Turns out Sony had been working on the Portal since 2017 and it was at one point made from the Dualshock 4.

[Gamernyc78]

Sony Files Patent for What Looks Like a Switch-esque Handheld - IGN

A recently published patent suggests Sony is looking into a new handheld.

www.ign.com

As spotted by NeoGAF user ponpo, the patent was filed back in 2015 but was only just recently published. While the controller pieces on the side look as though they may be detachable, they aren't explicitly shown as being removable from the device.

 

[Johnic]

Too much work for what it is.

 

[JAHGamer]

@Loy310 @anonpuffs another product that was in development long before Jim took over....stop giving that bum undeserved credit. All he's ever done is put games on pc and xbox and greenlight 12 live service games.

 

[ksdixon]

@Loy310 @anonpuffs stop giving that bum undeserved credit. All he's ever done is put games on pc and xbox and greenlight 12 live service games.

Ahh, the Pinnocchio Spencer playbook.

 

[Zzero]

I don't want to say duh but we've seen patents that showed controllers with a big screen from Sony for like five or six years now.

 

[historia]

@JAHGamer with the "If bad thing happens it is his fault but if it is success, it must be because of somebody else

 

[BroodCorp]

Why would the avg person just not use their smartphone or tablet?

 

[JAHGamer]

@JAHGamer with the "If bad thing happens it is his fault but if it is success, it must be because of somebody else

Yes.

 

[JAHGamer]

Why would the avg person just not use their smartphone or tablet?

Because the portal seems to be a much better experience, its not rocket science

 

[Entropi]

I could have always used my phone for remote play, but the Portal makes me want to play my PS5 on the patio or in bed. I’m loving it.

 

[Gamernyc78]

Why would the avg person just not use their smartphone or tablet?

Bro I game remote play on a laptop which I plug in my ps5 controller into but now I'm getting this. It's way lighter, screen is big and it includes the haptics of the controller. Theres alot of reasons ppl will choose this all in one, great solution.

 

[anonpuffs]

@Loy310 @anonpuffs another product that was in development long before Jim took over....stop giving that bum undeserved credit. All he's ever done is put games on pc and xbox and greenlight 12 live service games.

Do you really think this product took 7 years of R&D to come to market? Lol come on. Regardless of whether or not it was a project started under someone else Jim was the one who kept it alive and brought it to market.

 

[nongkris]

I knew a portable was coming based on these patents years ago. I just wrongly assumed it would be able to play its own games and not focus on remote play.

 

[Yurinka]

Yep, they did patent many variants of this concept of a PS gamepad with a display in the middle.

Why would the avg person just not use their smartphone or tablet?

Your smartphone or tablet don't have 16:9 (same aspect ratio than a tv) 8" display, and doesn't have a functional DualSense embedded in the sides.

And probably has worse wifi or display, and if not it's way more expensive.

 

[JAHGamer]

Do you really think this product took 7 years of R&D to come to market? Lol come on. Regardless of whether or not it was a project started under someone else Jim was the one who kept it alive and brought it to market.

yes

 

[Danja]

Andrew House legacy, still saving the PlayStation brand posthumously

 

[anonpuffs]

yes

bruh, the steamdeck started dev in 2017/2018 after the failure of the steam machine and that was way more complex:
-handheld device from a company with no history of handheld device development unlike Sony which has had several
-creation of a completely new bespoke OS out of nothing, based on a fractured Linux environment, to emulate Windows DirectX as opposed to something built off of existing android tablets and displays that leverages existing remote play software
-needed to incorporate heavy duty compute in cpu/gpu instead of just networking chips
-complete ground-up controller design vs using a split-in-half dualsense

Come on Sony isn't that incompetent that they needed 7 years to come up with the portal

 

[JAHGamer]

bruh, the steamdeck started dev in 2017/2018 after the failure of the steam machine and that was way more complex:
-handheld device from a company with no history of handheld device development unlike Sony which has had several
-creation of a completely new bespoke OS out of nothing, based on a fractured Linux environment, to emulate Windows DirectX as opposed to something built off of existing android tablets and displays that leverages existing remote play software
-needed to incorporate heavy duty compute in cpu/gpu instead of just networking chips
-complete ground-up controller design vs using a split-in-half dualsense

Come on Sony isn't that incompetent that they needed 7 years to come up with the portal

I was kidding, it obviously didn't take 7 years but it shows that most of the groundwork was laid before he came into the picture (like with literally everything else except support for pc/xbox/gaas). Streaming/remote play has only grown and improved since then, so there was no reason to cancel it. I'm not joking when I say he deserves credit for everything bad and no credit for anything good.

 

[anonpuffs]

I was kidding, it obviously didn't take 7 years but it shows that most of the groundwork was laid before he came into the picture (like with literally everything else except support for pc/xbox/gaas). Streaming/remote play has only grown and improved since then, so there was no reason to cancel it. I'm not joking when I say he deserves credit for everything bad and no credit for anything good.

I'm not saying jim personally put on a lab coat and made it himself lol, just that he oversaw it launching right now. Part of marketing is the timing of products. If we can kill him for pc ports that probably started before him then we can give him credit when something launching under him does well. Again I don't even like the guy or how he tilted PS into a moneygrubbing machine going full speed towards gaas but I have to keep it real.

Also without Jim you wouldn't have the absolutely hilarious headline of PS Portal outselling xbox entirely:



"Per manufacturer request" is cold af lmao

 

[Kokoloko]

@JAHGamer with the "If bad thing happens it is his fault but if it is success, it must be because of somebody else

Well lets see it sell past 10million before we call it a success.
But PS brand power from last gen has helped PS5 sales. He’s made some good decisions with supply issues and stocks around the world. Pricing, have a digital model close to series S price was good too.

Other than that I dont think Hermen or Jim have been great