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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...

See Virtua Tennis 4 touch controls in action on Vita

Virtua Tennis 4 (Power Smash Tennis in Japan) showed off its Vita touch-control moves with some screenshots last week, now there's a video doing the rounds demonstrating how it works in practice (about 30 seconds in). And it looks pretty good, with various ways to play the game.




You can use the motion sensors as the racket head, play multi-player on a single console with an olde-style overhead view and much more. Looks like this is one game where some effort has gone into the additional control modes and while 95% of us will probably stick with the sticks, I'll at least give these a go.

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