The company is aware of the current difficulties of the portable consoles market. Focused on PlayStation 5.
Sony does not think of a successor to PlayStation Vita because they are no longer immersed in the battle for portable consoles. Jim Ryan, president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, has given an extensive interview to the American medium Game Informer, which has taken stock of the 25-year history of the PlayStation brand, console to console; also PS Vita.
The ill-fated laptop launched in the West in February 2012, a technical talent at the time and, today, with a multitude of defenders, failed to fit in the market and was a commercial setback for the Asian giant, which derived all its efforts to the emerging PlayStation 4, which already exceeds 102 million units sold worldwide.
“PlayStation Vita was brilliant in many ways; and his real gaming experience was great, but it is clearly a business in which we are no longer. ” Lights and shadows, however, in a game of which they are no longer participants. To think of a successor to this portable console, which in turn took over from its first iteration in that sector, PSP, is today precipitous.
PS Vita and PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5, streaming and the immediate future of Sony
Because Sony thinks of PlayStation 5, its next generation of home systems with which they hope to convince that hundred users again to continue with them another cycle. Companies like Nintendo opted for a hybrid solution, Nintendo Switch; which even has a portable only version, Nintendo Switch Lite, whose software is shared from the first to the last game.
Ryan does not make any further comments in this regard; In fact, the possible future command of PS5, which we know under the tentative name of DualShock 5, will feature technological innovations such as haptic technology for advanced vibration. In none of the patents – if we stick only to official graphic materials – the possibility of a command that acts as a portable console is raised.
Sony will bet fully on streaming, not in vain, from the next generation. PS Now will be compatible with PlayStation 5; It is not compatible with mobile devices, unlike Microsoft's streaming video game project, its direct competition, with Project xCloud.
The calendar warns: Christmas of 2020. It will be then when we see in stores the new movement of Sony in which it will become its fifth domestic console.
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