PlayStation could be working on a console to rival the Switch and it’s not the PS Portal

PLAYSTATION hasn’t released a dedicated handheld console successful years, not since the 2012 motorboat of the PlayStation Vita.

In 2023, it released a distant play instrumentality called the PlayStation Portal, which saw immense success, but required a PS5 successful bid to play.

PlayStation precocious announced that you tin play the PS Portal without a PS5, but you’ll request PS Plus Premium and a beardown net transportation to bash so.

Still, it is 1 measurement person to a dedicated handheld console for the institution that hasn’t released 1 successful implicit a decade.

According to a caller study by Bloomberg, Sony is successful the aboriginal stages of processing a genuinely portable console.

PlayStation seemingly wants to make the instrumentality to vie with Nintendo, which is the starring institution successful the handheld console gaming market.

Xbox brag Phil Spencer has claimed that Microsoft is processing a portable console, but that it’s inactive years from being released.

The study claims that PlayStation’s portable is besides apt years distant from launch, and that the institution could inactive cancel plans to bring it to market.

Bloomberg besides claims that the PS Portal was primitively planned to beryllium a standalone console, akin to Valve’s Steam Deck.

PlayStation has been researching ways to bring the PS5 room to a wider assemblage including making a bigger propulsion for PC and live-service games.

Sony declined to remark to Bloomberg connected its report, and the institution has not publically announced a portable console.

Nintendo is expected to motorboat the Switch successor successful 2025, pursuing the immense occurrence of the original.

It’s 1 of the best-selling consoles of each time, and Nintendo volition physique connected this occurrence by adding backwards compatibility with the Switch’s library.

It is apt that companies similar Valve, PlayStation and Xbox saw the console’s occurrence and that players inactive person a thirst for portable gaming.

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PlayStation’s past portable console wasn’t precise fashionable successful the West, but carved retired a niche successful Japan by catering to women.

It came successful a immense assortment of colour variations with much than 50 designs, and had a wide room of RPGs and ocular novels.

A caller portable PlayStation console is bound to beryllium popular, but we anticipation that Sony nails the selling successful the West this time.

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