PlayStation's handheld will finally support dedicated game streaming—and with another portable playing device supposedly inbound, can Sony make cloud gaming take off? If it can't, who else can?

Handhelds are clearly going to continue coming back in a big way, as now even Sony is reportedly developing a proper, non-cloud based portable console.

But the PlayStation Portal won’t stream any PS4 or PS3 games, nor any PS5 game you bought from the PlayStation Store.

Sony is reportedly working on a new portable PlayStation that will rival the Nintendo Switch in the true sense.

A new firmware update for the PlayStation Portal allows users to play certain games without the need for a PS5, but there's a catch.

A year after launching its handheld gaming device, PlayStation has announced an update to PS Portal. Announced in a blog post on Wednesday, the company announced a system software update to its remote player,

The PlayStation Portal can now stream cloud games via PS Plus, and that's a reason to pick one up even without a Black Friday discount.

Sony is bringing a big new feature to the PlayStation Portal: cloud streaming. When it first launched, the device was only able to stream games from your PS5 over Wi-Fi. But as part of a new system update that’s rolling out starting later today,

Sony has pushed a massive PlayStation Portal update that makes the handheld accessible to players without a PlayStation 5 console. Rather than streaming games exclusively from the player's PS5, the Portal is now also compatible with PlayStation Plus Premium,

There is a catch – the feature is only available to PS Plus Premium members at present, as cloud streaming is exclusive to that tier. It costs £13.49 / $17.99 per month for online play, access to the ever expanding PS5/PS4 games catalogue, an extended library of classic and retro games and, of course, the ability to stream games over the cloud.