Play Solana to ship handheld gaming device in October

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On Oct. 6, Play Solana volition vessel its archetypal handheld gaming console called the PSG1, which features a built-in hardware crypto wallet.

Play Solana to vessel handheld gaming instrumentality successful October

The Solana ecosystem is taking a leap into hardware with the forthcoming motorboat of its archetypal handheld gaming console.

Play Solana, a task dedicated to gathering a Web3 gaming instrumentality connected the Solana blockchain, announced that it volition commencement shipping its Play Solana Gen 1 (PSG1) instrumentality connected Oct. 6.

The instrumentality comes with gaming-ready specs, including an octa-core ARM processor, 8 gigabytes of RAM, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity and a interaction LCD display. It besides includes a built-in hardware wallet and fingerprint authentication, allowing users to store crypto assets portion playing games.

It besides launched a constricted non-fungible token (NFT) postulation that allows a radical of 2,000 holders to person aboriginal entree and different ecosystem perks.

Solana dives deeper into carnal products

The motorboat comes arsenic the Solana ecosystem continues to propulsion deeper into consumer-facing products, pursuing earlier experiments specified arsenic the Saga smartphone.

In 2022, Solana Mobile, a subsidiary of Solana Labs, introduced Saga, an Android-based, blockchain-focused smartphone.

It gave users entree to autochthonal Web3 tools similar a Seed Vault, the Solana Mobile Stack and a decentralized applications (DApp) store tailored for Solana ecosystem participants.

The Saga instauration triggered mixed reactions from assemblage members, but yet saw a palmy motorboat successful 2023, causing a frenzy among users.

In 2023, the merchandise fetched up to $5,000 connected eBay arsenic the telephone came with a escaped airdrop of the BONK memecoin. The telephone had an archetypal $599 terms tag connected the Solana Mobile website.

In 2024, Solana Mobile unveiled a second-generation mobile phone, saying it would not conscionable beryllium a “memecoin phone.”

In 2025, the telephone had 150,000 pre-orders, with gross estimated to beryllium astatine $67.5 million. On Aug. 5, Solana Mobile said it started shipping the Seeker phone successful implicit 50 countries.

Web3 gets handheld gaming devices

Apart from Play Solana’s PSG1, blockchain web Sui besides dived into carnal Web3 gaming devices.

In 2024, Sui blockchain creator Mysten Labs said it would present SuiPlay0X1, a handheld gaming instrumentality integrated to the Sui web successful the archetypal fractional of 2025.