Did anyone buy the PlayStation Portal? Apparently so, with almost two million copies sold to date
- 3% of PS5 owners have a PlayStation Portal
- This amounts to approximately 2 million copies sold
- The streaming handheld is used most at night
The PlayStation Portal was initially quite difficult to find when it launched in November 2023, with stock repeatedly selling out at most retailers. This might indicate that it was quite popular, but if you’re wondering what the actual sales figures of the remote-play accessory looked like, we now have a rough estimate.
According to data from market research firm Circana, 3% of PS5 owners have started using the PlayStation Portal by the end of 2024. This isn’t a huge amount, but we do know that the PS5 has sold 65.5 million units worldwide. . 3% of this figure equates to 1.965 million PlayStation Portal owners, indicating that it has been quite successful overall, despite some concerns that it would be too niche to have much impact.
In an interview with the Game file newsletter, Sony even provided some interesting statistics about PlayStation Portal usage. The most popular time to pick up the device is around 9:00 PM, which is an hour later than PS5’s peak usage time of 8:00 PM.
According to Sony Interactive Entertainment’s vice president of product management, Hirmoi Wakai, “this could suggest scenarios where users play on the console first and later switch to PS Portal to play in another room (…) while their family watches the TV used. .”
If you need a quick refresher, the PlayStation Portal is a handheld for remote play that requires a PS5.
With what are essentially two sides of a DualSense wireless controller and an 8-inch LCD screen, it streams games from your console over an internet connection. While it can work on the go, we’ve found it to be most reliable around the home when you use it almost as a second screen.
While a lot of functionality is still dependent on the PS5, Sony recently introduced a Cloud Game Streaming Beta, allowing PlayStation Plus Premium members to play directly from the cloud for the first time. It hasn’t been fully rolled out yet, but the final release of this feature would further improve the usability of the accessory and potentially increase its sales figure even further.