Late last year, reports from Bloomberg claimedSony was hard at work on a handheldgaming equipment.
There are still no details beyond the promise that it could be capable of playing PlayStation 5 games.
Sony has been much more reserved.
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Some PlayStation diehards are betting on a 2027 release date.
Sony normally works on a 6 to 7-year console cycle, with the PlayStation 5 debuting in 2020.
Still, theres little left to a release date but pure speculation.
Reutersreportedlast year that Sony is sticking with AMD for the PlayStation 6 chip.
It suggests that the console may be compatible in some way with PS5 games.
Sony sticking with AMD for the PS6 (and any handheld version) is practically a given.
Leaker KeplerL2 alsohintedthat the next console would have shader binary compatibility.
That just means games would just work on this new handheld.
Otherwise, the leakerclaimedit will have a 3nm chip running at 15W TDP, or thermal design power.
The Z2 Extreme is meant to power top-end devices like the upcoming Lenovo Legion Go 2.
Until we know more about the PlayStation 6s performance, its hard to speculate about pricing.
A portable PlayStation would need to be more powerful than a $450 Switch 2.
Nintendosupcoming handheldis equivalent in performance to somewhere between a PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro.
The Switch 2 ismaking use of Nvidias DLSSupscaler to help achieve 4K resolution in some games.
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