I’m a sucker for a shiny new gaming handheld, especially one of the Sony kind. Nothing quite beats the feeling of binging another re-watch of some cheesy crime shows on your big TV while still being able to catch up on your gaming backlog. To date, the PS Vita is still my absolute favorite portable handheld to play on the go, even beating out my love for the Nintendo Switch and Steam Deck. However, without a PS Vita 2 on the horizon, it was inevitable I’d pick up the next best thing instead, the PlayStation Portal.
Already being a proud owner of the PSP, PS Vita, and even the long-forgotten PSVita TV, I knew a PS Portal would one day be mine. That said, with the $200 / £200 price point, and the fact I’ve already been remote-playing my PS5 on Valve’s pixel pusher for a year now, I wasn’t in too much of a rush to pick one up last year. It wasn’t until the announcement that the PS Portal could stream games without relying on your PS5 that I finally added it to my shiny Sony tech collection. But now, with the announcement of the upcoming Midnight Black model, I wish I held out a little longer.
