My colleague Devindra Hardawar called it “baffling” in our PlayStation Portal review, and many of his criticisms still stand two years later. I was happy to ignore the Portal as a result. Besides, I already owned a bunch of devices that covered every way I wanted to play.

Sony finally launched limited cloud streaming for PS Plus games in 2024, and last week it went one step further and allowed you to broadcast your own games straight from the cloud

Even if you don't care about streaming, it's a sign of what's to come with the rumored handheld PlayStation 6.

The PlayStation Portal is the rare product that launched as a truly baffling device, but has evolved into something genuinely useful. At first, it could only stream games from your PlayStation 5, it lacked core features for a handheld like Bluetooth audio and it felt a bit overpriced at $200 for such a limited product.

Sony's latest PlayStation Portal handheld will soon be able to stream games directly from the cloud, breaking its exclusive Remote Play functionality.

As I'm having a mini break again soon, I'll test the Portal remotely again and find out if the upgrade has changed anything in that regard. As things stand though, I can honestly say that this could have become the handheld of the moment.

Sony senior manager of product management Takuro Fushimi in an interview with TechRadar the PlayStation Portal is now [...]

Cloud gaming on the PlayStation Portal has gotten a lot better this week, as the handheld now lets you stream PS5 games from your library. These are games

Cloud streaming officially goes live on the PS Portal later today, meaning you can finally play games on the handheld without connecting to a PS5.

PlayStation Portal is becoming an increasingly appealing proposition, as Sony has now added cloud streaming to the device's repertoire.