PlayStation Japan has today announced the PlayStation Portal which will come with a new name (dropping the remote player part of the name), a Midnight Black version and additional internal storage.
PlayStation has said that this extra storage will be used for “future functionality” that will be talked about once the features are finalised. It doesn’t feel like this would be enough storage to store games, so it seems like maybe PlayStation will add other streaming apps to the service but that’s purely speculative.
The new model will also come with PlayStation Plus presumably to test game streaming for those that don’t have a PS5, although we still don’t have any form of Cloud streaming here in Australia, so if we do get this model it’ll be interesting to see what happens there.
At the time of writing this has only been confirmed for Japan, but it’s cool to see the PlayStation Portal take on a life of its own outside of its original intention, and it’ll be interesting to see what PlayStation adds to it.
