Sony’s PlayStation Portal didn’t excite the senses the way the words “PlayStation handheld” should. Released in 2023, Sony’s “remote player” was designed to stream your games from a PS5 to its 8-inch screen for play in another room. It’s not exactly the kind of device you would want to take on the go. But now, after a free software update , the Portal is its own handheld beast capable of playing games streamed directly from the cloud, no PS5 required.

Sony has been promising this cloud streaming update since November 2024. After a year of testing, Sony’s odd device—literally a DualSense controller flanking an LCD tablet screen—can stream games at 1080p and connect to compatible wireless headsets and earbuds for spatial audio.

Access to cloud streaming will still mandate a PlayStati

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