An nameless reader shares a report: Sony’s new PlayStation Portal has been hacked by Google engineers to run emulated video games domestically. The $199.99 handheld debuted in November however was restricted to simply streaming video games from a PS5 console and never even titles from Sony’s cloud gaming service. Now, two Google engineers have managed to get the PPSSPP emulator working natively on the PlayStation Portal, permitting a Grand Theft Auto PSP model to run on the Portal with out Wi-Fi streaming required. “After greater than a month of arduous work, PPSSPP is working natively on PlayStation Portal. Sure, we hacked it,” says Andy Nguyen in a publish on X. Nguyen additionally confirms that the exploit is “all software program primarily based,” so it does not require any {hardware} modifications like extra chips or soldering. Solely a photograph of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty Metropolis Tales working on the PlayStation Portal has been launched to this point, however Nguyen might launch some movies to display the exploit on the weekend.