Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "PLAYSTATION Q EXPLAINED: WHEN IS THE HANDHELD PS5 DEVICE COMING?"

Episode Date: August 7, 2023

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticIn this segment of Notorious Mass Effect, Analytic Dreamz discusses the latest news about the Sony Project Q handheld console. He covers everything from the console's rumored specs to its potential release date. Dreamz also shares his own thoughts on whether or not the Project Q is a good fit for the PlayStation Franchise.If you're a fan of handheld consoles, then you won't want to miss this segment. Dreamz provides a comprehensive overview of the Project Q, and he also offers some interesting insights into its potential impact on the PlayStation Franchise.Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

History lesson for all my PlayStation players out there. What they say, Sony ponies. I don't really like that whole nickname because I would not consider myself a pony. I would consider myself somebody who at the moment currently is attributed to the Sony or team Sony simply because Spider-Man is exclusive to PlayStation. Don't get it messed up. If Spider-Man was exclusive to any other platform, that's where I would be. but currently I am a team PlayStation as

this news just hit the well not just like recently but it just hit the net and a lot of people are interested because if you don't know PlayStation had a interesting handheld device back in the day now what is that you might ask even though I definitely can't hear you what I'm talking through right now but you know you get on saying right you know a little back and forth dialogue The PSVita is what I'm talking about, referring to.

And a lot of people don't know about PSVita. Just know it came out in 2011, I believe, yeah. And it peaked in popularity in 2012, selling around 4 million worldwide. And, yeah, as far as sales. So worldwide sales, it was around 4 million in 2012. And it just went downhill from there. A lot of people was like, why in the world with PlayStation retired to Vita when it was ahead of its time, right? Well, just like NBA Street, just like any

NFL Street game, you can imagine, the reason was simply nobody was buying it. And by nobody, obviously I'm not being literal, but as far as the popular demand compared to other handheld consoles such as the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo 3DS, PS Vita sold around 16 million units worldwide as far as the lifespan while the Nintendo DS has sold over 154 million units and the Nintendo Diaz has sold over 75 million units so you look at that and you let me know why they not making PSVita no more I feel like this is the prime example of consumers not knowing what they want because they ask for something and they don't buy it they ask for the PSVita they go to the store and they rather get a Nintendo DS. They ask for the PSVita. They go to the store and they rather get a Nintendo 3DS.

Obviously when it comes to handhelds, Nintendo has had a strong hold over that certain community, but despite the PSVita's lack of success, it's still a very popular console amongst some gamers. So I would consider it a very niche, if that's even a word when you sell worldwide, you know but anyways a very niche audience when it comes to people who enjoyed the PSVita because obviously compared to Nintendo DS Nintendo 3DS Game Boy Advance game boy it wasn't even coming close as far as sales I mean getting up to 154 worldwide sales in the millions for Nintendo and that being the highest and the lowest being in the 75 million range for the Nintendo 3DS PlayStation Vita sold and And even though it was a lot, respectively, compared to this, a whopping 16 million compared to

75 million, which was Nintendo's lowest sales in its handheld consoles. So PlayStation was never competing in the handheld market when it comes to Nintendo. But why do I bring that up? Because PlayStation is coming back once again with a new handheld called Project Q'd. that has apparently leaked and a lot of people are excited for it the same people who is excited for the PSVita and ended up not buying it instead going with the Nintendo 3DS now and the modern day and age is probably going to be a Nintendo switch instead of Project Q because what I'm my

my thinking is PlayStation does so well with consoles right they've already conquered the they already conquered the console race with Xbox even coming out saying like yeah PlayStation got it But years down the road, because we just bought Activision, we're going to even the eyes. So right now, Sony is just bought far, like, they just ran away with the console race. So they've won it, right? And far as sales, like objective facts. Currently, Sony is trying to get into the handheld console space now that they've Conquerred the console is such a tongue-swister.

But I think they only get into the handheld because of the large gap in the console race. They're like, all right, let's try to go after Nintendo. already kind of beat out for Microsoft for now but that's what's at this point so Sony announced they're working on a new handheld console they didn't provide any details on it however a video leak showcasing what appeared to be a prototype of the console and here it is right now shameless plug analytic dreams video if you want to watch it alongside me or us and here's the video right here as you can see obviously got some type of screen protect over it I think you'll probably have to take that off or whatever

is why it looks so like bubbly or whatever. It's a prototype, so this is how it looks, but it's not exactly the final product, so you know it could end up changing. The tablet could be smaller. You could use your own phone on the tablet. I don't know how it's going to end up working. But as you see, you see the bag.

That's pretty cool. I'm not going to lie. To somebody else, they would be like, what in the world do you have in your hands? But for gamers, on the flight, if you can play like actual console games on this, which, you know, it's a stretch. It's probably not going to happen.

I mean, you see how big the PS5 is. so anyways you probably only be able to play like very rendered down like mobile not not mobile but console games if that's even a thing like mobile versions of games are probably just going to come back with this um in no world i think this will actually be at a run console games but it does look like it'll be able to run mobile games to a point where it'll be pretty entertaining like imagine playing apex legends mobile on this my point exactly so anyways um yeah man that's all i got to I say about the leak. The video, of course, showed the console's controller, had a touchpad to analog sticks. I'm thinking the touchpad may be replaceable. I don't know. Maybe it can extend or

or contract with whatever tablet you have. We'll see if that's the actual tablet that comes with it. Sony has not confirmed the video, of course, because it's a leak. And it's possible that the video is real. Also possible that it could be fake. It could be all made up. But anyways, if it's, If it's real, we just got our first look at the Project Q upcoming console, handheld console for Sony. And it'd be interested to do, it'll be interested to see what Sony does with Project Q because releasing it and the same time span that Nintendo is looking to re-release an upgraded version of the Switch is a competition that I don't know if Sony's ready for. As we've seen over time, their handheld was blown out of the water. and worldwide sales when it came to Nintendo's handhelds.

So as far as a console, a handheld console race, I don't know if they want that smoke with Nintendo, but in other words, for gamers who love playing mobile games, I think this is just a perfect console. Like as far as the controller, they finally just straight up copy the Xbox controller.

I'm so glad they did that because the PlayStation console was just so skinny. I'm like, bro, how am I supposed to, like, my hands was almost touching. I'm like, bro, I can't, like, I need a bigger beast. controller like Xbox controllers are just perfect I'm like just please just copy that and they finally kind of deal with the new controller so for the handheld to be going off of the

newest controller model I think it's just perfect but anyways I'm not going to spend too much time on this just want to bring this to your attention we'll see what happens in the future so anyways click my link to your in my bio let me know in one of my social medias what do you think about this whole PlayStation upcoming project Q handheld device and in the grand scheme of things do you think this will actually end up competing with the latest version of the Nintendo Switch.