In light of the at-the-time recent success of the Steam Deck, Sony’s PlayStation Portal handheld remote game streaming device seemed less than inspiring to much of the gaming community. However, it seems to have been successful enough that Sony is planning a refreshed version of the gaming handheld. According to notable industry insider and frequent leaker, KeplerL2 on the NeoGAF forum, the updated version of the Sony PlayStation Portal will launch at some point in 2026, and the leaker later clarifies that the new handheld will feature an OLED display, instead of the LCD screen found on the current version.
The leaker also had some insights about the upcoming standalone PlayStation 6 Portable handheld that will ostensibly compete with the likes of the Valve Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Xbox Ally, with a comment in the thread indicating that the standalone gaming handheld will be powered by AMD’s upcoming RDNA 5 GPU architecture, as opposed to RDNA 4 from the current RX 9000 GPUs and RDNA 3.5 found in Strix Halo and other iGPUs. Additionally, the leak also verifies previous information that indicated the portable game console would have fewer than 40 CUs, with claims pointing to as few as 16 CUs for the upcoming handheld.
