The latest PlayStation Portal update is here, and it makes everything look and feel slicker, but also brings a feature that all of us wanted from the start.
The PlayStation Portal is getting a huge new update this week
Cloud streaming will come out of its Beta phase and be open to all PS Plus Premium subscribers
Users can now stream their own PS5 games, and make use of a host of new audio, accessibility, and UI changes
It’s finally time, fellow PlayStation Portal owners and fans: cloud streaming for your own PS5 games is actually here.
In an extensive and huge update dropping tomorrow (November 6) for the PlayStation Portal, Cloud Streaming will come out of its Beta form and will now be fully available for PlayStation Plus Premium members. It’s joined by a host of other new features and updates, all of which look to enhance the experience of playing games on the Portal, affecting aesthetics and the slickness of audio and accessibility settings.
I had the opportunity to be pre-briefed about the imminent update and spoke to Takura Fushimi, Senior Manager, Product Management, at Sony, so I gained an insight into some of the features — and got excited about them ahead of time too. I’ve talked about the major ones below.Into the clouds
The biggest new feature is that you can now cloud stream your own games from your library, and it’s launching out of its Beta stage tomorrow (November 6)! This unlocks an excellent new way for PS5 or PS5 Pro players like me to work their way through their backlogs, and delivers on the functionality we PS5 fanatics and enthusiasts wanted from the Portal when it first launched way back in November 2023.
