Sony on the future direction of PS3 and NGP

[hova1]

Both handhelds and home consoles have their own merit, some things work better on the go, some things work better on your couch. I see no reason to "give up" on either!

... and fighting games aren't the same thing when you play on a handheld!

that is not the point.
You have to imagine the handheld as a console.
It would have wireless controllers on their own. So basically you would put it on a dock that is connected to the TV and then you would have DualShock3 controller pair with the dock.
If it had wireless HDMI it wouldn't even need a dock at all and you would pair controllers with the handheld directly.
So you could still play fighting games with arcade stick even with another player in your room.
The cool thing is if you need to go somewhere you could just unplug the handheld and play the game on-the-go.
Of course the problem here is graphic power. If the PS4 is a handheld, people would be expecting a more powerfull device than the PS3.
That's not very difficult seeing as the current development is going further in smaller, less power hungry graphic chips and CPU because of Smartphones.
The thing i am concerned about is backwards compatibility with PS2 and PS3 games. I hope that if Sony is really going in the handheld direction they will not forget past Playstation titles.

 

[moose3]

Well you would not need a docking station with TV's now coming with integrated wireless, or LAN connectivity, wireless HDMI, etc. So the video could be streamed from one central unit acting as the 'base station' collecting signals from other systems for controller input, and the system's screen for extra info or separate views. Then 'accessories' they can charge more for backwards compatibility for old TV's. Who knows, maybe they could even use each unit as some sort of distributed computing system, depends on how creative the engineers are, and what tech is in the pipeline.

Play multiplayer with a friend next to you, they have you buy another $30 controller for this gen. Next gen: you both have to have the $400 console, and if they can force everyone to buy a copy of the $60 game as well to play, then that's more money for them. Remember this is a company, the CEO probably cares more for how much money they can squeeze out of the customer.

Ask not what your console can do for you, ask how your console can boost the company's bottom line.

 

[Pyrofyr]

Very weird news, I hope that at least one of them (MS or Sony) stay in the console race, I'd hate to see it be just Nintendo around, as much as I love them, there needs to be more than one console and I would HATE to see Apple take MS or Sony's spot.

 

[KingVamp]

Very weird news, I hope that at least one of them (MS or Sony) stay in the console race, I'd hate to see it be just Nintendo around, as much as I love them, there needs to be more than one console and I would HATE to see Apple take MS or Sony's spot.

What you saying, a "new" overprice Apple console?

 

[Hop2089]

Ask not what your console can do for you, ask how your console can boost the company's bottom line.

The absolute Truth, I'm glad that Sony is going more for handhelds for the rest of this generation, seriously I buy more handheld titles from Sony and Nintendo than console titles and there is more variety in the handheld titles than the console titles this generation.