Sony will not have satisfied some people’s dreams of having a kind of portable PS4. However, this console has indeed just seen the light of day, you will not believe it.
If Nintendo has been able to maintain its position in the portable console market, this is not the case for Sony. Since the PS Vitastill no new nomadic machines from him. However, a “ PS4 Portable » capable of running home console games is indeed a feasible project. We now have proof of this and it’s truly astonishing.
The PS4 Portable you dreamed of without knowing it
At the start of the week, an Internet user shared a surprising creation on the social network Reddit. After months of work, design and redesign, he managed to design a real homemade PS4 Portable. In his 30-second video, we see him holding in his hands, on his work surface, a nomadic, compact and functional machine, capable of running the games of the PlayStation 4 natively, without emulation.
Modder wewillmakeitnow explains how he managed to accomplish this marvel. The main challenge was to reduce the size of a home console until reaching a portable format, while still managing to obtain a “ better energy and thermal efficiency “. To do this, he redesigned the internal structure of a traditional PlayStation 4 in order to fit the hardware in a condensed space. In particular, he cut out the motherboard of a PS4 Slim in order to reduce its size.
In more detail, this PS4 Portable is equipped with a 7-inch OLED screen for a resolution in 1080p. It is therefore a little larger than that of a Switch and slightly smaller than that of the Switch 2. It is also closer to the Nintendo console than one might believe. Indeed, like it, this DIY machine can be connected to a television via son port USB.
In terms of performance, the wewillmakeitnow PS4 Portable manages to run various games smoothly. In particular, we can see that God of War Ragnarök seems to work without a hitch. Of course, this has a cost and it is energy. Operating on battery, the portable console can be in operation between 1h30 and 3h. A great feat therefore, for this amateur project which, unfortunately, is not intended to be commercialized.
Source : wewillmakeitnow sur Reddit.
