Sony quietly reveals a new PlayStation Portal with mystery storage — Japan and Korea only
Sony has quietly announced a revised PlayStation Portal, now renamed the PlayStation Portal Player, for Japan and South Korea. The headline change is additional internal storage, added, in Sony’s words, “with an eye towards future functionality” — but the company has not said how much storage was added or what it is for, promising details once its plans are finalised. Everything else stays the same: the 8-inch 1080p LCD screen, the streaming-only design for PS5 Remote Play and PlayStation Plus Premium cloud gaming, and no sign of the long-rumoured OLED upgrade. The Midnight Black model launches on 10 December for ¥39,980 in Japan and ₩378,000 in South Korea, the same price as the current model, with pre-orders opening 13 November and a month of PlayStation Plus Premium in the box. Both versions are region- and language-locked, and Sony has announced no plans to sell the revised model elsewhere.
Sources: Notebookcheck — Sony’s new PlayStation Portal gets more storage for mysterious future features, but still no OLED, 9 Nov · TweakTown — Sony’s upgraded Japan-only PS Portal with built-in storage might finally allow for local gaming, 9 Nov