Rediscovered Patent Suggests PS Portal Was In the Works Since at Least 2015
Could've been a PS4 device.
It appears that Sony has been planning a dedicated Remote Play handheld for a long time. In fact, there's evidence suggesting work began on what would become PS Portal at least eight years ago — long enough back that it could've potentially been made for PS4.
Fans have dug up a patent, filed by Sony in 2015 and published two years later, depicting a device visually very similar to the Portal. It was reported on by IGN at the time, where it was speculated that the mystery handheld might've been Sony's answer to the Nintendo Switch. However, it's almost certainly an early patent for the PS Portal.
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