PlayStation Portal looks much more amateurish than this concept!

PlayStation Portal requires an internet connection to play games on your PlayStation 5. You can’t do that locally. Nor can you stream games from the cloud with PlayStation Plus. So you can’t really call it a truly portable platform. So someone came up with a unique solution that will probably never be mass-produced, even though it has a lot of potential.

The name of the DIY Perks channel may sound familiar. Last year, this YouTube channel created a PlayStation 5 in true slim form (a redesigned model released by Sony in the fall, which didn’t come with a price cut, can’t be considered such). Now, the PlayStation 5: Tablet Edition has been created courtesy of the channel, making this the first truly portable version of Sony’s current generation console. You can watch its creation in the video embedded below.

Meanwhile, Sony is rumored to be working on the PlayStation 5 Pro. We’ve previously reported that it could be released later this year. It could feature an eight-core Zen 2 processor running at just over four gigahertz. The graphics chip will be RDNA 3 based with 60 CU (compute units) and could run between 2500-2800 megahertz. This could be paired with 16 gigabytes of GDDR6 memory at 18000 MT/s. The Zen 2 processor doesn’t sound much more powerful than the base model, and there are a number of reasons why Sony might have stuck with it (lower manufacturing costs, so the price of the PlayStation 5 Pro itself won’t go up too much; native support for games made for the original processor).

Looking at the PlayStation 5: Tablet Edition, it’s a shame that Sony left the handheld market after the PlayStation Vita only made a long-term impact in Japan (portability was a big factor, but the Nintendo Switch eventually retired it there along with the Nintendo 3DS). PlayStation Portal can’t do much to change that. Maybe it doesn’t want to.

Source: WCCFTech