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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.   There's a PlayStation State of Play coming up on 12th February that might act as an announcement point. Certainly, PlayStation needs to make Portal more a core member of the PS5 family, rather than a 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 ...

Sony can't even mention the Vita by name in new advert

Sony's latest advert for Remote Play shows off the Vita, but since Sony doesn't make or sell them anymore, there's little point in name-checking it as that would "confuse" consumers - in the beady eyes of their marketing team. This is likely a response to the arrival of Google Stadia, the over-priced streaming only service that will die horribly pretty quickly, I reckon.

To be fair, the Remote Play experience with a DualShock and iPhone is pretty much the bees knees, since the iOS 13 update (if you get some gonky connector). But there's still nothing quite like playing on the Vita.

Of course, this wouldn't be a problem if the HD update Vita 2 (or whatever) had been rolled out to challenge the Switch. There has been some recent media fuss (all based on one patent for some shitty memory card or storage - Sony stop it, proprietary storage is dead!) which addled minds have linked to a new portable. But I'll believe and write about that when there's something more concrete.


Currently playing on my Vita/PS3/PS4/PS5


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