Digital Foundry has backed up recent claims that Sony is working on a new PlayStation handheld. Last month, Bloomberg reported that Sony is developing a portable console capable of playing PS5 games. He stated that the company was in the “early stages” of creating the device, which is still years away from a possible launch.
Repeatedly fucking your own customers has consequences. Ask Sega.
PSP owners were gouged for Memory Sticks, then gouged again for special Memory Sticks, then gouged for an entirely new kind of Memory Stick and digital purchases instead of physical discs, and wow hey why isn’t anyone excited about the $300 Vita?
This was not aided by how amazing the PSP was as an emulation device, and how Sony kept breaking that. Nobody wanted to buy games newer than their latest cracked firmware… let alone a whole new handheld, with harsher DRM.
Repeatedly fucking your own customers has consequences. Ask Sega.
PSP owners were gouged for Memory Sticks, then gouged again for special Memory Sticks, then gouged for an entirely new kind of Memory Stick and digital purchases instead of physical discs, and wow hey why isn’t anyone excited about the $300 Vita?
This was not aided by how amazing the PSP was as an emulation device, and how Sony kept breaking that. Nobody wanted to buy games newer than their latest cracked firmware… let alone a whole new handheld, with harsher DRM.