Steam Deck proves PlayStation should make a new portable console – Reader’s Feature

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A reader thinks Sony should make a PS Vita 2 and that the success of Valve’s Steam Deck proves that a rival to Nintendo Switch is viable.

Nintendo has been in the video games business far longer than any other company and despite having much less money and resources than Microsoft and Sony manage to survive purely on the quality and creativity of their games and hardware. They don’t get always get it right, sometimes they get it very wrong, but they always bounce back because their business is making games people want to plan and that, at the end of the day, is all you need to be a successful video games company.

Given all their many successes almost everything they do quickly gets copied by everyone else, which is part of why they’re so secretive. But when it comes to portable consoles, Microsoft and Sony have never really seemed to know what to do. Microsoft has never even attempted their own portable, even though you’d think it’d be pretty easy to adapt Surface to being used for games, while Sony went from the enormous success of PSP to the PS Vita – a piece of hardware they seemed desperately embarrassed of the moment it came out.

I have no idea why they acted like that – I think it was rumoured to be Sony America not wanting it and feuding with Japan – but as far as I’m concerned the PS Vita is the best non-hybrid portable ever made and I would love to see a sequel. That thing is beautiful and I still play it today. The controls are great, better than anything Nintendo has ever had; the screen is perfect for the time it was made; and the games line-up is very good considering support was cut short.

When it was mothballed Sony made it clear they weren’t planning to make a follow-up and at the time, when the 3DS was out