The way to pre-order the PlayStation Portal handheld

PlayStation has been drip-feeding details about its new streaming handheld, the PlayStation Portal, in current weeks, however we now know all a very powerful particulars, together with its launch date: 15 November 2023.

Even higher, now you can pre-order the hand held immediately from PlayStation forward of its launch, though it will be out there extra extensively quickly.

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The PlayStation Portal is to date solely out there to pre-order immediately from PlayStation, so make sure you get your order in earlier than inventory runs out!

The truth is, there’s mainly a one-month exclusivity interval for PlayStation Direct – the Portal will probably be open to pre-order by way of different retailers from 29 September 2023, in accordance with Sony.

For now, pre-orders are additionally solely open in sure international locations: the US, UK, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. When 29 September rolls round, Canada and Japan will be a part of the membership.

Priced at $200, should you’re pondering that the Portal may change into a great tool in your family (as an effective way to keep away from hogging the TV, for instance) you may need to get your pre-order in early, because the PS5 launch suggests there could possibly be much less inventory than there may be demand.

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If you happen to’re nonetheless at nighttime over precisely what the PlayStation Portal is, don’t fret – it is mainly a handheld Distant Play machine, one that may allow you to play your PS5 video games with out being in entrance of a TV.

Your PS5 remains to be the one powering its video games, and also you want each that console and your handheld to have a stable web connection for it to work, however aside from that you simply’re untethered.

This makes it doubtlessly ideally suited for one-TV households the place you’d wish to play someplace aside from your sofa, and given its controls are mainly a DualSense chopped in half you get all the identical haptics and management choices as with common play.

It has an 8-inch 1080p LCD show that runs at 60Hz and appears fairly good within the preview footage that has to date been launched, so the indicators level in the direction of it being a extremely satisfying solution to play your PlayStation video games.

There are some limitations, although – particularly, it may possibly’t play any cloud-streamed video games for some cause, and it will additionally haven’t any Bluetooth capabilities, as an alternative utilizing a brand new audio system referred to as PlayStation Link. This implies your current wireless PS5 headset in all probability will not work with it, annoyingly. Not less than there is a 3.5mm jack as a backup, although.