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Sony's project Q to be less than $300? Microsoft thinks so
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kiphalfton
Member
Wonder who has put out more failed peripherals, Google or Sony
Hero_Select
Member
No shit it'll be under 300. It's just a controller with a screen on it that requires wifi to run.
Man.. what a lazy product
Man.. what a lazy product
Kdad
Member
Switch is a 8 year old phone tech with controllers slapped on the side. What a lazy product.
Kdad
Member
Well...one is a +70 year old electronics company...the other is a last 20 years software company that does a bit in hardware.
ChuckeRearmed
Member
I guess either 249 or 299.
Kdad
Member
Its like a Q should't be needed for Vita owners...at all..
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Azelover
Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
I don't understand what you mean..
DownLikeBCPowder
Member
I'd be surprised if it was even that expensive. It's just a screen and two halves of a dual sense. I would think it needs to be priced much more competitively to survive. I don't have any interest in it because it's not a platform. If it were.. I probably would be.
Kdad
Member
If Sony was still supporting the VITA .... like it god damned should be...what technical barrier would there be to using it like the Q is supposedly going to be used
Ev1L AuRoN
Member
It needs to cost less than US$200 to make any sense, IMHO.
kiphalfton
Member
Peripherals within the same amount of time then. There are you happy.
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Pasta la Vista
Member
I am starting to suspect the same.
Banjo64
cumsessed
The shit wifi card that made PS4 remote play an artefact ridden mess.
In actual costs - yes (actually less than 20$ given it's just an LCD).
To the consumer - most likely no - the controller buying crowds are far too price flexible to NOT exploit them (and everyone does, let's not pretend there are good-guy companies here that don't). I mean even the premium controllers are selling in large numbers and that's literally just a bunch of nicer buttons for 3-4x the price of normal controllers.
Personally I think this would sound reasonable at 129-149 - which coincidentally is more or less the same price that the other accessory of this exact design used to cost 10 years ago.
Now granted - precedent didn't stop companies from overcharging before - but utility, marketing and tech wise, there's nothing here that dictates a higher price unless there's secret hidden reveals yet to come.
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CrustyBritches
Gold Member
That’s my guess
Introducing Backbone One – PlayStation Edition, an officially licensed controller for PlayStation
Inspired by the look of the DualSense wireless controller, play your PlayStation games on iPhone through PS Remote Play with ease.
blog.playstation.com
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Pretty much.
Streaming to phones (or really - any other external computers) is still universally a pretty shit experience. If that's all that this is - it'll be a shit product even if it's sold for 50$.
If it's actually optimized for streaming though - then it'll destroy any of such accessories, even for a relatively high price.
LRKD
Member
I couldn't even imagine paying $100 for that, such a stupid gimmick peripheral. You can already buy a controller for your phone to do the exact same thing for far cheaper. Hot take but, the only way I could ever imagine wanting a device like this is if it was even more gimmicky and was a second screen like the wii u gamepad, the second screen was touch screen and displayed different info from the tv screen.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
It'll probably be 250.
300 if they actually throw any sort of mobile gaming processor in there if they plan on having it play Android games.
300 if they actually throw any sort of mobile gaming processor in there if they plan on having it play Android games.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
Exactly... And even more criminal is that there is shit like Playstation's project Q.
I wouldn't give a piece of gum for that crap.
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Hero_Select
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Yeah I'm getting PSTV vibes from this thing. I regret not snatching up a few of those when we're on clearance for $40.
Why would anyone buy this when a switch lite is $199?
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Member
The old Vita wifi chip doesn't have the necessary bandwidth to stream anything at a playable rate. They would've had to do a model refresh at some point to upgrade that chip.
Tams
Member
The Vita's wifi chip is too old and slow.
BootsLoader
Banned
Wow, Microsoft is in love with Sony!
MarkMe2525
Member
I really feel like this needs to get to the $249 range if Sony really wants to make this a thing. Cheap android tablet SoC with decent screen and controller parts; it's BoM cannot be over $99 (maybe a smidge more).
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IlGialloMondadori
Member
I used to have lag and pixelated image, but weirdly when I’m using it now it looks pretty amazing and has imperceptible lag. Not sure what I’ve changed.
ShadyAcshuns
Member
Yeah, anything higher than $150 and fuck this thing.
Dick Jones
Gold Member
I agree. It didn't need to dominate but just enough to be moderate successful and force Nintendo to improve their handheld earlier than the Switch. The 3ds life extentions were embarrassing but with absolutely no threat, Nintendo could do it.
Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
01011001
Banned
It's already dogshit in your home network... so why would anyone use it over the Internet?
Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
It's already dogshit in your home network... so why would anyone use it over the Internet?
I use Remoteplay already for years that way. My home network is great and sure sometimes some image quality issues but other then that, it works good.
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Bo_Hazem
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Microsoft Reveals Surprising Project Q PlayStation Handheld Price
Microsoft makes a suprising claim about the price of Sony's upcoming handheld, Project Q, during its hearing with the FTC for its Activision deal.gamerant.com
"Microsoft claims that Sony’s upcoming handheld, codenamed Project Q, will cost less than $300. This was revealed in a filing presented to FTC"
Anything over $200 for this thing would be dead in the water. If you can't use it to play games where there is no wifi or it doesn't have an OLED screen, I can see the price being less than that.
I think Sony made this thing for fun. They had plenty of DualSenses sitting around and unused screens from other Sony branch like the old tablets they had and they said:"You know what? There is a brilliant idea!". And Project Q happened.
I sincerely think this is an open survey to see how many would complain and curse Sony and demand a true handheld to assess their next move and R&D for such a thing.
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midnightAI
Member
No shit it'll be under 300. It's just a controller with a screen on it that requires wifi to run.
Man.. what a perfect product for people who want to be able to fully play the PS5 anywhere in their house on a large-ish screen with a proper PS5 controller
