Sony has officially confirmed one major aspect of the ongoing PlayStation handheld rumors, lending credence to those reports. Back in April and then in June, two separate insiders claimed that the upcoming PS6 family handheld will be able to run PS5 games via a “low power, lower bandwidth” mode of sorts. Well, today, Sony confirmed that this mode is indeed coming.
Rumored PlayStation handheld will launch alongside PS6
In April, known AMD leaker Kepler L2 said that the handheld’s performance is expected to be somewhere between an Xbox Series S and PS5, and it’ll be able to run current-gen games on lower resolutions and frame rates due to lower memory bandwidth.
Last month, another known leaker — who goes as Moore’s Law Is Dead (MLID) on YouTube — claimed that PS5 and PS5 Pro will be getting a “low power mode” that would enable the consoles to draw less power and lower energy consumption while running games. MLID speculated that this mode is a precursor to the rumored handheld.
This morning, Sony confirmed the new Power Saver setting, which will allow supported PS5 games to scale back performance and reduce the console’s power consumption. We initially missed the connection, but fans were quick to point out that this new setting is in fact the rumored mode that both Kepler and MLID were talking about.
At this point, the new stand-alone handheld is all but confirmed.
