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Background and Key Points

Yoshiyuki Tomino created the “Universal Century” Gundam lineage in three stages: the original Mobile Suit Gundam (1979, protagonist Amuro Ray, rival Char Aznable), Zeta Gundam (1985, protagonist Kamille Bidan), and Zeta Zeta (ZZ) Gundam (1986, protagonist Judau Ashta). These three works, plus the theatrical trilogy and Char’s Counterattack (1988), form the backbone of a franchise now in its fifth decade. ZZ has long occupied an awkward position in that lineage: it opened with a comedic, juvenile tone before darkening considerably, and Tomino himself reportedly wanted a “seven-part saga” of compilation films that quietly excluded ZZ altogether — a real production history, not fan speculation. Part of ZZ’s shakiness also traces to Tomino delegating episodes under a pen name during a period of overwork, which is why some fans argue it isn’t “really” his work.

The thread’s actual fault line isn’t whether Judau is strong — it’s whether the three-way split of labor (Amuro’s combat skill, Kamille’s raw Newtype power, Judau’s mental stability) is a fair or even coherent way to compare protagonists built fourteen years apart under different creative pressures, with posters invoking a Maradona-vs-Messi framing to reject the exercise entirely.

What outsiders likely miss is that this isn’t really about combat rankings at all — it’s a proxy fight over ZZ’s legitimacy within the UC canon. Tomino is notorious for revising his own stated opinions about his shows years later, so a single quote elevating Judau reads to longtime fans less as settled lore and more as the latest flip in a decades-long pattern, which is exactly why the thread immediately questioned his credibility rather than taking the ranking at face value.

Background and Key Points

Sony has never announced a PS6, let alone a PS6 handheld — the only mass-market Sony “portable” console history offers is the PS Vita (2011, killed off by 2019) and, more recently, the PS Portal (2023), which is not a standalone console but a streaming client that needs a PS5 and a network connection to run anything. The Switch 2, by contrast, is a real, shipped product: a self-contained handheld/dockable hybrid built on an Nvidia chip widely reported to be fabbed on an older (roughly Samsung 8nm-class) process, which is why posters treat “PS4 Pro-level” as a reasonable ceiling for its graphics. Bridging that to “PS6-level” performance in a fan-sized, battery-powered device is a real engineering problem: smaller nodes (3nm, 2nm) cut power draw per transistor, but cooling, battery capacity, and cost all scale badly once you chase console-class GPUs in a handheld shell — which is exactly why commenters brought up heat, price, and process generation rather than raw specs.

The thread didn’t split over whether Sony could technically build something powerful — it split over credibility: is a claim from an anonymous fan account with no journalism track record worth treating as insider information at all, versus dismissing it outright as fanboy wish-casting. Nobody in the thread engaged with the more basic fact that no PS6 hardware, portable or otherwise, has been confirmed by Sony in any form, timeline, or spec — so the entire debate about nanometers and dock designs is built on a premise the original poster invented, not on anything Sony has disclosed.