>>1044028 >You can't go to a Target and buy one, which is where most of the money from these devices comes from. Anon, do you remember that prior to the internet, a lot of companies were profitable and making money despite never owning any real estate? For example, there was the rise of the "shopping channel" in the 80's. And prior to that, you had a century of the Sears catalog that sold literally anything. <First pic is a fucking house you could buy entirely through mail order. In fact, the Sears catalog is where Atari first became profitable when they started expanding outside of the arcade sector to home consoles and computers. Even systems as "late" as the Game Gear and the CDi were still advertised in such mail order catalogs.

>>1044028 retail stores would help to get tier 0 normalfags (the grandmas and parents buying for christmas) but even Online-only, they'll push several units. The biggest advantage is the SONY brand that normalfags and black people love. However a question arises - if steam deck were to be released on retail stores before this (and assuming this is a steam deck-like device) would valve's early advantage help them enough?

>>1044028 Where the fuck are finding PS portals, not that I've actively looked for one, but I legitimately haven't seen one in any store locally or online since the thing launched nor have I seen anyone use one or talk about it. I do see people regularly using Switches though and stores are always packed with those.

>>1043988 >No just find it ironic that someone is using "dicklet" as an insult on a site that exists solely "for" so-called "dicklets". Which implies that said fag is a "dicklet" himself, otherwise the retard wouldn't be posting here in the first place. are you asian anon? i'm indian and 4 inch, i know the pinching hand emoji well

>Xbox Handheld Confirmed by Microsoft Gaming CEO, Phil Spencer https://archive.is/NhE8q

>>1044193 Phil has been dropping hints that they were working on a handheld for some time. If Sony DOESN'T make a new portable - they will be the only major game platform which doesn't have a portable system. This is also why you shouldn't hold out too much hope for Sony's handheld to be a "Vita2" with exclusive software. >Nintendo's handheld IS their main console. >Microsoft's handheld will be an Xbox clone of the Steam Deck >PC/Steam's handheld is just a PC with a console interface. There's no way in hell Sony is going to answer this market by making a dedicated stand-alone handheld which doesn't play PS5/PS4 games and stream PS5 games primarily. Not to mention having a dedicated handheld device as it's own platform would require them and other developers to allocate resources into making PSP2/PSVita2 titles which AAA studios cannot afford - especially with the growing costs of software development going into NEXT gen. All of their smaller studios who could make really good AA/Portable games were either axed to reduce overhead, or have become outsourcing slaves for AAA.

>>1044201 >and stream PS6 games primarily fuk

>>1044193 This was known since around the time of the Steam Deck's launch, though I don't think Spencer ever officially confirmed it. Judging by Xbox's other hardware offerings I'm not sure how big it'll be. They'll want it to be a Game Pass machine, and I still doubt they'll fix Windows up enough to feel good on a handheld.

>>1044201 Who fugging sed people want exclusives?! All I want for Christmas is for Sony to dogeza itself into the core of the earth then stop being hostile to JP developers and allow them to make and port vidya with old-school fanservice for men with testosterone in their phalluses to their shitty Vita successor, because it's not like they have much of a choice if they want to stop being a broke laughingstock. Hell, they bent the knee already with Stellar Blade being the only worthwhile exclusive title any Soyny pony remembers, and that's going to evaporate the instant it hits PC. People WANT a port machine, why do you think it's a portable? Nobody wants to buy into the exclusive model anymore as the lump sum means you run short of recouping production costs when nobody fucking buys it. And considering most games, if you aren't a complete tard, downscale rather easily, I don't see why we need handheld-specific games when inversely those games are already getting ported to the big screen anyways in most modern releases.

>>1044193 I thought ROG Ally was their handheld? They pushed gamepass with that thing. >>1044232 True. Exclusives are system attractors but having a good catalog of games (regardless of exclusivity) is a good system justifier. Makes purchase decision easier.

>>1044237 People who don't care about exclusivity can buy machines that play a good catalog of games regardless of exclusivity already, like the Deck, Ally, and Legion lines. For a Soyny handheld without exclusives to be worth a damn, it must be better than editions of those out then, or it's better to buy those. Deck 2, Ally 2, Legion 2, anything else on the market. Fat fucking chance from Soyny, it'll be a jailed down piece of shit that can't even use Steam.

>>1044240 And Sony's few exclusives are mostly timed exclusives and mostly dogshit. Like, Stellar Blade which is "good" like The Coffin of Andy and Leyley is "good," it's good for a couple whacks of your wang then gets shelved forever. There's a reason Stellar Blade talk is all about outfit censorship and not the game, there's no game worth talking about. It's style over substance. Eye candy with shit characterization, a predictable and dogshit story, frustrating RPG mechanics, poorly executed gameplay, repetitive combat, and boring open-world areas. It gets clung to because Piss5 is an exclusives void where timed exclusives go to die. If I want hot eye candy without mindnumbing dogshit I'll just play Bayonetta. https://store.steampowered.com/app/460790/Bayonetta/

>>1044237 >I thought ROG Ally was their handheld? They pushed gamepass with that thing. That's ASUS, M$ got partnership with them, and they push GamePass on any handheld that uses Windows, like the Legion Go.

>>1044242 >comparing an action game with a VN The reason nobody is talking about the game itself as opposed to something which doesn't require in-game knowledge is because that would require people to own a PS5 in the first place, no need to make such weird extrapolation otherwise.

>>1044255 GayPass is gay garbage but you're not forced into it. Legion Go was selling at the record low price of $472 two days ago and has the best hardware and compatibility right now.

>>1044256 Look at the Stellar Blade subreddit yourself, it's full of retards just screenposting Stellar Blade shots instead of talking about Stellar Blade. The median and mode average for the comments per screenshot in the Hot tab is fucking 3 and this is from Retardditors dumb enough to actually own a PS5. There's no game worth talking about. Stellar Blade is an action-adventure game and The Coffin of Andy and Leyley is an adventure game, but that isn't the comparison anyway. The comparison's "wang-whacking games." They're wang-whacking material, good for whacking your wang, busting a nut, and then dropping, because: >Stellar Blade is style over substance. Eye candy with shit characterization, a predictable and dogshit story, frustrating RPG mechanics, poorly executed gameplay, repetitive combat, and boring open-world areas. It gets clung to because Piss5 is an exclusives void where timed exclusives go to die.

>>1044267 nigger don't do my girl nemlei dirty comparing based and incestpilled Andy and Leyley to some BS-Five trash by Shit Up or I will fuck your sister

My first concern would be how quickly it could burn my balls off. See, the thing about a portable PS5 is that it's going to get fucking hot without the right architecture to circulate and vent heat. Valve figured out how not to make their thing melt.

>>1043413 I wonder how many months will it last until Soyny simply abandons it, like they did with their other portables.

>>1044326 Sony's just like my dad!

>>1044336 Are you black or Irish?

>>1043413 >inspired by the Steam Deck >planned 8-inches If it was smaller I would be more interested, oh well.

>>1044358 According to people familiar with its development who have asked not to be named, the plans changed to 5 inches.

>>1043413 No trackpads, no buy

>>1044326 >Soyny simply abandons it, like they did with their other portables. This is granted. And there will still be retards complaining that it was abandoned, not checking the company's historic with their previous handhelds.

>>1044339 I'm Irish and Black, homies call me Irack.

>>1044366 That seems like a good setup for a late 90's/early 00's vidya ad. A hot chick walking past a Chad who tells her about his hot 8 inches, to which she recoils and tells him she likes smaller guys. She then walks away with this stereotypical nerdy guy playing the game system and who's 5 inches is what all the ladies like. Maybe with a tagline like "Smaller is Better". I wouldn't expect a PSP2/PSVita2 to actually have a screen size under 8/7 inches if they want it to play PS4/PS5 games natively. They're not going to be able to miniaturize it that far and still maintain a reasonable thermal profile.

>>1044715 Irack Obama?

>>1044757 get a job, nigger.

>>1043980 >that's the biggest bullshit statement I've ever heard Ohno... did someone pay a bunch of money to play on a locked down exclusives box?

>>1044794 No, because he's implying he plays a PS5, which doesn't have exclusives. >Astrobot You said "exclusiveS." He's allowed to have one.

>>1045656 No Homers?

>>1045656 I'm reversing Astro-Bot to But-Astro because But-Astro's the canned response of Pee S 5 owners with buyer's remorse for not having exclusives.

I, for one, can't wait to pay $10 a month to connect it to the Internet when I have a $1400 smartphone in the other pocket

>>1044794 >ah yes lets buy a smaller prebuilt pc with limited support and shit load of shovelware and scam games >lets call it the best console because it has games in it lmao hes not wrong though

>>1046607 >he's not wrong Anytime someone says this I assume samefagging, because when I was a vol on 8prime it was a favored phrase by proxyfags