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[Woopah]

Somehow you're still not getting that individual games don't need to launch on a PlayStation handheld.

I'm not saying it will get individual games, I'm saying it needs new games.

As in, MH Wilds won't have too much of an effect on the handheld's sales because most of the PS audience will have played it on their PS5s by then. But a new MH game advertised alongside the handheld could push people to switch to that model.

 

[Gambit2483]

I'm not saying it will get individual games, I'm saying it needs new games.

As in, MH Wilds won't have too much of an effect on the handheld's sales because most of the PS audience will have played it on their PS5s by then. But a new MH game advertised alongside the handheld could push people to switch to that model.

Hasn't Sony already shown that they are flat out incapable of supporting 2 separate platforms (i.e. console and handheld)?

Heck even Nintendo had the foresight to drop the idea of supporting two separate platforms and just merged their handheld with their console...which worked, incredibly successfully.

I just can't see another "Vita" working for Sony...

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Somehow you're still not getting that individual games don't need to launch on a PlayStation handheld.

Indeed

It could be successful without a single handheld exclusive game.

To mitigate risk all portable games should also run on PS5/PS6.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

I'm not saying it will get individual games, I'm saying it needs new games.

As in, MH Wilds won't have too much of an effect on the handheld's sales because most of the PS audience will have played it on their PS5s by then. But a new MH game advertised alongside the handheld could push people to switch to that model.

People will still be playing Monster Hunter Wilds in 2 years. People are still playing Monster Hunter World and Rise.

 

[Woopah]

Hasn't Sony already shown that they are flat out incapable of supporting 2 separate platforms (i.e. console and handheld)?

Heck even Nintendo had the foresight to drop the idea of supporting two separate platforms and just merged their handheld with their console...which worked, incredibly successfully.

I just can't see another "Vita" working for Sony...

The idea is that the handheld is a "PS5 S". So no seperate ecosystem to support, it runs the same games as the other PS5 models.

 

[Woopah]

People will still be playing Monster Hunter Wilds in 2 years. People are still playing Monster Hunter World and Rise.

Plenty will still be playing it by then, but I think most of the PS audience who are willing to buy new hardware for MH will have already bought a PS5 by that point.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Plenty will still be playing it by then, but I think most of the PS audience who are willing to buy new hardware for MH will have already bought a PS5 by that point.

Not sure that's the case, especially as new games continue to be made.

 

[Woopah]

Not sure that's the case, especially as new games continue to be made.

That was my point, that there will need to be some big new games coming to that PS5 ecosystem after the handheld (preferably PS exclusive).