Expect PS Portal's Glacial Rollout of New Features to Continue | Push Square

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The PlayStation Portal is perhaps Sony's most unlikely success in recent memory. Since one joined the family, we can certainly attest to spending even more time playing games. A year after launch, the PS Portal received a game-changing cloud streaming update, and Sony says that loyal users should expect more surprises to come in the future.

In an expansive interview with Stephen Totilo's Game File (thanks, PSLS), Sony's VP of product management, Hiromi Wakai, said additional features will be coming, just slowly, to deliver the best possible experience: «PS Portal was a new type of product for us, so we wanted to be extra careful to ensure our users get the best possible user experience. We want to continue that approach with PS Portal, and make incremental steps based on community reception.»

Elsewhere in the interview, Wakai said that PS Portal owners were deeply engaged and inclined to spend more time gaming overall, a feedback loop the company is surely taking note of for future console generations.

Play has no limits

If you did pick up a PS Portal, do you feel like your total game time has gone up noticeably? What do you think of the Portal's new Cloud Streaming feature, and what are you hoping to see in the future? Let us know in the comments section below.

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With six years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

I'm pretty sure the recent «fix» for the too loud base volume was Sony either realizing they sold enough of those proprietary earbuds or Sony realizing they weren't going to sell enough of those proprietary earbuds. The lowest volume was way too loud.
Still, love it. I just want to play PS3 games on it, please.

If they let me stream the PS3