PlayStation's handheld will finally support dedicated game streaming—and with another portable playing device supposedly inbound, can Sony make cloud gaming take off? If it can't, who else can?

Handhelds are clearly going to continue coming back in a big way, as now even Sony is reportedly developing a proper, non-cloud based portable console.

PLAYSTATION hasn’t released a dedicated handheld console in years, not since the 2012 launch of the PlayStation Vita. In 2023, it released a remote play device called the PlayStation Portal, which

PS Portal has been updated with a beta for PS Plus Premium users that allows you to play PS5 games without the console (via the cloud).

PlayStation Portal now works without a PS5 thanks to cloud-streaming update - You can stream more than 120 games from PS Plus including Ghost of Tsushima and Spider-Man: Miles Morales

The PlayStation Portal is a remote play accessory for the PlayStation 5. An upcoming software update will allow the accessory to stream games from the cloud, as long as you have a PlayStation Plus Premium subscription.

The PlayStation Portal once demanded that players be near an active PS5 to play, but this era may be nearing its end as Sony debuts cloud streaming for the handheld.

It’s not too late for the major console makers to make a handheld, but reports note a PlayStation handheld may still be years away.