A new leak is claiming that Sony is putting massive power into the upcoming PlayStation 6 handheld.
The latest claim says that the PS6 portable gaming console will pack a huge performance that is capable of playing AAA-rated titles with ease and is adept for the modern standards.
PlayStation 6 Handheld Leak
In a post on gaming forum NeoGAF, prominent industry insider KeplerL2 stated that the PlayStation 6's long-rumored handheld model will outperform the Xbox Series S.
This suggests that the portable iteration of Sony's next hardware generation will host a GPU that massively outpaces the Series S in terms of ray tracing and path tracing.
KeplerL2 also claims that the handheld's updated version of PSSR, which allows PlayStation hardware to upscale its graphical performance, will be better than NVIDIA's current market-leading DLSS 4.5 technology.
The leak also claims that Sony is building a capable handheld device with massive specs. This, alongside other leaks, says that the new "PlayStation Portable," as KeplerL2 called it, will feature a 3nm chipset that combines AMD's RDNA 5 graphics, Zen 6 CPU cores, and a monster LPDDR5X RAM with a 24GB capacity.
On the power side, the leak says that it has a target of around 15W, with Sony focusing more on efficiency than performance unlike the first ASUS ROG Ally.
New PlayStation Portable to Trump PS Portal
The new PlayStation Portable under the PS6 series is set to "trump" the PlayStation Portal, the device that was initially meant as a streaming handheld but was then transformed by Sony into a full-fledged handheld gaming console.
According to reports, the new PS6 handheld will feature USB-C video input, expandable storage, backward compatibility with PS4 and PS5 games, and touchscreen features.
There were also claims saying that Sony is now telling developers to sunset some PlayStation 4 features this spring. They are also reportedly advising studios to get ready to adopt cross-gen software dev kits to access the latest online services to make it seamlessly accessible across console generations.
According to reports, this is speculated to be hints that the next generation of the PlayStation is coming, alongside the new and modern PSP.
It still remains unconfirmed when they will arrive as Sony has not confirmed anything as of press time.
