Sony has twice tested the waters in portable gaming, with the unsuccessful but fondly remembered PSP and Vita. Third time lucky is the hope with PlayStation Portal, a handheld gaming device that — there’s no getting around it — is more or less a supercharged version of Nintendo’s endearingly confusing Wii U.
Teased in May, the Portal is essentially a PS5 controller (touchpad, haptics and all) split down the middle with an 8-inch, 1080p LCD. It plays any game your PS5 has at 60 FPS by streaming the image over wi-fi, though already-streaming games via PS Now and VR ones are not supported. And of course you can’t play on the train or a long flight.
As with the Wii U, the idea is that if someo...
