How to order PlayStation Portal: Sony’s new PS5 handheld

Back in May, Sony unveiled Project Q, a new handheld gaming console that enables you to stream PlayStation 5 games to a portable screen.

More recently, we found out the handheld console is known as the PlayStation Portal and what’s more, we’re edging ever closer to the release date, too. You can now pre-order PlayStation Portal.

PlayStation Portal lets you play PS5 games on the go. Games need to be installed on your PlayStation 5 (with a 15Mbps Wi-Fi connection), and then are streamed to the handheld device. Games will be able to run at up to 60fps. The device features an 8-inch LCD display at Full-HD resolution, a built-in DualSense controller either side of the screen with all the same buttons including the adaptive triggers (plus haptic feedback), and a “long-lasting” battery – we still don’t know just how long-lasting that will be at present.

You can pre-order PlayStation Portal from the following retailers:

The new handheld console is also available for pre-order directly from Sony’s websites. In the US, it’ll retail for $200, and you can pre-order the Portal from Sony US. In the UK, it’ll retail for £200, and you can pre-order the device from Sony UK.

PlayStation Portal release date

PlayStation Portal will launch in the United States, Europe, and Japan later this year. Sony confirmed that the console will be released in the UK and US on 15 November – but there’s no word on other regions just yet. Customers will be limited to purchasing one console per order due to high demand, similar to when the PS5 first launched.

As well as the new PS5 Slim, Sony is also launching even more products soon in the form of the PlayStation Pulse Elite and Pulse Explore – a wireless headset and earbuds.

They’re able to offer lossless audio, says Sony, thanks to PlayStation Link, a low latency, lossless audio tech that is able to easily switch between multiple PlayStation Link hosts such as a PS5 with the USB adapter and PlayStation Portal. If you want to use earbuds with the Portal they will need to support PS Link – there’s no Bluetooth support for other wireless headphones in the device.

The wireless earbuds are called PlayStation Pulse Explore. They come with a charging case and cost $200/£200. Pulse Elite comes with a charging stand, retractable boom mic and AI-enhanced noise-filtering of background sounds – note there’s no active noise cancellation (ANC). They’ll cost $150/£130. We don’t have release dates for either of these products as yet, but they’ll be launched over the coming weeks.



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