Sony You have dated the next PS Portal move. The new model of the device will go on sale on December 10 with a novelty that users had been asking for since the original launch: internal storage. The least kind part is that, for now, it stays in Japan.
The original PS Portal came in 2023 as PlayStation’s bet on portable play, although with an uncomfortable peculiarity: it did not execute anything by itself. Everything happened to stream PS5 games over Wi-Fi, which forced the console to be turned on or to pull cloud streaming with a PlayStation Plus account.
The new PS Portal breaks that dependency. The device can stream digital games over Wi-Fi without having to have a PS5, and adds that internal storage that the first model never had.
PS Portal without PS5: What changes in the new model
The change is not just hardware. Sony has also adjusted the name of the product: Go from “PlayStation Portal Remote Player” to “PlayStation Portal Player”, a adjustment that the company linked to the use of the device is no longer limited to remote play.
The exact capacity of that storage has not transcended. It is the data that is missing to measure to what extent the new model moves away from the previous one, because it depends on it how many games can be saved on the device.
What does not change is the proposal: continue to play the PS5 library on a screen with integrated controls, only now with fewer requirements to boot.
Japan first: Japanese price, reservations and account
The launch is limited to the Japanese market. The new PS Portal only supports Japanese language settings and only works with a Japanese PSN account, the same kind of restriction that accompanies the PS5 exclusive to Japan.
The price is around 40,000 yen, about 253 dollars a change. The figure is approximate and the conversion does not come from Sony, so it is convenient to take it as a reference and not as an official rate.
Reservations open on November 13. Whoever buys the device will also receive a free month of PlayStation Plus Premium.
the date of December 10 and what remains to be confirmed
That same December 10 appears on the PlayStation calendar the DualSense limited edition of Gran Turismo, whose reservations start on October 22. There is no confirmation that both releases share a date or respond to the same ad, so the match deserves caution.
Outside of Japan there is nothing said. It has not been communicated if the model will reach the United States, Europe or other territories, nor if there will be a window in 2027. It has not been detailed which game catalog will be available for streaming by Wi-Fi without PS5.
The new PS Portal remains, for the moment, in the Japanese market: reservations from November 13 and units in stores from December 10. The rest of the world will have to wait for Sony to clarify its plans.
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Source: CBR Games
