Sony launches cloud gaming on PlayStation Portal for all

While Google’s Stadia mission is changing into a distant reminiscence, cloud gaming lives on, and Sony is now embracing it additional with its PlayStation Portal handheld lastly including cloud gaming for everybody.

The PlayStation Portal is a handheld in the identical realm because the Steam Deck, however it doesn’t really do something by itself. Instead, it depends on you already having a PlayStation 5 console that the Portal then streams. The apparent reply to getting the Android-based handheld to do extra by itself, although, has all the time been cloud gaming.

Following assessments, Sony has introduced that, beginning right this moment, all PlayStation Portal homeowners will have the ability to utilizing cloud gaming on the hand held.

This will embody entry to “select digital PS5 games from their own library” while not having to hook up with a PlayStation 5 by way of Remote Play. There’s additionally a catalog of PlayStation video games accessible by way of cloud streaming by way of PlayStation Plus.

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The Portal will likely be up to date with a brand new “Cloud Streaming home screen” in addition to a search choice to kind by way of video games that you simply both personal or have entry to by way of PlayStation Plus to then play on the hand held. The replace additionally provides some new options comparable to 3D Audio assist and a passcode lock, in addition to a community standing web page (that actually ought to have been accessible all alongside).

The “catch,” although, is that PlayStation Portal homeowners can solely use cloud gaming if they’ve a PlayStation Plus Premium subscription. That’s Sony’s highest subscription tier and prices $17.99 monthly. The value may be lessened with 3-month ($49.99) or 12-month ($159.99) choices.

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