Sony is essentially doing everything but actually releasing a full-featured new PlayStation handheld. While the brand has updated its old PlayStation Portal to make it a solid system for streaming, the next step is to just add enough memory to make it potentially capable of playing some games natively. Or—more likely—Sony has something completely different in store.

Recent Wi-Fi certification documents revealed Sony has been hard at work on two separate new “peripherial/console” devices, one of which we guessed at the time was an updated Portal. Of course, this new version of the PlayStation Portal is not something you can easily buy in the U.S. Sony calls it the PlayStation Portal Player, and it’s a Japan-exclusive release, for now. You also won’t be able to change the system language to anything but Japanese, either. The big difference between this region-locked edition and the current, white model is that it includes internal storage.

How much storage are we talking? Sony isn’t saying. Instead, the company’s senior product manager Takuro Fushimi writes (read via machine translation), “Furthermore, with an eye towards future functionality, the new model includes additional internal storage. We will announce details about this feature as soon as they are finalized.”

We can speculate about what sorts of features might require internal storage, but based on price alone (and the memory pricing apocalypse that is ravaging tech across gaming), we don’t suspect it’s packing a ton of memory. Teardowns of the original PlayStation Portal handheld revealed it did pack a slim amount of LPPDR4X memory alongside an ARM-based Qualcomm SG4150P chip.

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