What is the target audience for this product? I don’t expect it can be used reasonably when travelling as it needs internet to work. Is it simply for when the TV is taken up by somebody else who really doesn’t want to watch their movies or tv series on a laptop like children perhaps?
Mostly yes, it’s for people who share a tv with others and don’t want to monopolize the TV just because the playstation is connected to it.
Yesterday they probably just played nintendo switch, now they can also play playstation in those situations.
After sitting 8+ hours a day in front of a laptop, I hate sitting more, even if it’s on a couch in front of the TV. Portal gives me the flexibility to game from whichever room I want, lying on my back, or however I feel like. Truly a needless luxury product, but this allows me to turn 30 mins phone/tablet doomscrolling on my back into 30 mins of progress in one of the games I barely have time to play. Well worth the price for me (so far), and I don’t even have kids, where my freetime would be even more scarce and valuable.
Don’t understand too. I’m just using my iPhone pro max/MacBook Pro + PlayStation remote play + AirPods Pro and it works perfectly.
I grabbed one yesterday, and love it so far. Seems strange to stream games from my PS5 a few meters away, but works very well in practice.
Have you ever streamed games from your PS5 prior to this? I’ve streamed on my PC and Phone, I honestly don’t see a reason to get a dedicated streaming device when my other stuff already does it.
Yes, tried it a few times:
-A few years ago I tried with I think Far Cry 5 on an iPad, but the delay made it barely playable (this experience made me disregard this option for years)
-Before I bought my Portal, I tried it again on the same iPad (but on a better wifi I have now), and it worked great with FC5 and many other games. This convinced me to take a leap of faith and buy it
Why do I need a dedicated device? Of course I don’t. I just like the convenience of picking up and playing without setup (e.g. needing to pair with controller), and also like to have an integrated but comfortable grip (meaning not a separate controller, but also not the small and less comfi grips of Steam Deck or Backbone).
If the deck OLED hadn’t been announced, it’s very likely I would have bought one of these.
If I didn’t have my OG deck, I would probably just have gotten the OLED. I picked up the portal and I love it. 1080p and bigger screen from the OG deck and official controls that feel much better. I still love my deck and that will be my travel king, but for couch dad gaming the portal is fantastic.
Meh.
The lack of Bluetooth make this a no-go for me.
So I’ve tried many Bluetooth headsets with my phone using remote play and they all have significant delay making them unusable. I think that’s why they left it off. Even people who have been attaching Bluetooth receivers are having delay issues.
If Sony had included it and people experienced delay, the portal would have been reviewed more negatively. Even when Nintendo eventually added it, people have delay issues.
I will say if you are in home streaming and you have a USBC dongled headset for the PS5, you can leave the dongle in the PS5 and force the audio out to the headset.
