Sony's Next Gen Vita Is Actually Real? & Another Nintendo 2025 Game Revealed Early | News Wave

[@padmoch2207]

so Nintendo gave up on two consoles at the same time (stationary and portable) because the production of games for two systems was becoming more and more difficult, but I see that PS and Xbox want to try - considering how rarely they release games for stationary consoles, I don't predict success here

[@Jimmylikehalo]

Yeah im not sure how this will work out only thing I could see is the microsoft handheld being like a portable pc similar to rog alley so you can play games from multiple different store fronts

[@EnaTenkiyoGamer]

You mean like the ps portal? Nintendo switch fanboy? 😂😂😂

[@kurikuraconkuritas]

I'm sure the handhelds will have similar power to ps4pro. so the idea, I think, is so it is able to play downscaled ps5 games

[@Hahhahahehe]

I think u are misunderstanding about the report it's basically just going to be a ps5 portable and there will be no chance sony will develop separate games for the new portable.

[@cantstandya9749]

@@EnaTenkiyoGamerthe PS Portal streams your PS5 games. This rumored handheld will run games natively. So they would need to either make dedicated games for the handheld system or have it be powerful enough to share games with the PS5. In that case they would need to optimize it for the handheld device which does take time

[@eternalolaughter7570]

Perfect time to bring Donkey Kong 64 and Diddy Kong Racing to the Switch.

[@HungryHungryDude]

Oh man! Diddy Kong Racing is my jam!

[@eternalolaughter7570]

@HungryHungryDude It was far superior than Mario Kart 64.

[@DPTBassment]

DKR was pretty dope. If they could improve the frame rate that would dope but they’ll likely just drop the original

[@Ge0rge_0rwell]

I want Wind Waker HD brought to the switch.....I also think they should do remasters of the original Donkey Kong Country Trilogy. Same games, all new graphics, with the ability to switch between them.

[@DPTBassment]

@@Ge0rge_0rwell I’ve been wanting a remaster of the DKC trilogy since the N64 days. It would nice if they were upscaled, cleaned up etc. widescreen support. Maybe even uncompressed versions of the music or something

[@RennK85]

The Vita was above and beyond for its generation. I would love if they would bring out a next gen version of

[@ActionJacksonForever]

With what games tho?

[@fondedan4078]

And then have Sony drop it soon afterwards

[@EnaTenkiyoGamer]

@@fondedan4078 playstation portal sold well Nintendo switch fanboy 🤣

[@jimmythegamer2231]

They will not

[@CarlosDiaz-fs6cv]

And the vita sold poorly dum dum. Sony gave up on that thing.​@@EnaTenkiyoGamer

[@Kim-py3iv]

I'm still waiting for Metroid Prime 2 and 3 to come to the Switch. And yes, Metroid Prime 4 Beyond.

[@Psmgamer]

Hopefully next year

[@corrinflakes9659]

I mean of course, a lot of people might want to catch up before MP4, like how they prepared Pikmin 1-3 on Switch before Pikmin 4.

[@eduardorickrot4763]

The HD-2D style is amazing. There has to be an adequate rythm of releases, but they really struck gold with this. Fantastic way to bring their old games to a modern audience and give us old fans an excuse to replay them, and even finally get around to some we missed when we were younger (as I did with live a live and many dragon quest games)

[@kdckicksbutt3461]

I just wish they would overhaul the 1st person battle camera. I personally like the combat in FF4 or FF9 better.

[@Matthew_Murray]

If Sony can make a new handheld with a similar footprint to the original Vita, then I’m interested. The issue with a lot of PC handhelds is they are just too bulky for long playtimes and portability isn’t really an option.

[@yoshikinanami7434]

Omg a sane person. I really don’t understand why devices are getting larger and larger these days. Our pockets are not growing?

[@SailBros_204]

I never handled one before, but I could agree. Some are increasing in size, I believe.

[@Jzwiz]

@@yoshikinanami7434cause you need cooling and room for all the chips for modern games, games on the vita and switch for the most part look and run pretty bad with the exception of some very well optimized mario games. Unfortunately heat is a constant issue. Same reason gpus are getting bigger are cpu coolers are getting beefier. Chips get hotter

[@slipperyfish7560]

@@Jzwiz The Switch was the start of big portables though, and has active cooling unlike the PSP or Vita. As transistors get smaller, chips get more efficient and cooler as well. You can look at a handheld like the GPD Win 4 which is one of the smallest PC handhelds yet is more powerful than the steam deck. Switch 2 will likely be more powerful than the Steam deck but be smaller, half of the deck's size is from it's weird controller layout. In 4 years time we will have the technology to make a pretty powerful Vita sized handheld (if moore's law isn't dead, that is)

[@dasaiyantv8483]

The PSP and Vita were made in a unique time in the progression of technology. I don't see something as powerful yet small as them being made again

[@daddykarlmarx6183]

I have a bad feeling that a vita successor could actually be an even bigger failure, the vitas biggest problem was just that sony was focused on the ps4 and developing games for that platform and ended up neglecting the vita, and with games taking more time and money than ever to develop, I fear this problem will only be exasperated

[@QuantumConundrum]

Can't be worse than Concord.

[@mechanicalruby]

The PS5 is neglected. There's like two exclusive first party games, and everything else is coming to PC rapidly. It doesn't matter anymore. It's a different time.

[@cyxceven]

I think Sony is neglecting the PS5 right now. They see where the market is headed with handhelds, and they want to go full ahead with it. They're a top-heavy company with far fewer creatives than their heyday, and they're out of ideas. Plus, for some baffling reason they're ashamed of their amazing back catalog.

[@EliHank]

Don't forget the Vita's expensive proprietary memory cards. Would've sold a lot better if it was compatible with Micro SD cards but Sony got greedy as usual.

[@AlastorShadow0]

Games taking "more time, and money" now more then before is getting WAAAAAAAAAY overblown ESPECIALLY with a lot of Playstation, and Xbox games. Honestly I think Microsoft, and Sony take way longer then they really need with a lot of their games lol.

[@sergiobuontempi2297]

Yeah nah I can’t see Sony or Microsoft taking the portable market away from Nintendo any time soon. Sony didn’t really support or stand by the PS Vita when it was alive and kicking which was a real shame because it was an excellent system but if you don’t promote it or support it then it’s definitely going to fail.

[@JamesG314]

I never got the PSP or the Vita, but a new PS handheld i would get right away. The Nintendo Switch has awoken me to the joy of handheld gaming.

[@Psmgamer]

I got the PSP though never the Vita.

[@brentruiz842]

I never had the vita but I remember it didn’t have very many big title games. The vita was too ahead of its time. The psp was amazing.

[@jonathanaguilar710]

I would be cautious with Sony. They abandon a lot of tech when it's not immediately successful and vita is probably the worst example of this. A handheld would have potential if it could play current gen stuff from their catalogue since I know they wouldn't create exclusive games for it but that would also price it around the ps5 cost or more.

[@Thinkofsomethingnew]

@@Psmgamer that's good to know. Please let me know if you buy a new PS handheld or not.

[@riftshredder5438]

I really hope this means Donkey Kong 64 isn't too far off

[@Chris-iq5pr]

2 more years at least

[@jdee0]

@@Chris-iq5pr rofl

[@Hacker2090]

I would definitely watch a Spawn Wave Game Awards instead of whatever DLC game of the year nonsense Keighley is doing.

[@nayyarrashid4661]

Keighley just wants the spotlight and is a cheap attention seeker... How he got people talking about game awards reeks of non sense and stupidity.

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

Man, the PSP was God-tier back in the day. Small, chunky but robust, it was almost the perfect hand held that could compete with Nintendo. The problem was the button layout was awkward, there was only one thumbstick and it used proprietary media that could only be used with it and no where else. Still, nothing but fond memories with that. So a new hand held from Sony that once again compete with Nintendo but also Valve and Microsoft. Interesting times ahead.

[@xDexter89]

I don't understand how the game awards happen before the year is over (December 12). You'd think it would be early 2025 so every game from 2024 could have been reviewed properly. Just like Arcane S2 is being nominated and voted for even though it wasn't fully out yet.

[@LordAzreth]

End of January seems appropriate

[@kristoff8683]

@xDexter89 because it's a con, it's a glorified advert for up coming games with awards no one cares about sprinkled in. The only award anyone was interested in was game of the year and that's now been ruined by the whole dlc debacle. Geoff Keighley is a self serving idiot and all of his events are the same.

[@Vyse195]

They usually just roll those games into next year. I remember in 2019 they had super Smash Brothers Ultimate in the game of the year.

[@kristoff8683]

@@xDexter89 because the game awards are a con. They are a glorified advert for upcoming releases with awards sprinkled in. The only award anyone cared about was Game of The Year and this has now been ruined by the recent dlc announcement. Geoff Keighley is a self serving tool and all of his events are the same.

[@CarlosDiaz-fs6cv]

​@@kristoff8683yeee, it just a silly popularity contest.

[@FabuBrik]

It doesn't take a genius to know FF6 and Chrono Trigger HD-2D would fly off of shelves. I would also love Nintendo to use that style with Pokemon and Golden Sun remasters.

[@Saintbalor]

SQUENIX WTH DO YOU MEAN!? GIVE US CHRONO TRIGGER ALREADY JEEZ If you must decide on a stopping point, do it after THAT

[@Combo7-y2h]

I would be fine if Chrono Trigger were never remade, as the original is a perfect game. It might be the ONLY perfect game. Of course if it does get remade, I'll buy it and play it in two seconds flat.

[@samvimes9510]

@@Combo7-y2h I just don't understand why they haven't put it on modern consoles. Currently it's only for sale on Steam, Android and iOS. It might look a little weird blown up on a big TV with a PS5 or Xbox, but they haven't even put it on the Switch. It's a REALLY weird omission, especially since they re-released Chrono Cross.

[@maddo-hq9jr]

Teranigma, Lufia, Secret of Evermore, Ilusion of Time. I want them all!

[@CrocvsGator]

​@Combo7-y2h I mean the DS version already was that though. With new content added as well.

[@TaiWanWaf]

@@CrocvsGatorI’m with Combo here, it’s the game I want remade the most but also am fear that a Remake would tarnish it because I think it would ruin the feel… the DS version was an enjoyable time, I wish I had friends to play the multiplayer Nu addition, and the additional content was adding on the story really well…. But I would seconds flat buy a Nu Nu edition Remake if they do it… *manifesting the Chrino Trigger: Nu*

[@aytacdogan9383]

I would definitely buy a new sony handheld, if they actually make it powerful and PORTABLE like the Vita.

[@OtakuUnderground92]

Sad they didn’t include Duelist of the Roses, Forbidden Memories, Falsebound Kingdom, and Capsule Coliseum in the YuGiOh collection. Hope it does well so we get those one day.

[@NeloBladeOfRanni]

Hope it dosent do well since it's only releasing on switch

[@satyamSaha]

I'm just going to assume they're going to make a Forbidden Memories collection with that and Duelist of the Roses some time in the future.

[@OtakuUnderground92]

@@NeloBladeOfRanniOh wow, really? That’s a bummer. Not sure what their thought process was to making it exclusive. At least they should’ve put it on PC.

[@satyamSaha]

@@NeloBladeOfRanni it probably will do well because its on the Switch

[@boscotheman82]

These are just the handheld GB/GBC/GBA games, the PlayStation games don't fit on this collection

[@MedalionDS9]

$500 handheld? I guess I could see it... and yes it will be most likely an all digital system

[@RandomAnimeGamer]

If their new handheld relies on game streaming, it's going to be no better than the PS Portal.

[@jahjoeka]

Wow i actually had two comments of the day in like a 4 month span. Im so lucky lol. Thanks spawnwave 😅

[@ROBOT-FACE]

8:43 ...desktop under your desk... that's quite the double-plus-ungood sentence structure

[@The_Ganondork]

Sony would be dumb to try the 2 consoles thing again. It makes way more sense that what we're hearing about is What will inevitably become a PS6 hybrid handheld and dockable console.

[@Dad_Shoes]

It's good that Nintendo is waiting to release the Donkey Kong Land games weekly and not all at once. I can only take so much Donkey Kong at one time.

[@Oceanandskylinevidss]

We are due for a new Dk game tho. Tropical freeze is 11 years old.😅

[@SAM_0051]

Glad to see you doing well man, the same thing happened to my family last week with the weather change.

[@scherge]

Sony will surely find ways to completely ruin every bit of anticipation I might have for a new handheld from them by putting a 500$ price tag on it or only allowing their headset to properly work with it or some other crazy nonsense.

[@lostchild00]

Square just needs to do Chrono trigger in the Hd-2d style after these DQ games and I'd be happy if they stopped using that style afterwards

[@GMAceM]

I feel like John is always at his happiest when he gets to talk about Metroid or Earthbound.

[@thecasualcanuck4590]

I cant imagine a new sony handheld actually doing well. With their current pricing model, their history of propietary hardware, their history of dropping support for everything that isnt a hoke console, it just doesnt make sense. The competition in the handheld market now is too great. Its no longer just nintendo.

[@Sir_Psych]

Consumers are basically paying thousands of dollars to have a Sony version of a Switch.

[@EnaTenkiyoGamer]

@@thecasualcanuck4590 playstation portal sold well so stay crying over a sony portable ps6 hahaha

[@ScottishDuck17]

I would love it if we could get HD2D games that aren't Square-Enix. Earthbound or Phantasy Star maybe?

[@Pastamancer509]

Yoooooo, Phantasy Star would be sick!

[@KipC-Sway]

​@@Pastamancer509Agreed!

[@BurnInHell7]

The Metroid trilogy for Switch exists, I know people who worked on the project but it was completed years ago I don't know what Nintendo is doing with it.

[@joeherrera8826]

Nobody can compete with nintendo in the handheld market. That said if Sony can make something similar to the Vita without those expensive memory cards and something that has a long battery life if possible then I am all in.

[@pinospin9588]

sony devices nowadays aren't really known for battery life though

[@avocadeous]

@@pinospin9588I wonder if that will be the device’s downfall. I’m pretty sure the entire reason handheld PCs haven’t taken off in the casual market yet is because of the ridiculous prices and the battery life, so if Sony wants to carve out a niche in the Nintendo dominated handheld market, they’ll probably need to address those concerns.

[@ArthropodSpidey]

Damn, are you too young to know about the PSP?

[@OfficialDJTasawennateken]

That is totally not even true You people claiming that Nintendo can't be competed with is ridiculous There's so many better consoles that are handheld out there better than Nintendo switch Nintendo switch is garbage It's nothing but a little handheld riddled with dirt party bloatware games that are garbage They don't really even put triple A games on there no more and actually Nintendo's doing very bad right now because of people realizing how dirty and messed up they are especially after what they've been doing to pocket pair

[@avocadeous]

@@OfficialDJTasawennateken We're talking about raw system sales. Of course Nintendo can be competed with when it comes to hardware/software quality, nobody is arguing against that. Competing with Nintendo's sales figures is what is difficult, because Nintendo has an absolute chokehold on the portable gaming market rn. The lowest selling Nintendo handheld gaming console is the 3DS with 75 million, which still makes it the 12th best selling console of all time. To put that into perspective, that is only 5 million units behind Sony's BEST selling handheld. Sony needs to seriously get their act together if they want to compete with Nintendo's portable gaming formula, because Nintendo has hit the big time by making affordable hardware with quality software. (p.s, The casual market, aka the market that isn't chronically online and is nintendo's main demographic, does not care about the palworld drama. Trust me the impact of the people who actually care about that is not very big relative to the sheer amount of people that either A. Don't know, or B. Don't care)

[@littlekaiju3882]

The following week will be Donkey Kong 64.

[@ParadoxalDream]

They can keep that one lol

[@krazycharlie]

I'd be happier if it is Diddy Kong Racing. I doubt it but one can always dream.

[@TheIronTiger44]

I’m only interested in a new Sony Handheld if it plays PSP and PSVita games.

[@markhammond2859]

You can literally just use a psp or vita lol

[@Lightspeeds]

I want this new one to allow me to bring over everything I've already bought from the eshops over for free.

[@pyroplayer88]

I just want Yu-Gi-Oh duelist of the roses 😢

[@evermillcreek]

Prime 4 trailer at the game awards would be a great way to promote it, with shadow drops of 2 and 3 individually at the same time. Release of 4 could even be February.

[@Deseko]

The wait is killing me, I gave up and started playing Prime 2 on my Gamecube last week 😆

[@THE-CROWZ06]

About Metroid Prime series 👍. I want Metroid : Other M Remake 🤘😸🎸

[@Legendalvin]

Expensive handhelds won't sell well , so as games on it. $300 is the maximum parents are comfortable to spend for their kids. You say for adults ? No, that's a tiny market , steam deck sold 3 millions after all these years, while PS Vita sold 5x times still a failure.

[@HexerDexter]

The PS5 VITA may be a failure, but given enough the Playstation Portal will be a bigger failure.

[@DanielMonteiro87]

FF6 deserves a FF7REMAKE style of remake (but all in one game and no plot changes at all).

[@Mike__P]

Square needs to do 3 things: release a physical edition of Actraiser: Renaissance (poster and all), and do HD2D remakes of E.V.O. Search for Eden and Soul Blazer.

[@rtyuik7]

Metroid Prime 3 DID rely quite a bit on the Wiimote and its Motion Controls...but the Switch still has a couple more buttons and an extra stick, so theyll probly do something similar to Zelda:SkywardSword and adapt most of those controls back to a 'traditional' input... actions like Removing Power Cells could be done by rotating the right thumbstick and clicking it, instead of turning the Wiimote and pulling, for example...

[@MasonVanderpool]

Sony could literally make a handheld with the steam deck CPU that can directly play PS4 games. I’d buy one.

[@Pandarah]

Surely they're not thinking of going up against Nintendo in the handheld market. If that's their strategy, they've lost already. Releasing Astro Bot, while fantastic, does not mean you're suddenly coming for Nintendo, get real. Nintendo has owned the handheld market for decades and provides a specialized library of games, and the Steam Deck cleverly took the powerhouse-road to secure a corner of that market which Nintendo didn't focus on. Sony's already struggling to get enough titles out to the PS5. They left the handheld business and I think they might find it to be a struggle to get back in. Some solutions and worries I have below. A great value point would be to have an NSO style library of their old PSP and Vita games. It's such a no-brainer that if they don't do it it deserves to fail imo. And this one's a bit crazy, but imagine an update for the PS4 so you could stream those games to the handheld. The reason why is that I'm just not seeing the PS5 carrying this thing by itself atm, and I'm already worried for the PS6, that thing feels like it shouldn't even release before 2030. Who knows, maybe it will be a different story by the time this handheld comes out. Some worries I have. Will Sony have enough exclusives not playable anywhere else to lure people in and away from their Steam Deck/Switch 2? And if people are finishing their games even faster because of this, will they grow frustrated with there not being enough games to keep the console going? I do get why they want it though. Since Nintendo launched the Switch, everyone's looking to get a piece of that pie. Nintendo went hybrid so that they could have a steady stream of quality releases, both big and small, for one console instead of spreading themselves too thin. Streaming games from PS5, you'll need a stable connection. Maybe not a problem at home, but your PS5 is already there so what's the point? Are they making a Wii U? Because we all know how that turned out. On the road you'll probably run into connection issues and using mobile data for it is expensive. Downloading the games on there would be an answer, but will that work with games released so far or do developers have to put extra time and money in to adjust their games for it to work? Or is the system truly as powerful as a PS5, in which case I'm seeing battery life and heating issues, resulting in a potentially bulky heavy system. Yes, there are solutions to all of these problems, but with each one solved, it results in a higher price tag on the end product. Are people willing to pay it on top of their PS5? Especially if they're basically getting the same library, or even worse, when it's just a streaming device? Buying a Switch for instance gives you access to a slew of games not found anywhere else. Or will people buy this instead of a PS5, leading to less sales of their home console? Making dedicated games for the handheld is an option that ties back into them spreading themselves too thin, and they're struggling with releasing enough games as it is already. I don't know man. I'm not saying they can't do it, but I have a feeling that they'll have to bring their very best to pull it off.

[@Nytrusdeathcyde]

im looking forward towards Metroid prime 4 beyond

[@YuitoScarlet]

Man thats actually a good point from Square Enix. Its a genuine concern to maintain good quality games.

[@Ice_2192]

As long as the system does not go with the way of the vita where the games are either JRPG's no one has ever heard of or indie games (in only referring to the ones that only 5 people play). The vita had potential but there were barely any games for it.

[@Faelldellano]

Jesus! Why don’t they bring Forbidden Memories, Duelist of the Rose and Capsule Monster Coliseum!? Konami is so lame and lazy!

[@scalliano]

Where's Special Stage Route 11, Kaz? WHERE IS IT?

[@Lock2002ful]

Nintendo needs to bring Donkey Konga back. :D

[@forsaken6448]

Nobody really talks about this game but I really want a remaster of Secret of Evermore.

[@Oceanandskylinevidss]

Ouch, the only and last game Square of America ever made. Japan gave us only one chance.

[@Aelrandir]

HD2D is great for old remakes, but it would be cool to see new stuff too. Make an entirely new mainline DQ style game with it, not replacing the modern 3D, but being a sort of "secondary mainline series" of games on its own. Same thing for FF, make a new original FF game in HD2D that carries a more classic FF1-6 gameplay and tone to it. I think there's good potential there as well.

[@KipC-Sway]

2:40 Yu-Gi-Oh Dark Duel Stories!?!? That's going to be fun to revisit

[@joegardner851]

I’m buying that day one. I recently have gotten in card games. I used to play Yugioh when I was a kid and now I can revisit the older games. I don’t think I will play the newer version, i watch some people play and I’m confused 😂

[@KipC-Sway]

@joegardner851 @joegardner851 yoo I agree. I used to play Yu-Gi-Oh as a kid as well but when I try looking at modern Yu-Gi-Oh I get overwhelmed and confused 😅 Dark Duel Stories was a really fun one on the Game Boy Color.

[@joegardner851]

@ I’m sure it’s much easier to understand than I think it is. But I rather ease into it and remember the basic and the cards. I’ll play through this and try out the new stuff.

[@samuelgonzales4814]

Ok ok ill admit beyond metroid prome 2&3 remastered or not, please please Nintendo drop on us donkey kong '94 please for the ones of us who have that game but bad battery and no wishes to open up and mod a genuine and great game, that and the two other prime games do not deserve to be sent to the dust shelf

[@aytacdogan9383]

I love the HD 2D look, I'd have no problem with it

[@yookalaylee2289]

I know there has always been a lot of chatter about how “game streaming is the future”. The recent update to the Portal with the cloud beta is so good that it’s foreseeable that a native handheld is now redundant. The portal IS how you play full featured current gen games on the go.

[@weebsquit347]

I think this might sound obvious, but Sony releasing Lego Horizons on Switch could've been them testing out the handheld waters and getting familiar again by making a dedicated handheld version, and to see how much a game of theirs sells on a popular portable system like the Switch as an estimate.

[@baked7423]

Well it was more Lego who wanted it on the system so it was just trying to reach a wider audience

[@syn3232]

If there’s no Metroid Prime 2 and 3, I will not go for the “switch 2” and or Metroid Prime 4. They will lose a customer over here.

[@anthonyd4309]

DLC needs to be its own category for your Game Awards, Jon.

[@Aureo-nt1gy]

This is the future. Ideally, I’d like for Sony to eventually get to a point where they just make one console powerful enough to be a home - handheld hybrid. And have the PS store available everywhere; on said console, PC, Mobile, Cloud, TV, etc. Have an ecosystem available to all and create /innovate with your first party ip and keep it exclusive to said ecosystem to draw ppl in it. Live service type games can be on other ecosystems.

[@CodenameDuchess1984]

I think at least 1 HD2D release but no more than 3 a year, but im not a marketing person. I just think it keeps the series in mind while also giving the market enough time to consume the content without adding to a backlog

[@sapap23foo96]

I STILL PLAY MY PS VITA it is amazing. The home-brew community is alive too! Mine isn’t tapped into like that, but I literally have the 1000 series (1st model) and aside from your typical OLED screens “dark spots”, it runs like a beauty!💪🏽Sony needs to come back with something new again for sure.

[@ParadoxalDream]

14:42 Again Jon, the name of the game is METROID PRIME 4: BEYOND.

[@nintendians]

metroid prime 1-3 making of book announced - sounds good. poll - it's going to be x2 or x3 the price of a "switch" 2.

[@deltamaxxhomevideo]

I don’t think a Sony PS handheld comes in under $600. Sony see themselves as a premium brand like Apple. Whether that self perception is warranted is debatable.

[@PaulDoyle-jq2ck]

nope microsoft does stop hating

[@krazycharlie]

What if Sony's next alleged handheld is actually the PS6? Both Microsoft and Sony have watched Nintendo, Valve and other companies success with the Switch and other handheld devices long enough to be envious and want a big chunk of that pie. But at the same time, they can't simply leave the desktop console market behind just like that, so it makes sense they also go the hybrid console route. In any case, $300 is my top for any handheld. More than that and I'd be better off getting a Steam Deck.

[@G360LIVE]

I agree. The PS6 needs to be a handheld if Sony wants to compete with Nintendo in Japan. What Sony could do to differentiate is make a dock with a more powerful GPU, so playing the PS6 docked on a TV gives you more power. Essentially, keep selling consoles in parts. The handheld would be the lower-priced entry point, probably $400. A dock with a superior GPU could be $300. And of course, Sony could still sell the PS5 disc drive and just have it attach to the dock. Then, Sony can sell a $700 console without as many complaints. lol

[@Kapono5150]

Seems like consoles are turning into handhelds out here

[@TheTyisawesome]

I think so too, gotta compete with the PC handheld. I have one and they are game changers for sure

[@dr_diddy]

@@TheTyisawesome I'm surprised how much I actually game on the deck after I brought it and it also made me play games I wouldn't have brought before. Having Spider-Man on PC and Miles Morales on Deck was pretty dope.

[@JaktheGuitarGod]

I’ve barely played any 2-D remake at all but everything I’ve seen looks so amazing and I played a little bit and it’s amazing. It’s like bringing back those old bit games to life again so I’m all for it.

[@joshuagrandison7219]

All I need in life is HD-2D Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VI.

[@L8NiteCoffeeSips]

It would be ideal now that the handheld market has made huge comeback

[@cosmicspidermanx9569]

Gran turismo 7 offline would be great

[@shane3x]

John I can’t believe you got Jim Ryan to host this episode 😂

[@NickBGamble]

Chrono Trigger 2DHD. While you’re at it, remake Secret of Evermore too.

[@legendofphil]

So far the HD-2D experience has been balanced, there have been 4 original games and 2 remakes. Whilst I think we have a long list of games we would like to see remade that way it's not something SE can just flick a switch and out pops Chrono Trigger HD-2D, for example, it takes a lot of time and effort. Not flooding the market that way is sensible, not only will it help to keep up quality but also not kill that market. Continuing a balance of new and remade games is the way to go forward.

[@Big_maya-k5z]

I know it probably won't happen but it would be amazing if Nintendo and game freak we made the first three Pokemon games in HD 2D. Should they get around to making Gen 5 they should definitely do that approach because that was the last Pokemon game to have sprites and I believe the community will be very happy with it.

[@hgibbons69]

You mean HD remaster of 16bit?

[@ponejito24]

We already have 2 remakes, on GBA and in switch.

[@RobMost]

That Yugioh collection looks insanely good! I'm very excited for it.

[@sloapmonkey123]

How is everyone so infavor of handheld consoles, but against the xbox series s? Handhelds will cause the problem people criticize the series s for.

[@XxZannexX]

Portability convince is worth the sacrifice. Not having enough RAM in the S is a poor choice by Microsoft.

[@mikeuk666]

Is series s handheld or portable?.....

[@davidjohnston6547]

The HD2D over saturation makes sense, anyone remember about 20 years ago when we had game after game of Star Wars and people got tired of them. You have to pace the games coming out too few people get bored, too many and people get burned out with all the releases. Some games would definitely benefit from the HD2D art style like some FF games, and other 8 and 16-bit titles, some like Lufia 1 & 2 would look good in the art style used in The Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening and The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom since the characters in Lufia already have that Chibi/Funko pop look to them.

[@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective]

God damn I think a lot of YGO fans are going to be disappointed with the Early Days collection. Most of them wanted games like Forbidden Memories, Dungeon Dice Monsters and the like. Unfortunately it seems most of this collection with exception to Reshef and the Sacred Cards are the early world championship games. Basically this is to a Yu-Gi-Oh! fan what a Fifa Collection would be a to a Fifa fan getting Fifa 2000-2005 in one set.

[@satyamSaha]

Dungeon Dice Monsters is confirmed for the collection and I honestly feel like Konami is going to do a Forbidden Memories collection which includes that and Duelist of the Roses later on.

[@jasonthemanallen]

I agree with a lot of the comments I'm seeing. Chrono Trigger needs the HD-2D treatment! They should do what they did with Dragon Quest 11 where you can switch from 3d to 2d.....but this if you didn't like how certain areas looked with the new HD-2D look, just switch styles to the original.

[@V4ND41]

How do you make a Yu-Gi-Oh collection and not include Forbidden Memories shm

[@jonforget]

I'd love to see hd 2d remakes for Dragon Quest 4 - 6. Just beat dragon quest 3 and am very excited for 1 & 2

[@gioasencio4946]

if anyone lives close to the southern border, in Mexico there's a store called "Soriana" that's selling the PS5 Slim (2 games) for 5k pesos, which is $246.01USD. Mexico does prices with the tax included, so it's the final price.

[@Turbo_Waitress]

Sony needs to get a better game lineup - particularly better console exclusives - if they really want that hardware to be profitable for them. This isn’t the late 90s/early 00s. It’s getting harder to justify buying a 500 dollar system for a handful of games. That’s one area where Nintendo has the other two beat by a mile. Say what you want about the processing power and graphics, but the Switch has a diverse library of games. I would love to see Sony keep stepping things up in the exclusives/first party department.

[@levikonn]

I do find it a bit weird that Nintendo would release two Metroid prime games within one calendar year, so if prime two does come out let’s say February, I feel like prime four could be a 2026 game.

[@Aries73]

January Madness, perhaps? The title may need work but a GotY tournament sounds interesting.

[@silversonic1]

Game consoles don't need to be generational anymore. They're essentially PCs with special operating systems.

[@Mordax227]

It's not that special for the Xbox. That console just runs a version of Windows that has a console overlay. Like, right now the Xbox is running OS build version 26100.2910 and Win 11 is 26100.2454.

[@silversonic1]

@Mordax227 Good point. Of course, there are various things removed from the console OS that you would normally have in typical Windows installs. This is both to save on storage and on boot time. Less OS overhead means more of the resources can be put into games. And these days, the OS is almost always running in the background. Super Smash Bros for 3DS is one of those rare situations where it required the 3DS to reboot when exiting the game because the game would use system resources just to work properly. This wasn't the issue on "new" 3DS systems because they had more power under the hood.

[@wardraven8755]

⁠@@Mordax227it’s not a version of windows it is windows 11

[@lbsiuk]

@@silversonic1 The 3DS has 128MB of RAM and typically it is being used in a 64/64mb mode where half is dedicated to the game and the other to the OS. Smash 3DS uses a special 96/32 mode with different allocations so the game gets more but the OS gets less - hence why the 3DS has to load a lot of the OS into RAM from storage when you do anything in the pause menu, hence the additional load times. It can still hold the basic pause menu though in 32mb.

[@silversonic1]

@@lbsiuk Thanks for the extra info.

[@auroraboracat26]

I for one welcome competition in the handheld market. It can only be a good thing for consumers.

[@UndeadCollector]

Saying the overuse of HD2D may getting boring is really a joke if you compare it with "let us make the 100th+ Game that trys to look realistic".

[@Onespeed94]

One way I think they could evolve the 2D-HD would have a feature that allows you to swap the graphic settings between the modern & original. Similar to Halo MCC

[@ROBOT-FACE]

My dream HD-2D game would be either Bahamut Lagoon or Illusion of Gaia

[@Suhadisgood]

I only heard it’s a handheld not a vita Sony changes the name they don’t call them the same name it was called PSP before don’t think it’s going to be a handheld you can insert cartridges in those days are over

[@rhindlethered]

Ask Nintendo about that.

[@mikekanner2156]

@@rhindletheredwhat’s Nintendo have to do with PlayStation kiddo this is Sony PlayStation how old are you 8

[@MacUser2-il2cx]

The Yu-Gi-Oh collection is all the handheld games from Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance. Yu-Gi-Oh Forbidden Memories from the PS-One is not listed in the collection so it's all the handheld ones.

[@ShinobiShaw]

I have a PS5 that I play every night on my couch for two maybe 3 hours and I have a switch that I play in my bed while I fall asleep every night, both have different uses and neither can replace the other, next gen should be HYBRIDS more than traditional consoles

[@zerozoidHD]

Now that we have that Yu-Gi-Oh collection that went up to world championship 2005 I can't wait for them to release another one that includes the rest of the games. For reference: those "World championship" tittles went up to 2011, so there's at least 4 to 5 Yu-Gi-Oh games from the Nintendo DS that are left over. 5D's people unite! Synchro Summon!!! Synchro Shoukan!!!

[@davidspraguedragonman6479]

Dude, getting all those Yu-Gi-Oh! games rerelease, ESPECIALLY Dark Duel Stories for me is AWESOME! Dark Duel Stories has one of the top graphics of any Game Boy Color game, and I’ve wanted to play it for YEARS because of this! I hope that Square Enix at least considers remaking Chrono Trigger, while possibly including the anime cutscenes and DS and Satellaview extras, in HD-2D.

[@seefore5409]

When you do the Spawn Bracket (tm) are you going to include Shadow of the Erdtree? Trollol

[@AristoCIV]

It would actually sooooo funny if Sony released this device and doesn't take into account what kind of people actually buy handheld consoles.

[@SotNist]

Yeah, I would absolutely buy an HD-2D take on Final Fantasy 6. I've rebought that game on so many platforms over the decades and the pixel remaster was great... but it would be nice to see it revitalized in a way that still feels authentic, maybe make the battle system a bit more involved and challenging, embellish the scenarios, towwns and dungeons some more in a cool way. Without overdoing it in some AAA remake trilogy that takes 30 years to finish. Something like that giant 3D mural they made out of Amano's FF6 art would be glorious, but it's never going to happen.

[@thelevelrider6563]

Watching from a steam deck After using the Deck and seeing the size, he vita has A TON of room to grow Physically. At first glance the Deck seemed to be too cumbersome too awkward to be comfortable but in time it proved to be quite nice. if the Vita , whose design is near perfect was scaled up to steam deck size, all that extraroom they could surely build something great

[@kristoff8683]

Another Sony device to be abandoned... they don't have a great track record with these extra systems, the Vita and PSVR 2 are examples of this

[@the_clawing_chaos]

Agree. Sony lost me as a customer after the Vita. It was such a good platform, wasted by a lack of support.

[@EnaTenkiyoGamer]

@kristoff8683 playstation portal sold well so stay crying Nintendo switch fanboy 🤣

[@EnaTenkiyoGamer]

@the_clawing_chaos more like the fans fault for not buying it in 2011. Not sony's lol

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

Sony has come quite the masters of abandoned things 🤣🤣🤣

[@kainairsoft2331]

It's hit or miss. If they see sales, they provide support , if they see a flop, they are jumping ship way too quick. The only exception was the PS3, because the box under the TV is their bread and butter. In any case, I'm on board with a successor to the Vita, playing down scaled ps5 -6 games on the go. I don't want a Switch / Steamdeck form factor, but unfortunately, it is the norm.