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I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm saying it's not worth the investment. Nintendo needed to do it because it's their only console, so their stakes are much hi

I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm saying it's not worth the investment. Nintendo needed to do it because it's their only console, so their stakes are much higher. As a customer and developer, you know Nintendo were going to keep supporting it because otherwise they're out of the console business. Can you trust Sony to keep supporting a new handheld when they've already dropped support for a handheld once with the Vita? Sony need a bigger investment in games and developers to build that trust compared to Nintendo. Doing that would just take money they could be investing in the other console while adding confusion to the libraries: "Why is this Playstation game not coming to MY Playstation?"

hammyhavoc 3y ago
Consumers didn't struggle in understanding PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita in how the differed versus home consoles. Consumers didn't struggle in understanding Nintendo Wii compatibility versus the Nintendo DS et al. With that said, it's a different era. I think that even Nintendo realize that a Switch successor would need to be pretty special to succeed versus just making controllers for smartphones and making games available via the respective stores. Sony already make games available on PC. Joy-Con-compatible smartphone cases probably make sense. However, that then opens up some degree of fragmentation and lack of consistency of experience.
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