Sony’s $200 handheld “Portal” can stream games from your PS5 and, uh, that’s it

Enlarge / It you want a $200 device that's completely devoted to handheld PS5 Remote Play, Sony has your back. (credit: Sony)

After a May tease for the "PlayStation Q," Sony today officially unveiled the PlayStation Portal, a $200 handheld gaming device (or £200, €220, ¥29,980 in other regions) that it says will be launching "later this year."

The good news: The Portal means Sony is officially rejoining the portable gaming hardware race that it abandoned after years of market struggles for both the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita.

The bad news: The Portal can only run games streamed from a PlayStation 5 via Remote Play and is apparently completely useless for anything else.

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