{"id":875857,"date":"2025-12-19T20:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/playstation-portal-public-wi-fi-update"},"modified":"2025-12-19T20:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:03:09","slug":"playstation-portal-finally-gets-major-feature-it-somehow-launched-without","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/playstation-portal-finally-gets-major-feature-it-somehow-launched-without\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation Portal finally gets major feature it somehow launched without"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/playstation-portal-finally-gets-major-feature-it-somehow-launched-without.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Sony&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/playstation-portal-price-launch-window\">$200 PlayStation Portal<\/a> has never been a device that fully made sense. The handheld is specifically designed so players can stream games from their PS5 consoles to it. It doesn&#8217;t function without a console, and only really helps you take your games to bed while leaving the TV off &#8211; or for someone else to watch something on it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/playstation-portal-price-launch-window\">As much of a limited use as that is<\/a>, PS Portal was even more limited by its own software than people initially realised. The big omission was the handheld&#8217;s lack of any ability to deal with public Wi-Fi networks, such as those found at hotels and cafes.<\/p>\n<p>PS Portal simply couldn&#8217;t work with the sign-in portals that require you to enter a room number and so on, so anyone who took it out of their home needed to connect it to a hotspot from their phone or laptop. This all changes today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/playstation-portal-public-wi-fi-update\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/playstation-portal-public-wi-fi-update\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s $200 PlayStation Portal has never been a device that fully made sense. The handheld is specifically designed so players can stream games from their PS5 consoles to it. It doesn&#8217;t function without a console, and only really helps you take your games to bed while leaving the TV off &#8211; or for someone else to watch something on it. As much of a limited use as that is, PS Portal was even more limited by its own software than people initially realised. The big omission was the handheld&#8217;s lack of any ability to deal with public Wi-Fi networks, such as those found at hotels and cafes. 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