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Possible new PlayStation Portal model pays homage to the Vita's OLED

While much of the focus on PlayStation's next steps is the PS6 and PS6 Portable , the two-year old PlayStation Portal could be getting a revamp according to those pesky internet rumours.  Update : Hints at pricing are around £/$250-299 for the new model, but everything remains deeply in rumours territory. Presumably the goal is to hit the 10% (currently 7%-ish) adoption rate among PS5 owners, something that would make it a bone fide hit gadget.   The recent February  PlayStation State of Play  saw no announcement. But, PlayStation needs to make Portal more a core member of the PS5 family, rather than the distant cousin that most of its appearances suggest.  As the improvement in connectivity and streaming tech, proven by many gamers enjoying their PS5 or PlayStation Plus streamed content from around the world, an updated Portal Pro could be on the cards.  Possibly featuring a 120Hz display and an OLED screen in honour of the mighty Vita, that'd be coo...

My Million Nanocent Sony Vita Idea: The Musical Instrument

Having seen some of the quirky uses for the PlayStation Vita's rear panel, might I suggest my own:

The Vita Instrument: A full sampler system with six "strings" or pads across the rear panel for users to play. It could be a guitar, a drum-pad, a theremin, wave modulator, or anything else the creator wants to play. As with other sample-based systems, it can use time signatures to keep everything together.

Use the shoulder buttons to move between tracks, play your tunes, add a vocal track via the microphone (it could even use autotune to make you sound good) and you have a whole studio in your hands, one that is far more intuitive to create with than the fill-in-the-box approach of most music creators.

But, the cool part is, as well as being a recording studio, it could be used live. Mic it up and you have a novel, highly portable, instrument that could replace having to lug a guitar around. Sure you wouldn't see Metallica or  The Prodigy widdling with it on stage, but any of the tech-obsessed groups (especially those on Sony labels) would stand out using it to create real live music.

Just a thought! And a shame there isn't a Sony home developer community to encourage this kind of work!

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