Sony’s developing a handheld console to compete with Nintendo

It’s been a tumultuous year for Sony: its gaming division had one of the worst video game releases ever, with high-budget shooter “Concord” selling fewer than 25,000 copies; the Spidey-adjacent Marvel movie “Madame Web,” and other titles from its film division,bombed at the box office; and it oversaw multiple rounds of layoffs… all pointing to the entertainment giant needing a big commercial win in 2025.

Now, according to reporting from Bloomberg, it seems that Sony plans to get back in the game by making a handheld console to rival Nintendo’s smash-hit mobile device, the Switch. While Sony has forayed into the handheld-gaming space before with the PlayStation Portal, released last year, as well as the now discontinued PS Vita (2012) and PlayStation Portable (2005), what will supposedly separate the new device from its predecessors is allowing PS5 games to be played without an active Wi-Fi connection.

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