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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...

Latest Sony sales figures, less PlayStation Home, more PlayStation bedsit

Sony is trying its hardest to disguise its PlayStation sales figures, lumping TV (PS2 and PS3) and portable (PSP and Vita) consoles together to hide the splits, Whatever the intention, it merely looks like a poor effort to hide an uncomfortable truth, especially when it prints rivals' sales device-by-device.

While the gaming division made a small profit of $29 million, sales are falling fast for hardware (according to the latest figures with the Vita selling barely 5,000 units in Japan last week, and the PSP doing most of the leg work).

Handheld Ja-Mr'12       Ap-Jn'12            Jl-Sp'12             Oc-Dc'12 (2012 - YTD)
3DS         2.10             1.86                    3.20                   -               7.16 (million)
PSV/PSP 0.9               1.4                      1.6                     -               3.9 (million)
NDS        0.46             0.54                    0.44                   -               1.44 (million)

Software sales

FY 2012/13                  5.8                     8.7                      -               14.5 (million)

Sony's reduced forecast of 10 million handheld units (down from 16 million estimated, which had already been reduced to 12 million) already looks pretty hollow with it at only 3 million in this financial year. Things aren't looking good, but all Sony needs is a kick-off in the west from Assassin's Creed, Need for Speed, Black Ops and the other games and a ball could start rolling (and any confirmation about the release of a certain Capcom title in Japan).

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