Recent rumors say that Sony could release a streaming-focused handheld for the PS5’s Remote Play feature.
Sony’s gaming handhelds have typically been potent portables with expansive feature sets for their time. The original PSP could play audio and video off memory sticks, and it even had a web browser—impressive stuff for a handheld device in 2004, three years before the iPhone. The PS Vita had an OLED screen and optional cellular connectivity.While they’ve never been the market success in the US that they were in their native Japan, Sony’s handhelds definitely had their fans around the world. That’s why any news about a next-generation portable is like meat to a starving man—the PS Vita came out in 2012, and Sony gave up on the machine just three years later in 2015.
Well, a new rumor says that Sony will release another handheld gaming device, but don’t leap out of your seat just yet. The rumor originates with Insider Gaming—the source of that divisive PS5 Pro rumor from awhile back—and it says that the next Sony handheld is codenamed the “Q Lite,” and it will be a streaming-exclusive system like Logitech’s G Cloud.
