$200 to play a console game on a different screen only within the same network is insane. You could spend $100 more and get a full blown handheld console. This is fucking stupid, Sony.
You could likely get it to work outside of your network using a VPN, maybe.
What are you buying for $300? Steam deck is about as cheap as you can get and that’s for $360. It’s also heavier, smaller screen, has a lower quality screen, and will run out of battery quicker.
So if you don’t do pc gaming, why on earth would you want to spend closer to double the price?
You know why you think it’s a stupid product? You either live alone or you still live with mom and dad and have a ps5 in your bedroom. This product isn’t for you, and you’re an idiot for thinking if it’s not something little ol you would want, than no one else must have a use for it, either.
This feels like too much emotion for the subject matter.
Edit: removed an errant “a” that made the sentence read as if Mario wrote it.
Ironically, it’d make more sense if you lived with mom and dad, you play ps5 while they watch whatever they watch all in the same room
Intelligence check: Critical fail. A switch is $220 used and can be played on the couch and also on someone else’s couch. Nice projection about living with mom and dad, it cracks me up when people accuse strangers on the internet of things. Proud homeowner of 6 years here, dipshit. Remember the crowd you’re berating on Lemmy, we tend to skew older than those on other cesspits you likely frequent
Ah. So you don’t deny you live alone. Just deny living with mom and dad. My point still stands then .
You realize this is a good product if you live with your parents? You don’t need to hog the TV. Living alone and buying this bullshit, now that’s a stupid decision.
That depends on if the ps5 is in your bedroom and not the family room. My kids system is just in his room, so he’d have little use for this.
Oh I don’t know maybe you want to actually game portable and not just enjoy fake portability?
Maybe you just want to play your ps5 games next to your spouse while they watch TV.
That can be done easily and cheaply, with a smartphone and a telescopic controller for example.
So a smaller screen and to get a good controller that holds a phone, they’re $100, or you can get a crap controller for $50 or less.
Then are you going to be using you current phone that will have your gaming screwed up by calls and text messages? Or your old phone that you have to leave plugged in to use because the battery is shot? Also, how are you enjoying your audio lag because your phone doesn’t have a headphone jack?
Well, it’s still easier and cheaper 🙂
Then are you going to be using you current phone that will have your gaming screwed up by calls and text messages?
This is incredibly easy to solve, you don’t even need hacks.
Gaming on smartphones and emulation on Android exists though.
Or your old phone that you have to leave plugged in to use because the battery is shot?
To be fair that is not that bad, I recently did it with an iPhone 6s to play some old iOS games, gladly the device still holds some hours of gaming.
Also IDK what you mean by the audio thingy, but my phone has a jack port.
Most phones released in the 0ast 5 years have no audio jack, you skipped over answering about the controller. You can’t really play ps5 games with touch controls, and you skipped over how incredibly small your iPhone 6s screen is. All olthat you describe would make for terrible gaming.
Sony is just so bad at this whole portable gaming thing, aren’t they?
Classic case of design by committee.
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Best handheld of all time IMHO
Not only does the functionality seem almost completely unnecessary except for a limited use case here and there, but this thing is truly ugly. Who designed this travesty? How would you even store this bumpy hunk of plastic?
Sony used to have some of the most elegant and clean hardware aesthetics. Their designs were genuinely beautiful, simple, and practical. They used to ooze premium luxury. Now we get a screen with a sawed off controller stuck to the sides? Disappointing.
You know what? I take it back. The PS5 is shaped like a modem from 1999, it deserves this ugly step-cousin.
But it does look like more comfortable to hold than psvita. My hands hurt if I play my vita without a grip, which essentially turns the vita into a boomerang.
I have a PS5 and I just do remote play to my Android tablet with the ps controller connected via Bluetooth and for most games it’s acceptable; there is a little latency so it wouldn’t be good enough for fps games however. I wouldn’t buy this product but if the latency is improved I could see several of my friends getting one of these.
I refused to buy a PS5 because of how ugly it is. My friends got one, but I chose an XB1X because of how much better it goes with my house.
you chose a gaming platform because of how it looks?
we are not the same
As an owner of 2 Vita’s that didn’t use this feature on PS3, PS4, zero chance I’d buy this to do it on PS5.
Is this a batarang?
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This thing is terrible, who the fuck is buying shit like this? What a waste of electronic materials. They could’ve made a true handheld with the power of the steam deck that could run PS5 games at lower resolutions, but fuck no! Let’s make some bullshit abomination of a Vita successor and give anyone who loves portable gaming the middle finger, especially since you can’t use Bluetooth headphones. Fuck you Sony.
Seems like it should’ve just been a thing you can connect your phone in the middle and it gives you the controls and a battery to remote play
Isn’t that what PS Remote Play is for? Well I guess you can’t just switch on the fly with that… But there’s no reason it couldn’t be made to 🤷🏻♂️
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It doesn’t do any kind of cloud streaming like Nvidia’s Geforce Now or Sony’s own PlayStation Plus Premium subscription, and it can’t run anything locally (not even YouTube or Netflix).
The Portal is purpose-built to use a singular feature Sony first debuted with the PS3 and PSP back in 2006 that’s also widely available on other devices you may already own, making me wonder: why does this exist?
Compared to a Switch with standard Joy-Con controllers, the tradeoff in weight is made up for by its large grips that are comfier to use for extended play sessions.
I’ve initially played a handful of hours with various PS5 games (Resident Evil 4, Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon, and Astro’s Playroom, to name a few) in my limited time with the PlayStation Portal so far.
At various points in the last two years, I’ve tinkered with using Remote Play to stream games from my PlayStation 5 to my PS4, my PC, various Android devices, an iPhone, an iPad Pro, and even a Steam Deck using open-source software Chiaki.
My first impression is that this device is primarily for PlayStation diehards who want a simple, dedicated tool for streaming games around their homes.
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What’s the point in this thing if it’s not an actual handheld console? What does it do that a playstation controller + smartphone/tablet can’t do?
Way better control experience, almost 2x the screen space, separate battery, and like a 5th the cost of a flagship smartphone.
Not for everyone, but still neat. This product makes me wonder if theh have other things in the works. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is something 3 years from now that releases where we say “this is like if the Portal was good”.
Yeah I didn’t understand why I’d do this instead of just using my PC with a controller. Wifi streaming sucks, I’m not paying $200 for it
Not drain my cell battery or get interrupted from a call or text, have a much bigger screen than a phone, save you from trying to balance a tablet around on a bed or chair or recliner…
Those are incredibly small problems that are easily solved without having to spend $200
How my console boys feelin? Where your games at?
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This thing is gonna flop hard.
Portal’s not so bad if you’re happy with just your PlayStation library and simply want something for your bedside stand.
I currently use a retroid pocket 3+ for almost only that purpose, and let me tell you, an 8 inch, 1080p screen + a full dualsense in my hands at night for just $200 seems like a really nice upgrade even if it means leaving my emulators on a different device.
(Too bad for Sony I’ll personally be spending a lot more to have a Steam Deck OLED though) (teehee)
I have a Steam Deck and I don’t even own a PS5, so I’m probably way outside of the market for the Portal…
But I’m really finding it hard imagine this device finding a broad audience, since even in a hypothetical best case we’re talking about a subset of a subset of PS5 owners. From what I understand the new PSVR sold pretty badly despite being a pretty solid piece of VR hardware, this feels like a very niche and underwhelming piece of hardware and so I really can’t imagine it performing any better.
Someone will buy a PS Portal, and hopefully they like it, but when the smoke clears I don’t see it being a big hit.
The Steam Deck OLED on the other hand, I suspect will sell out fast. It seems like there is a pretty big chunk of people who were interested in the first gen Steam Deck but opted for the wait and see approach, and I can imagine a lot of those people jumping on the Steam Deck OLED now that they know the device has lasting power. Personally I probably can’t justify the cost of upgrading from the LCD model right now, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to…
Tv with the ps5 is downstairs, wife wants me to hang out and not just watch me play games, I want to game. I grab the portal and sit on the couch next to wife while she watches tv. We all win.
It’s not useless. But it’s not useful for a lot of people.
Huh, just like anything else on the market….
The question then is: is it useful for enough people?
