Whereas the PlayStation Showcase was largely centered round video games, Sony did have a pair {hardware} bulletins, too. Certainly one of these bulletins was a set of earbuds, and the opposite was a streaming-only machine codenamed Challenge Q.
The PlayStation Showcase 2023 occasion had about an hour of bulletins and divulges. It may well all be quite a bit to…
What’s Challenge Q?
Challenge Q is a handheld that may solely stream titles from a PlayStation 5 by distant play or Wi-Fi and may’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 much like. It additionally has an 8-inch HD display, however it 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 gained’t be attainable to stream PlayStation Plus Premium titles.
There’s no phrase on how a lot it would price or when it’s popping out. Nevertheless, extra info can be made obtainable someday sooner or later.
This machine was rumored again in April, as insider Tom Henderson famous that Sony was making a streaming machine codenamed Q Lite. It was described as a handheld that regarded like a DualSense with an 8-inch display within the center, which ended up being fairly correct. The report additionally stated it performed video games in as much as 1080p, however Sony didn’t verify these sorts of specs.
