There are projects that we don’t expect. The new one apparently underway at PlayStation is certainly one of them and that is enough to make us curious.
The future of consoles is raising more and more questions. The arrival on the market of machines that can only support dematerialized games and attempts at cloud gaming strongly question the physical format. At the same time, another trend is boosting manufacturers: portable consoles.
Currently, the Nintendo Switch remains the main representative in this area. But a major competitor, even if it remains marginal compared to the sales of Big N’s machine, has also emerged: the Steam Deck. But where are the other manufacturers? As rumors swirl about a portable Xbox Series, it could be that PlayStation also prepare something…
PlayStation Portable, the return?
After the release of PlayStation Portal, which allows its PS5 games to be played in the cloud, Sony is preparing a real portable console. It was Russian journalist Anton Logvinov who shared the news on Telegram. According to what he heard, he claims that the manufacturer “ prepares a new PSP “.
But what he reports leaves him doubtful, and so do we. Apparently, the starting line-up would only consist of PS4 games. More precisely, these would be titles which have already been ported to PC. We think in particular of the Horizon license or Ghost of Tsushima. However, these productions are, for the most part, also optimized for the Steam Deck. In fact, Valve’s portable console was designed to accommodate games from the Steam catalog, therefore PC games optimized for the portable machine.
This makes sense, because these games have already been redesigned to be playable on portable consoles. You might respond that this is also the case for PS5 games accessible on PS Portal. If the console becomes clearer, one option should not be overlooked. In fact, we can perfectly imagine that the games for Sony’s latest home console only arrive after the fact.
Finally, the journalist adds that “ distribution networks are quite skeptical “. He concludes with two hypotheses: either Sony is preparing something completely different and this line-up would not be the real one planned, or the manufacturer would have kept information to itself, preferring not to publicize the project too much to its partners in the immediate. A news PlayStation Portablee to watch, therefore.