New PlayStation Handheld Looking Even More Likely as Digital Foundry Backs Up Reports | Push Square
There has been a fair bit of noise lately about a potential new portable games console from PlayStation, and now, Digital Foundry has weighed in on the subject.
Speaking in the above video (time stamped), DF's John Linneman comments on the recent reports that Sony is working on a new handheld.
«We actually heard about this handheld some months ago from a couple sources specifically,» he says. The report from Bloomberg «confirmed what we had seen and heard off the record about this existing».
Interestingly, Linneman adds that the device sounds «further out» than he initially thought, but he concludes that a future in which users are offered a home console and a handheld is «very likely at this point».
After discussing the possibility of a Steam Deck-like PlayStation device on Push Square, the vast majority of readers are very much in favour of it. Furthermore, 26 per cent of our readers said they'd be willing to pay up to $399 for such a console, with smaller percentages happy to pay more.
Update: Dev apparently started after PS Portal launch
All hands on deck
PlayAnywhereStation
Not cheaping out
With so many sources corroborating the story, it does seem very likely that Sony is actively working on this. Hopefully it all bears fruit at some stage down the line.
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I really hope they don't try and develop it's own games. That just wouldn't be sustainable. It should either play PS5 games or 'lowest setting' PS6 games. (I'm assuming a 2027-28 release as far as tech is concerned)
If NO physical games = NO buy from me.
Also, I want more 3rd party kids games on new PS
