Sony: PlayStation Portal Has Been a 'Huge Success' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 January 2025 / 7,189 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment co-CEOs Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino in an interview with BBC in celebration of the 30th anniversary of PlayStation said 2024 has been a year of highs and lows.
Nishino stated the way players play games has been changing and the PlayStation Portal has been a "huge success."
He added, "Recently, we just announced a beta programme... allowing Cloud streaming directly to the handheld. We’re always exploring various options for how players can play games."
PlayStation is happy with the reception of Astro Bot from gamers.
"I cannot express how happy we are with the reception of Astro Bot," said Hulst.
On the opposite end is the failure of Concord and Sony shutting down the game's developer Firewalk Studios, as well as mobile studio Neon Koi.
"Certain aspects of Concord were exceptional, but others did not land with enough players, and as a result we took the game offline," said Hulst.
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All I will say is I can't comprehend why
Some people love gaming while sitting on the toilet.
I have one. It's really awesome. It is by far the most comfortable handheld full stop . It's really light weight and it's got a decent bright screen and displays PS5 graphics. Also it has great battery.
May be making them a good profit per unit, because it doesn't look like it's that hot on sales.
" The PS5 streaming handheld has reportedly managed to edge out the Midnight Black DualSense, making it the best-selling accessory (in dollar sales) in the U.S. for 2024 year-to-date."
so not the highest selling peripheral, not the highest profit peripheral.... just by an arbitrary number to call it #1 and obviously not the two I mentioned because they are more impressive and if they were true they would have said one of them instead. Also it looks like it is a Sony statement about Sony products only
If anything it is probably more successful than Sony thought it was going to be which could easy make it a "huge success" in the companies eyes
How much have it sold? 1 million? 2 million?
More than 1 million is confirmed, but 2 million is not yet confirmed.
Good enough to offset the concord damage? Lol
Based on their last quarterly earnings? Yes.
Would have never guessed. Cool for them.
It may be doing well enough but offer dual screen support and I'll buy one. Android is a bit risky for them to maintain but no dual screen no purchase.
I get not having a full handheld or eshop or otherwise that's totally fine and understandable of further support needed, but giving it more than just no target resolution that Vita had of 360/540p at least yet none of the PS4/PS5, PC< phone/tablet apps offer it just seems odd to me. Will it for the streaming beta? I do wonder about that or doubt it they will.
Or other features just 'basic remote play' is just sort of boring of a product to me. It works but it's not exciting.
But Portal exists to exist and not get dev support at all even though Indies probably would have loved to do some crazy stuff with it but can't because it exists to do the basics and that's it which I think is sad.
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