PlayStation Broadcasts Streaming Handheld Mission Q

Whereas the PlayStation Showcase was largely centered round video games, Sony did have a pair {hardware} bulletins, too. One in all these bulletins was a set of earbuds, and the opposite was a streaming-only gadget codenamed Mission Q.

What’s Mission Q?

Mission Q is a handheld that may solely stream titles from a PlayStation 5 by distant play or Wi-Fi and might’t play video games natively. It has all the conventional PlayStation buttons, in addition to adaptive triggers and haptic suggestions identical to the DualSense, which it seems to be strikingly just like. It additionally has an 8-inch HD display, but it surely wasn’t clear what sort of display it’s. The trailer famous that video games should be put in on the PS5, which means that it received’t be doable to stream PlayStation Plus Premium titles.

There’s no phrase on how a lot it can price or when it’s popping out. Nonetheless, extra data shall be made out there someday sooner or later.

This gadget was rumored again in April, as insider Tom Henderson famous that Sony was making a streaming gadget codenamed Q Lite. It was described as a handheld that appeared like a DualSense with an 8-inch display within the center, which ended up being fairly correct. The report additionally mentioned it performed video games in as much as 1080p, however Sony didn’t verify these sorts of specs.