Sony’s claims about DualSense on the display are becoming increasingly nonsensical.

We wrote a few days ago that the PlayStation Portal, released this week, would later be able to stream from the cloud, as there is no technological barrier to this. This was quite shocking, as it would have been possible to offer this functionality to consumers out of the box, and so the device, which probably not many people wanted, will not be able to compete with the Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck and many handheld devices that can only be used for cloud services!

We’ve already quoted from an interview with Hideaki Nishino, Sony’s Senior Vice President of Platform Experience, in the Japanese publication AV Watch, but there’s another comment there that we find puzzling. According to Nishino, the PlayStation Portal was not created for profit. In fact, there is limited use of the gadget at the moment, but Nishino added that it was aimed at a certain demographic so that they could play PlayStation 5 games away from the console.

But how many people would invest in a PlayStation Portal for that reason? In fact, if demand isn’t as high as Sony expects, the balance sheet will certainly be negative, so we wouldn’t be surprised to see Sony raise the price of all three tiers of PlayStation Plus again next year! How many other companies have released a console or accessory that wasn’t profitable? Are we being made to look like business fools by Sony?

The most incomprehensible thing is that PlayStation Portal was not launched to support streaming of PlayStation Plus games by default. If you don’t have a PlayStation 5, you can’t use it, even if you buy one. So the explanation is completely illogical and incomprehensible, and we wouldn’t be surprised if, in addition to the PlayStation VR2, the sales figures for this device were not disclosed. We haven’t had PlayStation Plus subscriber figures for six months.

Source: WCCFTech