Sony Reportedly Developing PlayStation Handheld, Similar Rumors and Updates

TapTechNews May 18th news, @AntonLogvinov said that Sony is developing a PlayStation handheld similar to PSP/PSVita, and this handheld will only support PS4 games in the early stage of release, and most of these games can basically be played on a PC, so players can currently get a similar experience through SteamDeck.

This leaker has accurately leaked the news of the landing of Death Stranding and Horizon: Zero Dawn on the PC before, and has a relatively high reliability.

In fact, as early as February, there were similar rumors. MooresLawIsDead also believes that Sony will launch a new handheld. He has accurately leaked the specification information of PS5Pro before. In addition, there have also been reports that Microsoft is also developing a game handheld.

TapTechNews summarizes the relevant revelations of MooresLawIsDead as follows:

The handheld will adopt an AMD custom APU and is currently in the advanced design stage. It is at least two years away from being released.

Compatible with Sony PlayStation4/5 platform games. In order to ensure its compatibility with PS4 games, the handheld may be equipped with 18 CU units; developers need to provide some patches to ensure the smooth running of PS5 games on the handheld.

Because PS5 supports dynamic frequency adjustment, the GPU operating frequency of the new handheld may be limited to less than 1.8 GHz.

The handheld needs two years (or more than two years) to obtain listing approval. MLID speculates that this handheld will become a product of the same generation as the PlayStation6 console.

Before that, Sony has released the streaming device PlayStationPortal. Nishi Nozomi, senior vice president of Sony SIE, said in an interview with AVWatch, a subsidiary of the Japanese media impressWatch, that rather than saying that the design of Sony PlayStationPortal is for profit, it is better to say that Sony plans to increase the game time of players playing PS5. If players can play PS5 anywhere, I think some players will definitely spend more time playing games.

Sony launched a PlayStationPortal streaming handheld last November, priced at $199.99 (TapTechNews note: currently about 1446 yuan), but currently the outside world has mixed opinions about this product.

Nishi Nozomi, senior vice president of Sony SIE, said in an interview that Sony has increased the importance of peripheral equipment since the PS5 era, and claimed that PlayStationPortal did not take into account profits in the design.

Nishi Nozomi claims that rather than saying that the design of Sony PlayStationPortal is for profit, it is better to say that Sony plans to increase the game time of players playing PS5. If players can play PS5 anywhere, I think some players will definitely spend more time playing games.

Nishi Nozomi believes that the goal of PSVR2, Pulse series headphones, Access controller, PlayStationPortal and other devices recently launc hed by Sony is to allow players to more deeply engage in PS5.