The PlayStation Portal has hit its lowest ever price for Black Friday, and it's impossible to ignore at this price and after its game-changing update

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The PlayStation Portal has hit its lowest ever price for Black Friday, and it's impossible to ignore at this price and after its game-changing update Features By Jake Green published 21 November 2025

Has the PS Portal reached its final form?

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I finally bit the bullet and picked up a PlayStation Portal earlier this year, and I’ve been really impressed by how well it fits into my daily gaming routine.

Now, I can chip away at my backlog of games on a handheld, and I likely wouldn’t have found the time to play games like Blue Prince and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 without it. Even so, I had always found the PS Portal a little tricky to recommend, given its reliance on streaming from a preferably nearby PS5 console. This has now all changed thanks to a firmware update that arrived earlier this month, unlocking cloud streaming, direct from your PlayStation library - and the arrival of the Black Friday PS5 deals.

I think the PlayStation Portal is finally the device of my dreams, allowing me to quickly load into the games in my PS Plus collection with ease. The PlayStation Portal has literally never been better, and thanks to some truly excellent Black Friday deals, it’s also never been cheaper.

On Amazon US, the PS Portal has been discounted down to just $179 (was $199.99) – the lowest price ever for the product. Things are similarly cheap in the UK, as EE is running a deal on the PS Portal, taking it down to just £175 (was £199), again, the cheapest it’s ever been.

Save US$20PlayStation Portal: was US$199 now US$179 at Amazon

This is a brilliant deal on the PS Portal from Amazon. It knocks off $20, taking the handheld down to its lowest ever price. You'll get access to cloud streaming if you're a PS Plus Premium subscriber. If not, you can still play any of your PS5 games with the Portal. I've found Death Stranding 2, Blue Prince, and Fortnite to be real highlights.Price Check: Walmart - $179 | GameStop - $179.99 | Target - $179.99 | PS Direct - $179.99

View DealSave £24PlayStation Portal: was £199 now £175 at EE

Things are similarly great in the UK for PS Portal Black Friday deals. You can get £24 off Sony's PS5 handheld accessory at EE. This is the lowest ever price in the UK. I strongly recommend the Portal, as it allows you to take any PS5 game on the go. Both the white and black colors are on sale, so take a look at both and see which one you like the most.Price Check: Amazon UK - £178 | Argos - £179.99 | PS Direct - £179.99 | Very - £178 | John Lewis - £179.99

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Thanks to this cloud streaming overhaul, you no longer have to have a PS5 at all to use the PlayStation Portal, and as long as you have PS Plus Premium, you’ll have a catalogue of games available to stream immediately.

While the $199.99 / £199.99 RRP did maybe seem a little high when the Portal launched, the device is now an absolute must-buy in my opinion. I think it’s very likely my favorite PS5 accessory, and it’s becoming one that I use more often than the console itself over time.

My daily driver

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I originally bought the PlayStation Portal so that I could play games in bed, lying down on the sofa, or while hanging out with my cat on the kitchen floor (it’s his favorite pastime, okay?). Over time, I started to favor the handheld over playing games on the big screen, mostly as my partner could then game alongside me on the sofa.

In terms of a gaming handheld, the PS Portal is the only one that’s felt good in my hands. The Nintendo Switch 2 makes my arms go numb, and I’m pretty sure I still have permanent wrist damage from my PS Vita. By essentially being a screen glued between two halves of a proper PS5 controller, the PS Portal is unrivaled in its form factor and in how long I can play before my arms start to feel a bit stiff.

Almost missed ya

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One of the best parts of owning a PlayStation Portal is that I’m gaming more, generally in shorter bursts. I’ve played a bunch of games this year that I simply wouldn’t have had time for otherwise. This includes nearly 40 hours of Blue Prince exclusively on the Portal, and I sometimes even load up Arc Raiders to go on simple resource-gathering runs when I have a spare 20 minutes or so.

As someone who covers games for a living, having a quick way to chip away at different games has been a lifesaver, and I’ve been surprised by how well even big blockbusters like Death Stranding 2 have run on the PS Portal.

Up in the cloud

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Sony released an update for the PlayStation Portal earlier this month, adding in cloud streaming for all PS Plus Premium members. Now, you don’t have to access your PS5 at all, as the cloud streaming has its own dedicated menu tab.

I’ve yet to test things extensively, but the other night I booted up my PS Plus catalogue and rapidly switched from title to title. I played the opening level of Time Splitters: Future Perfect before diving into Fortnite to work on some quests, all without switching my PS5 on at all.

It would seem I now have a huge library of games that I can access in seconds, all from the cloud streaming menu of the PlayStation Portal. Whereas I may have skipped dipping into classics like Jak & Daxter before, mostly because I couldn’t be bothered to download them, I can now just pick and choose whatever I want to play. So far, performance has been surprisingly close to the main streaming mode, and I’m surprised by how seamless everything is.

Because of the recent firmware updates to the PlayStation Portal, it’s now a very easy device to recommend to all PS5 users. In fact, it’s actually a very cheap way to play PS5 games without needing to buy a console, something that simply wasn’t the case just a few months ago.

When paired with the PS Portal’s current Black Friday prices, the new features really make the PS Portal a completely unrivaled piece of hardware. Sure, you could spend a few hundred more on a Steam Deck, or a few hundred more on a ROG Xbox Ally X, but why bother when the PS Portal exists as cheaply, and with as many bells and whistles as it does?

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Jake is currently working as Evergreen Editor at TechRadar Gaming. Hailing from the overcast shores of Brighton in the United Kingdom, Jake can be found covering everything from features to guides content around the latest game releases. As seen on NME.com, Eurogamer.net, and VG247.com, Jake specializes in breaking games down into approachable pieces for guides, and providing SEO advice to websites looking to expand their audiences.

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