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This article comes from the official account of Wechat: ID:paperji, author: Rain

Finally, everyone is making handheld phones.

Except for Sonny.

The former Nintendo Switch has become the best-performing handset of this generation, and then Steam Deck has piled up enough hardware for you to play large-scale games such as the Alden Ring. Even Microsoft has to use cloud games to achieve full-screen games.

Only Sony is still stuck in the shadow of "the handset is dead" and does not dare to test it on the handset.

After all, the rise and fall of PSP and PSV brought them a huge PTSD. The former sells more than 80 million units, while the latter has less than 20 million units.

Although, I also achieved the full success of Gravity Girl with the back touch of PSV at that time.

Although it is a handheld, Sonny allows PSV to play Western-style games such as "mysterious Sea", "killing mercenaries", "call of Duty Black Action" and so on.

But at that time, Europeans and Americans were also obsessed with playing 3A masterpieces at home, not interested in the shrinking picture of the handset, plus some outsourcing works that destroyed IP's reputation. Sales of PSV in Europe and the United States are very low.

However, you can find many excellent Japanese works on PSV.

No matter "Flash track 1, 2" or "Pill Theory broken Series" were exclusive at that time, and "Goddess anecdote 4 Gold Edition" was also a tiresome play at that time. Until P4G announced the migration to Switch.

Even those "gentleman-only games" experiences are unique to PSV.

In the days when other people eat PSV ash, real gentlemen bear the weight of their breasts.

However, as a competitor on the same stage. 3DS has captured everyone's heart in the field of handset. Even today, 3DS will cause second-hand prices to rise because of the large amount of Amway in Little Red Books. PSV can only watch from the sidelines.

PSV was discontinued on March 1, 2019. After the online mall closed in 2021, a former Sony employee revealed that the PSV actually planned to stop production in 2016. Even earlier.

Microsoft also conducted a trade-in recycling campaign in 2017, including a large number of game machines.

The recycling price of PSV feels like e-waste. You might as well keep it at home to eat ash, or give it to others second-hand.

However, since the beginning of the PS5 generation, rumors have been circulating that Sony is developing a new handset.

The rumor began when a post on Reddit said: "an Asustek employee knew that Sony was secretly developing a new handset."

The following responses are also about the new PS handset, basically ignoring that this is actually a revelation about the new Asustek handset.

After that, another senior editor in the industry issued an exclusive on insider gaming, officially spreading the rumors of Sony's new handset. He says the new model will be launched before the PS5 Pro.

The new handset, codenamed "Q Lite", has an 8-inch 1080p screen and all the features of the PS5 handle: adaptive trigger, speaker, headphone Jack, etc.

According to revelations, Sony's new handset needs to be connected to the home PS5 to play, and it needs to be connected to the Internet.

So, the concept map looks like this.

Isn't that what it is. There's a handle on the phone? That's right, because this is originally a screenshot of the promotional video of PS5's "remote Games".

They take a function that has been available since the PS3 era in 2006, and put a pair of handles on it and call it a new handset?

This feels like an insult to the handset player.

In fact, PSV was also a machine with its own streaming function at that time, and many people would use it to connect to PS3 or PS4 at home to play remotely. I only remotely in order to push the progress of archiving on the host computer at any time.

Remote networking requirements are sometimes not stable, so if you play a fighting game or a shooter game, that delay may cause you to collapse to the point of falling off the machine.

This is why competitive games such as fighting and shooting need to be played offline.

It's like a rice ball that has been set up at a game stall for 20 years.

No matter how troublesome it is, it is necessary to move out the Mega Drive mainframe, TV, power supply and other equipment, and connect them with a cable handle so that everyone can sit together to compete for the "Youyou Baishu strong Unification War", all for the purpose of offline gaming atmosphere.

People will pass by, they may be waiting for a bus or someone, and people who want to come and have a look may join in.

But what if in this lively atmosphere, the game device of "rice ball" is a streaming handset that needs to be connected all the way?

That may be a real competition.

Not everyone can go out with their handset at any time, and most people don't necessarily know much about game consoles, and this random game stall is a "coincidence" in their lives. Come and play if you want, even if you have a look, it's fun. I can teach you even if you can't play.

Game stalls prove that people are sometimes willing to play video games in outdoor scenes such as streets, square parks, bazaars and temple fairs. And the portable handset is the most perfect choice.

But nowadays, we have more and more requirements for "screen" and more and more hardware requirements.

Manufacturers will naturally push through the old and bring forth the new according to these needs.

But they completely forgot one thing, this thing is too heavy.

If the fact that Little Red Book turned 3DS "red" is an event of the spread of an Internet virus, it is better to say that people begin to miss portable game consoles.

For some veteran players, mobile phones and tablets can not replace the classic game handheld in their minds.

Sony PSP is something I longed for but couldn't get when I was a child. I watched my older brothers play Ares and watch American TV dramas on it. Only when they were tired could I come forward and play for a while.

Perhaps it is because we have left our obsession in the past that we have to release it now.

PSV chose a compromise between mobile games and Nintendo's "hybrid mode": to maintain high performance while maintaining playability. Its birth is a "difficult birth".

Throughout his stumbling life, PSV has been living in the shadow of 3DS. After Zelda and Bao Ke Meng absorbed the first loyal players, excellent third parties such as "Strange Hunt 3G" and "Fire pattern" were well received, and "moving Sen" and "Ren Tmall / Dog" became out-of-circle works.

Looking at the playable 3DS, does PSV also imagine whether he can have a different look?

But no matter how powerful the 3DS is, as soon as mobile games appear, the handset competition will break itself.

"Fruit Ninja", "plants vs. Zombies" and "Angry Birds" three mountains put all the handsets under their bodies, and the golden age of portable handsets is over.

But the handset did not "die" as a result. Online shopping malls can be closed and machines can be shut down. And Nintendo Switch still takes the lead.

But Sony has not dared to invest a penny more in the handset.

What's more, Sony actually knows what a good handset should look like.

PSV back touch is the only one in the whole handset field, the color of OLED screen is delicate and accurate, streaming home PS3, PS4 is also their function since 2006, this kind of bold innovation was once the most attractive place of Sony.

(PSV came up with the idea earlier than anyone else and is now on Nintendo Switch.) the essence of the handset is the "personal items" that can accompany the player every day. As time goes on, your palm will gradually have all kinds of traces of you.

Your handheld handle will drift, the battery will age, and the screen will malfunction, but these can be replaced.

The handset is an easy-to-understand machine, and every part and operating system can be DIY. From the hardware of the handset to the game of the handset, every link can be full of creativity and imagination.

But a streaming "handle" is not a handset.

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