{"id":181267,"date":"2019-12-05T00:26:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T16:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1812643\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T00:26:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T16:26:02","slug":"dont-expect-any-more-playstation-handhelds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/05\/dont-expect-any-more-playstation-handhelds\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Expect Any More PlayStation Handhelds"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/PlayStation-Vita-650x366.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>As far as home video game consoles go, Sony\u2019s track record is pretty stellar. In the 25 years the PlayStation has been around, one of those consoles (the PlayStation 2) is the best-selling video game box period at over 150 million units. Two more (the original PlayStation and PlayStation 4) crossed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/playstation-4-becomes-fastest-console-to-sell-100-million-1798027\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">100 million<\/a>\u00a0threshold. And even the beleaguered PlayStation 3 wound up pretty popular in the end.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to Sony handhelds though things get a lot more dicey. In a vacuum the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/best-psp-games-1756634\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">PlayStation Portable<\/a>\u00a0did quite respectably. But it was dwarfed by its rival the Nintendo DS. Meanwhile, the PlayStation Vita did exponentially worse, hovering around Wii U hardware numbers but without any of the beloved games. And in case the protracted death of that system wasn\u2019t a big enough clue, Sony officially has no more interest in handheld devices.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/feature\/2019\/12\/03\/the-first-25-years\"  rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a>\u00a0with Game Informer about the PlayStation\u2019s 25th anniversary, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan poured cold water on the various low-key rumors that Sony is in fact readying a third portable PlayStation alongside the PlayStation 5. Nope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlayStation Vita was brilliant in many ways, and the actual gaming experience was great,\u201d Ryan said, \u201cBut clearly it\u2019s a business that we\u2019re no longer in now.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TQh19tASkwU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Ryan and other Sony executives cited mobile gaming as the chief reason for their exit from the handheld space. But personally I don\u2019t totally buy this. Mobile gaming eroded into the market for sure. Even Nintendo got hit. The 3DS didn\u2019t do as well as the DS and they had to collapse handhelds and consoles into one with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-nintendo-switch-1685280\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Nintendo Switch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Vita had its own self-inflicted problems. High price. Proprietary memory cards. Underutilized hardware features. And most damning of all practically no major first-party games from Sony to take advantage of the impressive specs. Portable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-kills-the-vita-as-indie-handheld-of-choice-1690561\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">indie games<\/a>\u00a0are cool, but again as the Switch has shown, you need both.<\/p>\n<p>So pour one out for portable PlayStations. And learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/playstation-5-vs-xbox-project-scarlett-everything-we-know-about-next-gen-consoles-1792542\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">PlayStation 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/PlayStation-Vita-650x366.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"><\/figure>\n<p>As far as home video game consoles go, Sony&rsquo;s track record is pretty stellar. In the 25 years the PlayStation has been around, one of those consoles (the PlayStation 2) is the best-selling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/dont-expect-any-more-playstation-handhelds-1812643\/\">Don&rsquo;t Expect Any More PlayStation Handhelds<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/\">Geek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/05\/dont-expect-any-more-playstation-handhelds\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2054,2,2367,2369,3166,16,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,478,481,482,480,479,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,477],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-L9F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181268,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181267\/revisions\/181268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}