Introducing the PlayStation Portal: A Revolutionary Device for Remote Reading

No longer call it Project Q but “PlayStation Portal”! This August 23, Sony has revealed more information about this product 100% dedicated to reading at a distance. The opportunity to learn some technical details – which correspond 100% to last month’s leaks: an eight-inch LCD screen, displaying 1080p | 60 frames per second, and all the benefits of DualSense (the PS5 controller). And above all, we now have a price: €219.99. The opportunity to answer a question that you are certainly asking yourself. Is this a real console portable?

A “Playback Device to Distance”

Sorry to shatter your dreams, but no, the Portal is not a console laptop itself. In the words of Sony, it is a “playback device with distance”. Understand that there machine has for unique vocation to use PlayStation’s Remote Play technology, which already allows you to play content installed on your PS5 – from a third-party device (PC, Mac, iOS, Android). It works everywhere, whether you are in the bathroom or even on the other side of the world, but it is imperative that the console living room and the object that receives the image (in this case the Portal) have a good internet connection! Here, 15 megabits per second is advised.

Above all, as Sony points out on son blog, “Games streamed using the streaming feature of the PlayStation Plus Premium are not supported (by the Portal)”. Basically, with this new product, you cannot go to the PS Plus and launch a title that has not been installed on your PS5 beforehand – even if the software in question is normally available for streaming.

It’s a bit of a shame, insofar as the cloud will take more and more place on Sony’s subscription offer… In any case, now you know what to expect with the PlayStation Portable. It is also worth pointing out that the Japanese company has never qualified son product of “console”, but “device” or “peripheral”. It’s scheduled to come out this year.