PlayStation Portal out in 2023 for $199

Maintaining media momentum despite not having an official presence in this week’s Gamescom exhibition, Sony unveiled more details about the handheld device it tentatively <a href="https://www.thepoint.online/sony-playstation-project-q-streaming-handheld/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">announced as Project Q</a> during <a href="https://www.thepoint.online/sony-playstation-showcase-may-2023-announcements-impressions/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">the May PlayStation Showcase</a>. Its official name is PlayStation Portal and it’s exactly what the company promised: a way for people to play PS5 games they own, streaming from their own PS5, anywhere there’s a strong Wi-Fi connection. As previously disclosed, it will be available later this year and Sony has settled on its pricing too: it’s $199, which will probably seem either too high or perfectly reasonable, depending on what one thinks of the product in the first place. The PlayStation Portal is, essentially, an 8-inch, 60 Hz, LCD screen of 1080p resolution with half a DualSense controller attached to it from either side. The screen size seems large enough to be expansive without the device being too large to use comfortably, while the resolution is perfect for the intended purpose of this product. Sony has not yet finalized the battery size of this thing, so it did not share any battery life estimates — the company did mention, though, that “the target is DualSense-level battery life”. Given the fact that there’s room for a bigger battery behind that 8-inch screen than the one in a DualSense, but bearing in mind that the same screen also requires power, five to six hours of operation at most is what one can reasonably expect from a PlayStation Portal. <a href="https://medium.com/turn-on-press-play/playstation-portal-out-in-2023-for-199-73f6d754fff3">Click Here</a>