The hand-held gaming market has flourished to an nearly surprising diploma within the final a number of years, and although the Nintendo Swap has been primarily answerable for that, we’re starting to see indicators of others getting into (or re-entering) the area as properly. Valve has, after all, been making waves with the Steam Deck for some time now, whereas Microsoft can be confirmed to be within the early levels of growing a transportable Xbox. Now, it’s being reported that Sony is engaged on a brand new handheld as properly.

That’s as per a Bloomberg report, which claims that Sony is at the moment within the early levels of engaged on a transportable system that can be capable of natively run PS5 video games. The system is supposed to compete in opposition to the Nintendo Swap, or any potential handheld that Xbox releases down the road. Earlier this 12 months, studies claimed that Sony was engaged on a tool able to natively operating PS4 titles. Learn extra on that by right here.

As per the report, the hand-held will construct on the PlayStation Portal, however remains to be a number of years away from launch, and isn’t essentially assured to see the sunshine of day- which isn’t shocking, given how early in growth it clearly is.

There’s definitely going to be no scarcity of gaming handheld {hardware} releases within the coming years. Nintendo is ready to launch the Swap successor subsequent 12 months, whereas Valve can be planning on launching a Steam Deck 2 in some unspecified time in the future (although not within the close to future).