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M337ING@alien.topB to HardwareEnglish · 1 year ago

Sony’s PlayStation Portal gives a confusing first impression

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Sony’s PlayStation Portal gives a confusing first impression

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M337ING@alien.topB to HardwareEnglish · 1 year ago
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The PlayStation Portal is a perplexing single-purpose device.
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  • UGMadness@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    This is good for vanlifers who can’t fit a TV inside their vans, parents of small kids who don’t own iPads, and… that’s it? 🤔

    Can you even use this as a standalone second controller for the PS5?

    • firelitother@alien.topB
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      Just buy a portable monitor. There are even ones with OLED or high refresh rates now.

    • Noreng@alien.topB
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      It’s like the Wii U, except with even lower adoption rates

      • iaosis@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        Daily reminder that Stephen Totilo (currently of Axios, formerly of Kotaku) would plug his Wii U into airport wall outlets and play games on the tablet controller thingy

    • nathris@alien.topB
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      Sony looked at their metrics and saw that 99% of PS Vita owners only used it for Remote Play and came to entirely the wrong conclusion.

  • JaggedMetalOs@alien.topB
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    I don’t know why they don’t also let you run Android apps on the thing, it apparently even runs Android under the hood!

  • EdzyFPS@alien.topB
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=528PLS-4oG8

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DIs7LT_RjKI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSiT4Y3-yCk

  • AutonomousOrganism@alien.topB
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    $200 is a little pricey for such a single-use accessory to a $400–$500 game console

    I still don’t understand why it exists and who thought that it would sell.

    • salgat@alien.topB
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      I would totally buy this if the price wasn’t so outrageous. This things as expensive as a Switch Lite.

    • Sipas@alien.topB
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      It looks very pointless as is, but it would actually be amazing if it could play cloud games. People who don’t have a PlayStation could potentially get this and a $15 subscription.

    • randomkidlol@alien.topB
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      for the people who will inevitably jailbreak it and make it work with their home PC, or try to run emulators on it.

      • AnonymousAggregator@alien.topB
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        “Or try to run emulators on it” this

    • matthieuC@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Well some people though Quibi would make money

  • DumDumbBuddy@alien.topB
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    This should of been $100 max

    • AstralProbing@alien.topB
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      It is, there just also happens to be a $100 Sony Brand Loyalty Tax™

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