STATION TO STATION: PlayStation Portal

Not quite the Nintendo Switch rival we were hoping for, but the PlayStation Portal can still be a perfect match for a PlayStation 5

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£199.99 playstation.com

The PlayStation Portal Remote Player, to use its full name, is a portable games machine with its own screen and wrapped in a controller - much like a Switch or many of the other portable consoles, but it's also quite different. It doesn't technically run games, for starters.

Instead, it uses a PlayStation 5's existing Remote Play functionality to stream games over a home or external wireless connection, using your PS5 as the host and the Portal as a receiver.

The Portal only has an LCD touchscreen, but it's highly impressive nonetheless. Being eight inches means it is beefy and bold enough to make a gameplay session feel more tangible, and it has a decent viewing angle to boot.