Sony has officially unveiled the PlayStation Portal, and as a cloud-exclusive Remote Play handheld device, it’s obviously got a few caveats attached. The fact that it can’t play native games – or any native media – is, of course, one of them, while it’s also been confirmed that even the cloud library of PlayStation Plus Premium won’t be supported.
In addition, it’s also been confirmed that the PlayStation Portal won’t have Bluetooth. As reported by The Verge, that means users won’t be able to pair the PS5’s Pulse 3D wireless headset with the handheld device. The newly-revealed Pulse Elite headset and Pulse Explorer earbuds will be supported, but you’ll have to connect them using Remote Play. If you want to use them on a PS5, you’ll have to do so via a USB adapter.
This is such a bizzare narrow product.
Surely they must want it to fail? They must have learned nothing from the PSV. The PSV had a lot of great things, but had its problems. Seems like they thought, “How can we make a worse version of the PSV?”
At least the Vita played games.
And funnily enough. Could also do remote play. I remember playing destiny at work on my vita via wifi. God the psv was great.
It’s almost like they want to make absolutely sure that it will fail