They really should have included Bluetooth with it too 🤔

PS Backbone is better. Been using it for 2 years and love it. Confidently convenient!

It needs more features and support, if they added the ability to use the Portal as a controller with the screen working as a minimap or additional HUD elements from the game that would make it even better.

Am I the only one that has forgotten about the vita? I mean you could connect it to your PlayStation 4 and exactly what this PlayStation portable does. Pretty much do everything that this PlayStation portable does. Except the portable it’s only an accessory. You can’t play games separately on it like you could Vita. The PS Vita was way better than this portable thing that they wanna gaslight you and tell you was awesome. It was killed out way before it’s time and now we have this.

I enjoy this console especially being a father my kids take over the TV sometimes so this is pretty neat for me and I don't leave home often

You nailed it on this review keep it up bro

What was the game with the police car? I’m interested in the portal since I don’t have access to my tv due to family using it.

A tip, apparently if you use hotspot with a google phone, you can log in to wifi that way and pass it on to the portal.

This thing will be like the pstv neglected at first but once hacked it'll be a nice little device

My dude forgot we could remote play on our PS3's using our psp's too. I used to do that whenever I left a ps1 disc in my ps3 and I could remotely play it on my psp anywhere that had wifi 👍

I have no use for this thing - I live in a one bedroom apartment with my PS5 hooked up to one TV that's within like 10 steps of the entire place. But, I remember back in the day when my Playstation would be hooked up to the family TV, and I'd get kicked off as soon as my dad came home from work so he could chill and watch TV. I would've killed for something like this. I have to imagine smaller households that don't necessarily have the space/budget for multiple PS5s and TVs could really benefit from something like this. That's my roundabout way of saying: I'm guessing this is mostly designed for the Japanese market.

Sony is insane releasing this and thinking it is okay.

Imagine being able to play couch multiplayer games with this. One uses the ps5 itself and the other plays from the portal

I love using my portal, but I do wish they'd add cloud streaming to it since I do have a premium subscription. I see no reason why this couldn't do it.

I have one and I love it. How much is the dual sense edge ? $200 right . In this day and age that price isn’t bad. Backbone is way worse experience to me and yes I’m a dad with kids . Can play while my daughter at dance practice and while I don’t want to go to my dedicated room with my ps5. And play in the living room while they watch tv

any way to use it for sheet music? save sheet music on the PS5 and then open it with remote play?

If you able were to use ps cloud streaming it would make the portal more valuable

Man, I'd rather spend $50 more than what I'd spend on a PS5 to get a Steam Deck OLED. Sad thing is, the Deck has Remote Play if you have another PC _and_ you can still download games to it that you can play offline.

The only portal I'll be playing anytime soon has GlaDOS 😀

I have iuess with it keeps on lossing the internet any ideas to stop if freezing

I was interested in getting one till I realized I can remote play on my iPad.

Are you able to play the portal while the PlayStation 5 is in rest mode for some reason I cannot play it that way anymore my console and portal both are on at the same time now

I believe a new model of the PS Portal later on in 2024… the latency is not that great… i would say thats the mean reason with other better features as well.

Play Station Portal PSP?

Can you connect multiple PS5’s? Does it let you choose from what’s shared via remote play on your PSN?

Once streaming is available, itll be an ok device on the go. But even playstation streaming never works well either.

The were really lazy with this thing id have bheen better to make a newer version of the psvita with modern os and hardware with the option to add a sim card

If I can find it on sale ya for sure. However, not at $199.99. I have an iPad mini I could use, but wanna be able to lay down and hold it like my switch to enjoy it.

Should I buy it ? I can’t find it anywhere but I can buy it for resell for 300

Grandma is still rockin' 802.11n.

Too much lag and latency. I have a wired ps5, and I am 10 feet away. I don’t even want to bother trying outside of house, on a plane, or in a hotel. Thing is trash. Going to sell mine on eBay.

Maybe it’s for those people that only have one large TV in the house and someone is watching it, well you can still play your PS5 while the other half watches her soaps

Hard wire PS5 with a LAN cable. If you’re sharing Wi-Fi with Portal and PS5, there will be latency more often than not, especially playing away from home. I don’t find a need for the Portal as I use a Backbone + IPhone 15 Pro Max, I can PS Remote plus dozens of other features.

I love it !

NO BROWSER!!!!! SO NO ABILITY TO SIGN INTO WIFI THAT REQUIRES SO

Bluetooth is a must for almost all products that use the Internet. Wi-Fi 6 should’ve been put on the portal. There is no excuse for them not adding a web browser on the device. Yes there is many other ways a person can do remote play. To me it just looks like an over price controller with a screen on it and yet still feels empty. I feel that this will die down and disappear into the sunset the same way they handle the Vita. Handheld devices including this one seems like Sony weakness. If I’m gonna play games in my house, I might as well use my PlayStation five. The Nintendo switch on the other hand, gives me that option to do either or in one unit.

I saw someone buy this at target when buy super Mario bro wonder

I always laugh when people think they can actually play something on a some coffee shop or hotel wi-fi

Stick Drift will be a genuine product killer

Didn’t Nintendo try this already?

Spoiler: No

Remote play sucks on my phone, i dont think the portal would do it any better

Im glad i got mine for under msrp

I agree I would probably either just get a backbone for my phone or buy a steam deck. Either option is better depending on budget and use case

This seems like the amswer to the vita not being compatible with PS5.

If your WiFi signal is insane its a neat option to use your system but I'd rather have a stand alone new competitor for steam deck rog switch thats a true on the go experience. Without a rock solid WiFi signal and hubs boosters this things latency issues would annoy me

I feel like we all forget that the pulse edge wireless controller is $200 too and it’s just a controller. No one seems to complain so much about that. So I don’t find it bad at all. I’ll take the compromises that the Portal has as I am probably the market they made it for. I remote play with my iPhone and backbone already and have a good WiFi 6 mesh network with no issues. I just don’t want to isolate myself every time I want to play PS5. Remote Play on the PS4 Pro to my PS5 is terrible though. Good points in the video. No Bluetooth is wack. WiFi 5 is a choice for sure, it’s not using all that bandwidth but the extra network protocols of WiFi 6e would be good for stability. It’s a niche product to the masses for sure but it fits my use and fills that void for me.

Portal is $1000 in Barbados like how??????? And then wanna blame it on taxes smh

Yeah but you can’t even buy it!? There’s thousands on ebay though. Getting tired of them not putting some product in actual stores. Far away from bots. Sony doesn’t care because it’s already sold. Probably going to not buy it on principle at this point. I have a steam deck and a switch so I don’t really care that much.

Time to put this product in the list of playstation product not so great Adios (*￣▽￣)ノ~~

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The Portal is cool, but not what I wanted...

Am I the only one playing it 80 miles away and perfectly fine? 😅

The fact u can’t take it out is crazy

It's 2023 and Sony re-creates the Wii-U.... huh??

It’s very good

Why no Cloud gaming on the portal. It make no sense to me. This and the fact i can't connect my blutooth head phone and buds to this is insane. Big L Sony. Big missed opportunity.

If I were made the new boss of Sony's PlayStation division, one of the first things I'd do would be to make a PROPER PlayStation Vita successor, I'd even make a Blu Ray-based Super UMD for it and let users play their old PSP games and UMD Videos on it! I'd also make a new plug & play PlayStation which would be the same shape and size as the PSone but have the OG PlayStation color scheme, it would also include Dualshock controllers using the original connectors and 50 games built in! (Sorry the likes of Tomb Raider, MGS and Silent Hill are missing, I want such a unit to be rated no higher than PEGI 12/USK 12/ESRB T) Crash Bandicoot (I know Microsoft bought Activision but I want the mega monopoly that is Microsoft broken up!) Spyro The Dragon Crash Team Racing Crash Bash WipeOut 3 Need for Speed 1 Mickey's Wild Adventure Croc Croc 2 Lilo & Stitch: Trouble in Paradise Syphon Filter (US), Firebugs (European) Tetris Plus Rugrats: The Search for Reptar Rugrats in Paris Digimon World (with PAL Bug fixes for languages other than English, and a Korean language option transplanted from the Korean PC release) Digimon Rumble Arena Pac Man World Ms. Pac Man: Maze Madness Final Fantasy VIII (maybe the Chocobos could be raised using a PocketStation mobile app?) Street Fighter Alpha 3 (maybe the PocketStation minigame could be made playable via a PocketStation mobile app?) Jumping Flash! Jumping Flash! 2 Robbit Mon Dieu Ape Escape PaRappa The Rapper Um Jammer Lammy not sure of any others at this time

Can't wait to install linux on it. :)

I tried telling everyone that this was a garbage thing to get but nooo lots of people still wanted to get it because it was a Sony thing and thought it was going to be worth it

So… how is it any better than we thought? 😅 people are still better off using their phones for remote play lol

I really don't understand Sony, I assumed that it would bypass remote play altogether and connect directly to the PS5, similar to how the Wii U worked, the fact it's just a remote play accessory is next level stupid, it's a flawed system that is an object lesson in frustration if your playing action games or shooters and timing is important, I use Chiaki on my Steam Deck and admittedly for stuff like Slay the Spire, Inscyption, pretty much any turn based type of game it's ok but for everything else it's a toss of a coin on how it will perform, it will always lag or stutter at some point and if your connection isn't the best you can add graphical artefacts as well. There is a few tricks you can use to help but ultimately the system itself needs a major overhaul, personally adding a direct connection would be the best option. Add to all of that the proprietary wifi for the new earbuds and headset and it's a level of stupid that could lose an arse kicking competition to someone with no legs. I use Sony WF C-500's for my Steam Deck that connect over Bluetooth, they wont work on the portal, I suppose Sony are sticking to their guns as the PS5 has no Bluetooth connectivity without a dongle but there's so many things wrong with the Portal I just can't get my head around why it's a thing.

I thought the same as you at first, but tbh the more I used it, I became more fond of it. I was able to use it in bed or anywhere in the house. Have yet to try it away from the home ecosystem, but to my surprise ran smooth with low latency. It became an acquired taste. I know it's weird, and yes the price is up there. I do have a backbone as well, but I have an iphone SE which is such a tiny screen to play stuff, so it was already a better screen upgrade. If only it can open a browser to actually log in to hotel wifi networks, that would definitely be a difference maker. Revisit this in a few weeks and I want to know if you might change your mind on it.

The screen on this thing is bigger than an iPad mini. Holy cow.

We should’ve gotten the vita V2

We got controllers out there that cost more than this. The price is more than fair. Its actually a really good deal

Like trying to play smash brothers online with old switch WiFi only

No browser. They really dont want you going to gamepass.

Works great for me I don’t get the hate, and no I don’t the backbone

everytime i see a video that says this thing doesn't suck, they usually spend the majority of the video telling us why its bad, never leave with the feeling that that thing is justifiable. Linus did the same thing

I believe Sony released this thing as a quick cash grab.

But if it’s the cost of going to dinner a few times. It’s amazing to remotely play ps5 games in bed or anywhere around the house. I don’t regret this purchase at all. These reviewers are way and I mean way going out of bounds with what Sony created this for. So if you like playing remotely and have a Ps5 it’s a no brainer

Can you just sell it to me for half the price

whens ps5 servers go down one day is gonna be a papper weight

Yes exactly my brotha unless you’re so engrossed in your game you can’t stop gaming even to take a dump! 💩 I would avoid spending money on this hunk of junk and instead apply it to the latest VR headset!

IN my opinion that thing is junk that should not exist .... no idea why there are so many people online actually fighting for it saying how awesome it is.

These richards keep calling 200 lots of money. don’t believe them, they wipe with 200 dollars.

To me it's just a ''console'' to go toilet.

Backbone is trash. Everyone including me that has used it hate the buttons. Cringey to use.

Sony needs to throw a real chip and some storage!! Stop faking the funk @Sony! I'd rather grab my Switch or even dust off an old 3DS if I am going portable. I hope Sony is just waiting for AMD to make a bit better portable APU for rev 2 of the portal...

Wii:U in 2023

its just a wiiU tablet with a sony logo on it, at least you could use the wiiU gamepad as a TV remote... yikes

Despite the critics and all the negativity, I find this devices a huge success. Everywhere you go PS Portal is sold out. It doesn't matter what anyone thinks because this is sold out. PS Portal is design for those players who are working in the office or travel and cant continue the enjoyment of their PS5 at home. PS Portal is not for gamers who always have access to their PS5. There are so many games for PS5 that have over 100 hours of game time and the PS Portal allows those players who cant always access their PS5 from home because they have to share the TV with the family, or constantly traveling. Internet infrastructure is still on the rise and we will see some positive internet changes to come in the next few years.

Should have been the new PS Vita

Nobody would think that sony would throw in the portal with a ps5 sony is money hungry

I see miku

Sony is wasting another piece of tech... if they made the VITA more functional... it would have a larger sucess same as the Switch...

I returned my ps portal yesterday. Looks great but is so damn trash. So now I’m saving money so I can buy the Lenovo legion go. So far the Lenovo looks good and can play games natively.

Talking about the ps5 when showing a ps4 one 😅

I want it, but I'm still stuck in the mindset of you know "is it worth it"........

Not for me. I don’t even own a PS5. My PS4 is starting to crap out on me after all these years. I’m actually getting back into retro gaming. I absolutely love my SNES, N64, Wii. 360, Sega Genesis. Still using my CRT TV 📺 I’m having so much fun.

Dude it's a CONTROLLER, you're being misleading by saying there's a tablet in the middle of a controller. There's a SCREEN in the middle of the CONTROLLER. You dudes are doing yourselves a disservice conflating non issues for things it was never meant to do. Did you complain about the Edge costing 200? 🤨 The Portal is the greatest controller ever made hands down. It's not a console please quit with the misinformation. Everything you've complained about aren't issues with the Portal. I have zero issues playing in my house. Be honest

I totally agree with all these points. I thought and still do think it is kind of a dumb device. However for me it does make good sense as someone who is in a LDR and we both have good wifi or when I travel for business or to visit family it is nice. It is over priced and needs more features. A lot of people I see who love it are dads who do not want to clog up the main tv. I will also say while watching tv or sports it is nice to do some grinding it for sure. It is cool, but well an LCD Steam Deck is a better device that can do a lot more.

Answer to that question: no. Don't buy it

Dads! Moms! this device was made for us. Find reviewers in "late stage" gaming. I agree this device isn't for those who do not have to share their time, location or tv with anyone else.

They made a worse PSP... In what world would i want a portable device to not be well... portable... They should have just made a properly reimagined PS Vita 2 with people's new hunger for portable consoles. Disappointing to say the least, won't be getting my money until this has bluetooth and wifi 6 at the very least.

You should not get it it’s honestly not that good i understand what you are saying but the reason it is not that vary good is because it just feels incomplete its better to get a steamdeck and mod it a little

Xbox Remote Play works over 5G. Playstation Remote Play barely works with even the best wifi.

Problem is it's really hard to buy it.

For the price they are asking, remote play is not enough. They should have simple titles or parts of a game that can be downloaded. Simple titles for the device that can be played off the remote play. Like, you download two small games before heading out and it syncs with the system. This way, if remote play is not an option when you take it out, at least you have two local games for some entertainment.