The successor to Sony Interactive Entertainment’s PS Vita, dubbed PS Vita 2, is currently in development, based on the latest rumor.
YouTuber Moore’s Law Is Dead has claimed that he’s heard about the PS Vita 2 being worked on by AMD. He mentioned that money has exchanged hands, and that Sony is paying AMD for active development of the hardware. Though, he added that it is currently only in high level design, meaning that Sony Interactive Entertainment has not decided what it will look like or if it is going to be fully greenlit.
According to the YouTuber, the gaming handheld is least 2 years away from release, and they could not say with certainty whether it would see the light of day. He mentioned that he spoke with some developers, and what he was told is that they do believe that it’s plausible that the PS Vita 2 could utilize 18 compute units. This is the same number of compute units in the PS4’s GPU, and the aim is to have native backwards compatibility with all digital PS4 titles.
As for PS5 games, the YouTuber mentioned that the PS Vita 2 will likely be a cut down version of the PS5 with a newer architecture than that of the PS4, allowing certain games to run natively on the device via an optimization update/patch. He said that everyone he spoke to believes that the only way a new handheld PlayStation portable would work is if it runs AMD hardware and is able to run all digital PS4 and some PS5 titles, without the need to have games developed specifically for the device.
As always, we urge our readers to take such rumors and speculation with a grain of salt until there is confirmation via official channels. That said, a handheld device that runs the PS4’s entire catalog of games as well as watered down versions of PS5 titles does sound compelling.
