It’s always nice to spice up a summer console showcase with a little hardware reveal, but Sony’s unveiling of its Project Q handheld at the PlayStation Showcase on Wednesday was one of the more head-scratching ones. Perhaps Sony couldn’t get it working well enough at cost — but then again, perhaps investing a little extra and risking a higher price point might have been worth it to increase the utility of the device, and to future-proof it. Sony is an entertainment industry giant built on the back of an old-school consumer electronics manufacturer, and many of the people in power there are either engineers who excel at building gadgets or marketers (like PlayStation boss Jim Ryan) who excel at putting them in boxes and selling them