PlayStation Boss Sees Limited Potential for Handheld Gaming
- Focus to remain on games, entertainment for the living room
- Sony sees big potential in making games for smartphones
Attendees play video games on the PlayStation 4 at the Tokyo Game Show 2017 in Chiba, Japan, on Sept. 22, 2017.
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Sony Corp.’s gaming chief Andrew House sees limited global potential for handheld gaming in the age of smartphones, saying that the company doesn’t have any concrete plans to take on Nintendo Co.’s Switch.
“The Nintendo device is a hybrid device and that’s a different approach and strategy,” House said in an interview at last week’s Tokyo Game Show. “We have not seen that as being a huge market opportunity,” he said, referring to handheld gaming outside of Japan and Asia, where Sony still sells the Vita portable device.