Sony Is Preparing a Black PlayStation Portal with More Storage, for Japan Only for Now

Sony has announced a new version of the PlayStation Portal in Midnight Black. It will launch in Japan on December 10 for 39,980 yen, or approximately $250. Availability in other regions has not yet been confirmed. As with the recently announced black PS5 console, this will be a special model exclusive to Japan.

More notable than the color itself, however, is the confirmed increase in internal storage. Dataminers estimate that the current PlayStation Portal has around 6 GB of internal memory. Since the device was originally designed exclusively to stream games from a PS5 console, players cannot access it directly. It is used primarily by the device’s modified Android operating system.

Sony has yet to say how much the capacity will increase or what specific features the additional memory will enable. In its official announcement, however, the company said it is adding it with the device’s future features in mind. It plans to share more details later, once they are finalized.

The other specs remain unchanged. PlayStation Portal features an eight-inch LCD display with a 1080p resolution and a 60 Hz refresh rate, 3D audio, haptic feedback, and adaptive triggers—features carried over from the DualSense controller. Given that its price is the same as the current model’s and memory component costs are rising, a significant increase in capacity does not seem likely for now.

Sony is also changing the device’s name. Instead of the current PlayStation Portal Remote Player, it will simply be called the PlayStation Portal Player. The original name referred to its main function when it launched in November 2023: remote play from a user’s own PS5 console.

Two years later, however, Sony expanded the device’s capabilities to include streaming games directly from its cloud servers. This feature is available to PlayStation Plus Premium subscribers, meaning Portal is no longer limited to Remote Play.

It is not yet clear whether the new black version with more storage will also reach Western markets. Sony has confirmed only a Japanese release so far.

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