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The Portal between you and your PS5 games

Published Aug 24, 2023 01:21 am

At A Glance

  • The PlayStation Portal will cost $199.99
  • The new PSP will play games from the PS5 via Wi-Fi. It will not support Sony's cloud-based subscription or PSVR2 games.
  • Sony also announced the Pulse Elite 3D headphones and the Pulse Explore for lossless audio.

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The PlayStation Portable is one of the best gaming handhelds I’ve tried. It didn’t feel like a toy you can just pocket. The PlayStation Portable felt like a premium piece of hardware, one that delivered an authentic PlayStation experience. The PlayStation Vita, not so much, and it appeared Sony had given up on it too soon in 2015, when they stopped making games for it. 

Fast forward to now, everyone and their mother are very much interested in handheld consoles more than ever. Thank Nintendo for that, followed by the continued momentum delivered by the Steam Deck and the ASUS ROG Ally, and soon more from across the industry. 

So with all of this hype, Sony teased Project Q a few weeks back, now officially called the PlayStation Portal (ah, the new PSP), and it will cost $199, approximately P11,200 (so maybe around P12-15 in retail?). The eight-inch LCD screen comes with controllers that are very much inspired by the PS5’s DualSense and features the same adaptive triggers. Some people find it weird. I get that. The gaps between the controllers’ handles and the screen are kind of jarring. But I think we can all get over it eventually. 

Now the purpose of the PlayStation Portal is to play your PS5 games installed in your console. It doesn’t have games on its own and according to Sony won’t support their cloud streaming using the PlayStation Plus Premium, which is a shame really. But maybe Sony is taking it slow and will eventually roll out the service to the Portal once they’ve tested and stabilized everything. 

In all, the Portal is a companion piece for the PS5, so you can continue playing your games with full mobility. Some part of me wishes you would be able to use the Portal alongside the PS5 to play some co-op games as a pseudo-couch setup. We’ll find out for sure once the Portal is open to all.

Alongside the Portal, Sony shared more details about the Pulse Elite and Pulse Explore. With these audio devices, Sony promises lossless audio, a retractable microphone, and AI-enhanced noise rejection to clear out background noise. Sony said the headphone and earbuds can be used in PCs and Macs using a PlayStation Link USB adapter. It’s also possible to connect the Elite and Explore with the PS5 and a smartphone at the same time, which is both a boon and a curse (kidding, it’s very useful actually). 

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Given Sony has some of the best headphones in the market, there’s really not much room to doubt how the Pulse Elite and Pulse Explore will sound like. Still, we’d be very interested to try them out ourselves. 

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