Sony built one of the most comfortable controllers on the market and then had the good sense to glue a screen to the middle of it.
The PlayStation Portal, Sony’s dedicated Remote Play handheld, has dropped to £185 from its usual £199.99, a saving of just over 16% that brings genuine PS5 console quality controls within easier reach.
There’s 16% off the PS Portal right now
The PS Portal at this price solves a genuinely specific Playstation problem rather than promising to be everything to everyone.
That price drop matters because the Portal isn’t trying to be a cut-price alternative to anything; it’s a purpose-built device that lets you play your PS5 over home Wi-Fi. That feel is the whole pitch, because the Portal is built around a full split DualSense rather than a generic gamepad bolted to a tablet.
Adaptive triggers and haptic feedback carry over from the original controller, so the resistance you feel pulling a trigger in a supported game still lands the way the developers intended it to.
The hand grips are slightly less rounded than the standalone DualSense, but the finger travel between sticks, d-pad and face buttons stays close enough that switching from the TV to the Portal barely registers as a transition at all.
Sitting in the middle of that controller is an 8-inch LCD running at 1080p with a 60Hz refresh rate, noticeably larger than the screens on most rival handhelds in this space. It means your existing PS5 library, including anything you’ve already installed on the console, becomes something you can carry into another room or curl up with on the sofa without a television in sight. There’s no need to buy anything twice or wait for a separate handheld version of a game you already own.
Battery life holds up its end too, with around 6 to 7 hours of continuous play on a single charge, which is enough for a long evening session before you need to think about the cable again.
For anyone who already owns a PS5 and regularly finds themselves fighting for the main screen, the Portal at this price solves a genuinely specific problem rather than promising to be everything to everyone.
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