Sony is bringing a big new feature to the PlayStation Portal: cloud streaming. When it first launched, the device was only able to stream games from your PS5 over Wi-Fi. But as part of a new system update that’s rolling out starting later today,

Sony has pushed a massive PlayStation Portal update that makes the handheld accessible to players without a PlayStation 5 console. Rather than streaming games exclusively from the player's PS5, the Portal is now also compatible with PlayStation Plus Premium,

But the PlayStation Portal won’t stream any PS4 or PS3 games, nor any PS5 game you bought from the PlayStation Store.

While the PlayStation Portal offered a way to play PS5 games remotely, it wasn’t a standalone handheld. In fact, it’s been about 14 years since the PS Vita appeared, and now, according to a report from Bloomberg,

Sony’s PS5 Pro has been out less than a month, but there’s already speculation about what its next gaming hardware release could have in store for us. And the latest report isn’t about some even more high-performance PS6 – rather,

Originally designed to be a standalone device, Sony's eight-inch gaming device, the PlayStation Portal, wirelessly broadcasts PS5 games from the cloud. It was first introduced last year

When it comes to the current console makers, only Nintendo has a dedicated device that competes in the handheld market with the Nintendo Switch. The system has been on the market

Sony is looking to get in on the handheld console action, with a console they're hoping to rival the Nintendo Switch with.