Different goals for different devices regardless.

The PS Portal is literally just a streaming device, and i’ve heard its actually pretty good for what it is, especially considering it keeps the Dualsense features.

the Steamdeck is for far more than that, and it wasn’t perfect at launch by any means.

a slightly bigger screen, but you’ll pay for that when the compression artifacts are more noticable.

but other than that, like you said, no. theres 0 reason to. and the stream delay seems a frame or two slower than phones for some reason.

seems like the target audience for this is very niche. People who want a first party way to stream their games, but also share a TV and don’t want to just pay a cheaper price for a phone mount, but are willing to spend $200 on a dedicated streaming device.

im willing to bet this doesn’t sell well, but im hoping it gets jailbroken. this little device could be a hell of an emulation device at a little over half the cost of the steamdeck.