changing times. With few exceptions, third party exclusives don't exist anymore. At most, you get maybe 6-18 months before a game hits other platforms.