PS5 Portable is new handheld rival to Nintendo Switch and Xbox claims report

A caller study has added substance to rumours of a caller PlayStation handheld, but seemingly it’s not the PlayStation 6.

Last year, Sony released a caller handheld instrumentality called the PlayStation Portal, which lets you bask your PlayStation 5 games connected a smaller screen. It doesn’t tally games itself though and conscionable streams them from your existing console.

Much similar the PS5 Pro, the Portal was designed lone arsenic a niche product, for hardcore fans, but portion Sony hasn’t shared nonstop income figures it seems to person proved much fashionable than they expected.

So overmuch truthful that a caller study alleges that Sony is considering taking a due ace astatine the handheld marketplace again with a caller instrumentality inspired by some the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 5.

Is Sony making a caller PlayStation Portable?

According to Bloomberg, Sony is in the aboriginal stages of processing a caller PlayStation handheld device that builds connected the PlayStation Portal, and the extremity is for it to natively tally PlayStation 5 games.

As a reminder, the PlayStation Portal tin lone watercourse games from your PlayStation 5, truthful it won’t enactment without a unchangeable Wi-Fi connection. While not overmuch of an contented erstwhile astatine home, it does mean the Portal is not perfect for agelong bid journeys oregon the like.

Bloomberg’s sources were keen to accent that immoderate caller handheld is inactive years distant from coming out, and Sony could upwind up changing its caput and not merchandise it astatine all.

There was chatter of Sony processing a caller handheld conscionable a fewer months ago, with insider Tom Henderson (who was the archetypal to leak PS5 Pro details) claiming Sony was ‘paying precise adjacent attraction to the existent handheld market.’

There person besides been rumours that a caller portable is being developed alongside the PlayStation 6, and both of them volition marque usage of AMD hardware.

It could beryllium that the 2 devices are 1 and the same, and that’s wherever immoderate of the caller speech astir the PlayStation 6 has travel from, but some possibilities are arsenic hard to imagine.

How Sony would instrumentality thing arsenic large arsenic a PlayStation 5 and shrink it down to the size of a Nintendo Switch is unclear, adjacent with respective years of improving technology, particularly fixed what that implies astir artillery length.

Let’s not hide the crushed the PlayStation 5 is truthful chunky is truthful it tin location the cooling instrumentality and halt the console overheating. So, condensing that into thing you tin comfortably clasp successful your hands would beryllium nary tiny feat.

Why is Sony making a caller PlayStation Portable?

Aside from perchance being emboldened by the Portal’s occurrence (industry expert Mat Piscatella said it was inactive the best-selling gaming accessory of the twelvemonth past month), Bloomberg’s sources said the extremity of the caller handheld is, obviously, to grow Sony’s scope and rival some Nintendo and Microsoft.

Although sales of the Nintendo Switch person been dropping, particularly arsenic involvement shifts to the Switch 2, it’s been tremendously palmy and could precise good go the best-selling console ever by 2025.

Meanwhile, Microsoft admitted it’s processing prototypes for its ain Xbox handheld conscionable a mates of weeks ago. Although, arsenic with Sony, it’s unclear whether they mean for a existent gen instrumentality oregon a adjacent gen model.

It’s not antithetic for some companies to beryllium influenced by Nintendo, arsenic Kinect and PlayStation Move prove, and it whitethorn beryllium that Microsoft and Sony are waiting to spot what the Switch 2 looks similar with much involvement than adjacent astir gamers.

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