Awesome Mod Turns A PS4 Slim Into A Fully Functional OLED Handheld

With the handheld gaming scene taking thanks to hot products like the Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X, PlayStation fans have been yearning for one of their own. Sony delivered a half-hearted effort with the ever-evolving PlayStation Portable and is rumored to be introducing a full-fledged device alongside the PlayStation 6, but that’s years away. In the meantime, a mod project is showing what’s possible.

A user in the Handhelds subreddit by the name of wewillmakeitnow shared their personal effort to create a handheld PlayStation 4. The starting point for this mod is a PS4 slim because of its smaller motherboard, which was made even smaller after investigating what parts of the board could be cut away without losing any functionality.

This mod goes beyond just reducing the footprint, though. It's designed to be proper handheld and improves the power efficiency, optimizes the layout for ...