Sony’s making a handheld console to compete with Nintendo and Microsoft

Sony is at present making a brand new handheld gaming console that enables customers to play PlayStation 5 video games wherever. Based on Bloomberg, the console is being developed to compete towards Nintendo and Microsoft within the transportable gaming market, and is probably going “years away from launch” — if Sony decides to launch it in any respect.

Sony’s efforts to not be left behind would construct on the PlayStation Portal: the eight-inch gaming gadget it launched final 12 months that wirelessly streams PS5 video games from the cloud — however, based on Bloomberg, was initially meant to perform as a standalone gadget. The brand new gadget would permit video games to be performed natively reasonably than over Wi-Fi, probably increasing Sony’s viewers and making its video games extra accessible.

This isn’t utterly new territory for Sony, having beforehand launched transportable gaming consoles just like the PS Vita and PlayStation Moveable — however these have lengthy since been discontinued.