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[ChiefDada]

PlayStation Portal Sales Will be Tracked as a Console - Insider Gaming

It's been revealed that Sony has requested that the PlayStation Portal sales will be tracked as a console rather than an accessory.

insider-gaming.com

According to Piscatella, the request was made by Sony themselves and although the tweet is now deleted, a Resetera user managed to snag a screenshot.

It’s currently unclear if the now-deleted tweet is due to misinformation, or if Piscatella wasn’t allowed to reveal the information.

Officially, the $199.99 handheld by PlayStation is described as, ” the perfect device for gamers in households where they might need to share their living room TV or simply want to play PS5 games in another room of the house. PlayStation Portal will connect remotely to your PS5 over Wi-Fi, so you’ll be able to swiftly jump from playing on your PS5 to your PlayStation Portal.”

Very weird.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

 

[Fake]

Arrogant Sony is back?

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

 

[Mr Hyde]

Going to be a bloodbath in the sales threads going forward.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Like a separate one or as PS5?

 

[Zones]

Arrogant Sony is back?

Sony:

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Well Spain already had units sold in the hardware section.
People keep describing this thing like you have to be inside your house.
This misinformation is tricking even people keeping up with gaming news, let alone the general public.

 

[vivftp]

It's not especially weird. Sony are looking into adding cloud streaming support for the Portal. While that means it won't have any dedicated games built for it like a normal console or even a platform/accessory like PSVR2, that would mean it would be a standalone device that people can buy and access games without the need for purchasing a PS5. It'd exist in some sort of hybrid category where it's an accessory and a standalone device.

We know that things like PSVR2 are being tracked, so looks like Sony wants to lump the Portal into a similar hybrid category

 

[DenchDeckard]

But someone kept saying its just a screen accessory....what is it?

I guess cloud streaming is coming without the ps5? Pretty neat

 

[Perrott]

And they banned the poor bastard over at Era who did a thread on Spain's weekly sales charts for "trolling" after he simply shared the numbers, which showed that PS Portal had sold more units than the Xbox Series consoles lol

 

[Killjoy-NL]

But someone kept saying its just a screen accessory....what is it?

I guess cloud streaming is coming without the ps5? Pretty neat

It literally is a screen accessory.

Most likely they just want it to be reported as hardware to show everybody even Portal is outselling Series S and X combined.

PR-wise, it's genius.
It gets people talking, while at the same time showing how irrelevant Xbox has become, despite MS acquiring Bethesda and Activision/Blizzard.

 

[Thirty7ven]

Have a feeling that if it continues to sell well Sony will put cloud streaming on it.

 

[Bernoulli]

Tracked as a hardware platform not an accessory
Who said console

 

[nial]

Arrogant Sony is back?

That just means they aren't afraid of revealing its sales numbers.

 

[vivftp]

Most likely they just want it to be reported as hardware to show everybody even Portal is outselling Series S and X combined.

PR-wise, it's genius.
It gets people talking, while at the same time showing how irrelevant Xbox has become, despite MS acquiring Bethesda and Activision/Blizzard.

... what even is this? Companies do not not operate like drooling console warriors.

 

[graywolf323]

is PSVR2 tracked as a hardware platform or as an accessory?

 

[Crayon]

... what even is this? Companies do not not operate like drooling console warriors.

We"ve all lived with 7 years of starting off a generation with a price and performance (and messaging) disadvantage to PS4 with Xbox One. I have to admit this morning when I woke up knowing the PS5 reveal was today that the stress level was higher than normal.

- Shigeru Miyamoto

 

[rodrigolfp]

So Nintendo sold 2 consoles with the Wii U. ~27 millions sold then. More than OG Xbox.

Tracked as a hardware platform not an accessory

True. But then what is a platform?

 

[Davevil]

is PSVR2 tracked as a hardware platform or as an accessory?

like failure

 

[nosoynadie22]

Portal is possibly the next step for PS cloud gaming. Sony just doesn't want to say anything until it's a reality.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

... what even is this? Companies do not not operate like drooling console warriors.

No, companies take advantage of momentum to boost demand, so they can sell their products.

 

[M.W.]

Track it as a piece of shit instead.

 

[baphomet]

Well Spain already had units sold in the hardware section.
People keep describing this thing like you have to be inside your house.
This misinformation is tricking even people keeping up with gaming news, let alone the general public.

For it to be even somewhat playable in any real sense, yes, you have to be on the same network as the console.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

 

[FrankWza]

Track it as a piece of shit instead.

 

[coffinbirth]

Tracked as a hardware platform not an accessory
Who said console

It's a hardware platform that only plays console games...and by definition, a computerized device that displays and plays video games, it's a console.

 

[Fake]

That just means they aren't afraid of revealing its sales numbers.

They can reveal the numbers and not be classified as a console, do you know that, right?

 

[Hudo]

The thing is that investors are so fucking retarded that they won't notice whatsoever.

 

[jm89]

Interesting manufacturers can make requests that actually get honoured by circana/npd.

Wonder what things MS requested circana/npd to do.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

For it to be even somewhat playable in any real sense, yes, you have to be on the same network as the console.

I’ve used remote play with my cell phone 5G with very few issues. So that’s not true.

 

[Codes 208]

It's a hardware platform that only plays console games...and by definition, a computerized device that displays and plays video games, it's a console.

Not natively though, its streams the games from a source console to act strictly as a secondary screen.

Its textbook example of a peripheral-based accessory. Otherwise the wii u gamepad should also be considered a console

 

[Mr.Phoenix]

Have a feeling that if it continues to sell well Sony will put cloud streaming on it.

I Believe cloud streaming was always what it was made for. And if this story is true, would explain why Sony insists on it being called its own platform.

I expect we soon see some sort of cloud streaming PS+ addition to one of the tiers, and with the PSP, you won't even need a PS5. At least for games that are in the stream library.

 

[Tommi84]

Maybe they want to see when they'll be able to surpass Xbox Series S/X sales with Portal

 

[ChiefDada]

Interesting manufacturers can make requests that actually get honoured by circana/npd.

Wonder what things MS requested circana/npd to do.

Indeed. I assume Sony would have needed to provide solid reasoning for Circana to go along with this. Reasoning that is not yet ready to be released to the public, hence the deleted tweet.

 

[baphomet]

I’ve used remote play with my cell phone 5G with very few issues. So that’s not true.

Then you have a much lower threshold for what you consider playable.

Even on the same network games that require fast and accurate inputs aren't playable.

 

[Ansphn]

They did this to embarrass Xbox when they have 2 "Consoles" outselling Xbox consoles.

 

[Physiognomonics]

Marketing strategy. It's free PR.

 

[Bernoulli]

Interesting manufacturers can make requests that actually get honoured by circana/npd.

Wonder what things MS requested circana/npd to do.

Microsoft asked to count S and X the same don't show %

 

[Woopah]

Microsoft asked to count S and X the same don't show %

Microsoft wouldn't need to ask for that. Circana doesn't reveal % splits for any platform.

 

[nial]

They can reveal the numbers and not be classified as a console, do you know that, right?

For the US in a monthly basis? You might as well let NPD do it for you.

 

[Fake]

For the US in a monthly basis? You might as well let NPD do it for you.

per Sony's Request

 

[jroc74]

Welp....

 

[nial]

Fake Then change "let" to "ask". The purpose is the same.
I can't reply to that post of yours for whatever reason, huh.

 

[BrunoCoel]

So sales threads over at REEEEE will be forbidden.

 

[Gojiira]

Why is this a surprise?
If this does well then it signals that all digital may indeed be truly viable for next gen, or even a hybrid console like the Switch, who knows.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

I guess it is their way trying to sell their stakeholders that they are also in a handheld market.

Though interesting that PSVR2 sales were not tracked.

 

[Raonak]

They tracked it just to make fun of xbox.

Jimbo is a savage!

 

[DForce]

I guess this just means that they plan on using this as a PS+ cloud device In the future. I think it was smart to release it as an accessory and then allow cloud play later on.

 

[shaddam]

The resetera banhammer is happy