
Sony has once again expanded the number of games available to stream on its PS Portal handheld, including support for over 50 PS1 and PSP titles. That means PS Plus Premium members can stream these titles directly to the peripheral, without necessarily needing a PS5.
Among the games available are legitimate PlayStation classics like Wild Arms, Everybody’s Golf, and Twisted Metal. All of these titles are using Sony’s emulator, so you can enjoy contemporary features like save states, rewind, and, in many cases, Trophies.
This latest content drop doesn’t include every PS1 and PSP game in the PS Plus Premium catalogue, as some third-party titles like Disney Pixar’s Up and Worms Armageddon are absent. But it spans a good chunk of them.
Obviously, there are better ways to play classic retro games on a handheld, but the Japanese giant has been making more and more games available to stream on the PS Portal, adding even more functionality to the extremely popular peripheral. We imagine it’ll eventually extend support for emulated PS2 games, too.
How do you feel about this PS Portal feature? Is it something you’ve personally been taking advantage of? How else do you think Sony can improve upon its Remote Play handheld? Let us know in the comments section below.
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My brother is playing the Plucky Squire using cloud streaming on the Portal. He's been pretty impressed by it. Never thought much of cloud streaming for games but the Portal has made me a believer that they definitely something there. If they can get it working for games we own in the library and get it running in more countries, it could be huge for lower income regions.
The Steam Deck costs too much (and frankly is too heavy to be a good handheld) and Nintendo doesn't really sell consoles officially in lower income countries so your only option is the extremely expensive grey market.
@breakneck The PS Plus cloud streaming technology is really good. It's massively underrated IMO because Sony doesn't talk about it much, but it works extremely well.
Not perfect, of course, but very usable.
@breakneck you cant realty compare a portal to a steam deck as the steam deck plays them natively where as they are streamed on a portal.
it cant even play ps1 games natively it has to stream them
I have the portal and it works great, I'm glad they finally came out with the Cloud gaming feature because sometimes it's really fun to play old classics, that never gets old
A legal retro handheld. The legitimacy may be in the eye of the beholder when having to stream games many other dedicated handhelds can run a massive library of quite natively. But for those already making use of Portal RP anyway, this may have well been an annoying omission, so cheers where due.
The Portal is a fantastic handheld and the cloud streaming feature has definitely boosted it's value, I've played it so much more since they added that. Recently started Death Stranding using it and it runs perfectly and in 1080p, Sony probably have the best cloud technology I've tried so far.
Don't remember my PSP, Vita or Switch needing to be connected to the WiFi to play a game...
Cloud streaming works great for me (admittedly I'm on 1Gig fibre). Would be great to get PS3 games streaming like they do on the tethered consoles.
In the past few months this has gone from a purchase I was very happy with to the best purchase I've made in years.
Can't wait to see what they do with the next handheld.
I noticed a few of these pop up last week, thought it was odd they didn't do a full announcement as it's a hefty improvement to the amount of games you can stream.
It was a brilliant device before they added this feature, this just takes it one step further.
Awesome what they're doing with this, just wish it was more global so I could use it
@Shepherd_Tallon 100% agree. I bought one at launch and, even though I sit squarely in the target market, the limited use case meant it was a 'nice to have' option when the TV was in use. Fast forward to now and the additional streaming functionality means I can't stop picking it up. As a way of maximising gaming time in a busy household, it's amazing.
There's already a handheld console that does that it's called the Vita and you can take it anywhere still play the games not tied to an internet connection and actually own the game.
@sanderson72 oh the horror! In 2025 everything needs internet connectivity, as I type this from my iPhone. For the price the portal is pretty amazing.
@Lindy01 If the rumours are true of Sony coming out with a self contained proper handheld alongside the PS6, with that functionality as an option, then I'd be excited.
I think this is great, but your ads are beginning to make the experience of going to push Square Not so fun anymore. I understand your need for revenue, but this is becoming ridiculous.
I wrote a large comment on the other article, so I won’t repeat my fondness for the Portal…, but as it relates to this subject of retro cloud streaming, it’s certainly some nice additions for those into revisiting older titles. I’m not too interested in retro gaming, personally.
What I’m hoping for is a better way to view the cloud gaming library. Presently there’s no way to filter the titles, they’re not in alphabetical order, and it’s just a weird smorgasbord of games that is now quite large to dig through to find what you want. It’s still a beta so I suspect filtering and searching features will come eventually.
The other request I’d have is including our digital purchases into the Portal cloud library and not staying limited to PS+ games. If and when this happens, it will change my game purchasing habits and shift me even further from physical game purchases.
Basically the same games that have been on PS3 PSN for years until they started removing some. The PS1/2 games for the UK have been crap Sony have never really tried to get any more on it, remember when the store finally started getting new stuff. And where all like can't wait for PS1 and 2 games to come
@UltimateOtaku91 I’d argue that GeForce Now is probably the best. The fact it can get up to 120fps and still feel native with input response is nuts.
I can remote to my PC using Sunshine as the host and Moonlight as the client and no matter where I am it feels darn-near native (only reason I mention is because it’s built off the technology GeForce Now uses).
I was playing games on a public wifi and it still felt native (I had to lower the bitrate on the client end, but controls were responsive even if resolution quality was lower).
I could play Alan Wake 2 from my PC to a friends house an hour away and was totally fine (using a controller).
Sony is definitely in second place - Remote Play is also very responsive. Input response feels great. Resolution is high. Framerate is great. And it can do HDR!
Microsoft is, again, in third place (just can’t seem to ever get out of third place can it). Picture quality just isn’t there and Remote Play is spotty (too many times it is unable to connect despite having it enabled on the console and the system is in standby). Though, input response feels pretty good.
@sanderson72 Sure at 2-3x the cost.
@GamingFan4Lyf I have yet to try Geforce now but i went to subscribe a couple of months ago but all their tiers were sold out and not accepting any new members. I am currently on the waiting list though for the middle tier.
This just keeps getting better and better! I wish they’d also make a different version with a bit of storage, around 128GB, and a capable chipset to download and natively play those PS1 and PS2 classics. Making it a native retro handheld as well as a streaming handheld
@UltimateOtaku91 Wait list for cloud service?! Sheesh!
I had a free trial a while back when I had a potato laptop. It was more just a curiosity for me. I was very impressed and I couldn’t believe I was streaming (on a wireless connection, too).
But it wasn’t until I got my Gaming PC and researched Moonlight and Sunshine for my own game streaming that I fully saw just how powerful the tech really is.
Moonlight as a streaming host is sadly no more since it relied on the old Nvidia App and the new App made it obsolete. Sunshine is the alternative and it’s hardware agnostic.
It’s super easy to setup, too.
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