Bigger is Better
IGN's Seth Macy writes:
"I did not think for a second I was going to be impressed by the PlayStation Portal, Sony's small-screen Remote Play solution for the PS5. With Remote Play already working great on tablets and phones, and controller solutions like the Backbone designed specifically for playing console games remotely, the Portal seemed like a solution to a problem no one had. Why spend $200 on a single-purpose device when there are much cheaper solutions already available? And yet, after spending time with the PlayStation Portal, I gotta say… this thing rules. That's not to say I wouldn’t change anything about it. In fact, it has some missing features that make me scratch my head, but my initial skepticism has been replaced by enthusiasm.
8/10 "
The PlayStation Portal has been "exceeding supply for several months" in the US and doing better than it ever was expected to.
I'm laying on my bed with Eve on my Portal and my skama in tha air. 😶🌫️ Chilln. I have been playing it on my big tv though just cause I like to play the main story on there. I do side quests and collecting on my Portal.
Seems like industry advisors and analyst constantly underestimate or straight up talk from their back side
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I slipped a disc in my back a short while ago and I could barely move for 2 weeks. A spent a near fortnite on my back and the Portal was a god send
I was thinking about getting the Portal but my Logitech G-Cloud remote plays my PS5 games, Series X, retro games fine so will stick with that for now. Good to see the Portal doing well.
Game I would like to play on the Portal include: Star Ocean: Second Story R, Baldur's Gate 3, Humanity, and even classics like Wild Arms and the PSP games. This is gonna be great for RPGs
I'm very glad that Sony made the switch to treat physical and digital games as the same. Meaning you no longer have to uninstall one to install the other. And many of my games that I had installed via disc are now on PS+ in digital form so I have been activating the already installed data into digital mode so now I can play without the disc.
this is going to make playing through my backlog soooo much better.
Sounds super cool but I honestly can’t see myself using it enough to justify buying one.
Chiaki on the steam deck and Ally stream from the PS5 with excellent quality and these are much more versatile devices all around.
A glorified remote play device at $200 is a scam. At $100-$150 there is a much more attractive value prop
349$ Steam Deck can hurt PlayStation Portal sales... but you never have enough screens at home. Better to have both.