Tech experts Digital Foundry have compiled a fresh wave of rumours regarding PS6’s rumoured handheld option, which is looking more and more like a tangible upcoming product by the day.
Despite being potentially years away, the speculation comes courtesy of KeplerL2, a highly reliable AMD leaker who revealed many of the PS5 Pro’s details prior to it being officially announced by Sony.
While we’ll leave you to read the more detailed information on Eurogamer.net, PlayStation’s new handheld sounds like a next-gen version of the current round of PC handhelds, including the upcoming ROG Xbox Ally X.
Digital Foundry assumes that the device will be capable of running existing PS5 software at lower resolutions or frame rates, the former of which should look fine on a smaller 1080p screen. It’s likely it’ll also take advantage of Sony’s proprietary PSSR upscaling technology to smooth out image quality, much like DLSS is being leveraged by the Nintendo Switch 2.
There are rumours coming from many of the same sources that Sony is preparing a “reduced bandwidth” mode for the PS5 dev kit. The idea here is that software optimised for this tier would easily run on the handheld, but it would potentially create an additional layer of complication for devs.
