Gaming Sony files for "Switch-like" Patent

[Xzi]

Even if it was filed when the switch started on the drawing board. They should have been making a better, more affordable, third party support, newer version of their failed handheld instead of making useless patents that apparently never went anywhere.

Meanwhile, one of the best handhelds ever made died of neglect.

Hard to blame them when they're so dominant in the home console market right now. The good news is that Vita/portable console-focused devs can consolidate toward Switch.

 

[WhiteMaze]

Hard to blame them when they're so dominant in the home console market right now. The good news is that Vita/portable console-focused devs can consolidate toward Switch.

Sigh. I guess..

In any case, I just posted this since the thing looks so much like the freaking switch.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Hard to blame them when they're so dominant in the home console market right now.

only because mic is jumping ship to pc sony pretty much have no competition now and ninty don't care about being competitive they just do whatever they want regardless

 

[TheCyberQuake]

This is old news my dude

 

[jefffisher]

maybe the switch is just a clever ploy to finally put sony out of business nintendo knows sony can't sell handhelds so they make the ultimate handheld for sony to copy and fail at.

 

[DeslotlCL]

Dont know wich is worse, the oldness of this news or the op bashing sony making nintendo fanboys look as bad as the sony ones.

 

[Thirty3Three]

I am not entirely positive if this has been posted or not, so any moderators feel free to remove or lock the thread if it has.

Looks like Sony filed for a patent that very much resembles the Switch, months ago.

I'm speechless.

On the bright side, if this thing becomes real it might come with Super Smash Kratos for Vitaendo Swish!

Can't wait to play Crash Bandicoot Breath of the 4K!

Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/02/17/sony-files-patent-for-what-looks-like-a-switch-esque-handheld

(Can't believe I screwed up the source link. Fixed now.)

This is old.

 

[AlexanderLS]

Right, Like the vita isn't basically a switch anyways...
Both are "portable" gaming devices that have touch screens and buttons.
If anybody copied somebody Nintendo copied the nVidia Shield.
The internals and external appearance of nVidia shield tablet and Switch, nearly identical.

 

[Mr. Wizard]

Right, Like the vita isn't basically a switch anyways...
Both are "portable" gaming devices that have touch screens and buttons.
If anybody copied somebody Nintendo copied the nVidia Shield.
The internals and external appearance of nVidia shield tablet and Switch, nearly identical.

All tablet form factors look the same, that's not Nintendo copying anything, it's just the natural evolution of things.
Nintendo didn't "copy" the shield internals, they simply went to the best SoC manufacturer they could find, who just happened to release a tablet in the past. I guess they could have went to AMD but why?

 

[Bladexdsl]

Nintendo copied the nVidia Shield.

but it has an nvidia chip in it

 

[s157]

Dont know wich is worse, the oldness of this news or the op bashing sony making nintendo fanboys look as bad as the sony ones.

Fanboys bashing other products/companies are sadly commonplace now. Especially when the argument of "THEY DID THIS FIRST!" comes into it. What should be a friendly rivalry turns into seething hatred. Eventually you'll have nintendo fanboys calling any hater a sony fanboy when the switch receives rather unjust hate from all types of people, and you'll have people who are fully aware of the flaws with nintendo and their console yet still enjoying it being called slaves to nintendo and the likes. Both extremists of these issues are equally obnoxious.

That being said, I was actually hoping that there'd be a PSVITA2 with better support, as the vita still is one of my favorite consoles.