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- The Sony PlayStation Portal is a Remote Play handheld coming this year for $199.
- Portal will need a PlayStation 5 to work and will only do Remote Play sessions.
- Sony is also launching a new set of PlayStation earbuds and an advanced version of its Pulse headset.
We’ve been seeing plenty of rumors over the past few months related to a new handheld gaming device from Sony PlayStation. Although we’ve known for a while now that it is not a PSP-style standalone gaming product, we now know more about it than ever before.
The device is officially known as the Sony PlayStation Portal. As we already know, it needs to connect to a PlayStation 5 to work. It uses Remote Play to stream games from the PS5 either at home or on the go. Essentially, it’s a portable PS5, but you need to be connected to Wi-Fi for it to work (there is no SIM/eSIM available with the Portal).