In recent years, the handheld market has regained momentum after the Nintendo Switch broke back-to-back sales records. Until a few years ago, Sony also had its own gaming handhelds in its range, most recently the PlayStation Vita. Now there are rumors that Sony wants to revive the handheld business.
Handheld console with AMD APU
Information comes from YouTuber Moore’s Law is dead. in him YouTube video The American reports that Sony is currently working on a portable console, possibly under this name PlayStation Vita 2 can be marketed. According to unconfirmed information, the planned console will be one Special APU from AMD Based on that, the APU has a Radeon graphics unit with 18 compute units that can clock up to 1.8 GHz.
However, we currently do not know which architecture will be used here. Details of the CPU part of the APU are also missing. However, the performance should be enough to be able to play PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 games. But this will require patches for respective games.
Sony PlayStation 5 Slim for 549 euros
The Sony Playstation 5 Slim is a more compact version of the original PS5, with up to 30 percent less housing volume.
Launched on the market with PlayStation 6
This will only make it possible to play current games “on the go”. However, these games were already several years old when they were released. Additionally, the system may once again have its own exclusive title, as was the case with the manufacturer’s previous handhelds.
There is very little information about the official market launch as of now. The YouTuber says that the Vita 2 is currently a “High-Level-Design-Phase“and together”PlayStation 6 family“Will be published in a few years. Since this is a very early rumor, it should be included Appropriate skepticism will be considered. Sony recently released Project Q, a handheld that is purely a streaming device. The handheld can only be used in conjunction with a PlayStation 5, as games stream only to the screen.
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