Eurogamer: "On the hardware side, Sony has delivered a good piece of kit - but hopefully we'll see improvements and new features added further on down the line."
Push Square: "It's a fairly minor update, with the main addition being support for some 5GHz public WiFi networks, opening users up to faster connections when out of the house. On top of that, there's the usual line about improving stability."
Amazon Video Games Best Sellers
29. PlayStation Portal Remote Player
45. Xbox Series X 1TB Gaming Console
I put that there because people kept saying that even though it kept getting reported as the best selling accessory by dollar sales that it wasn't actually selling well.
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Sony‘s PlayStation Portal gamble has paid off, if sales are anything to go by. Eight months after its release, the PS5 accessory continues to sell in major markets. According to Circana, the PS5 remote player was U.S. market’s best-selling accessory in dollar sales for the month of May as well as the year 2024 to date.
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I’m very happy with my day one Portal, crazy that some people are still upset that the Portal s a thing and also selling well.
I really enjoy it. Its a convenience with a catch... currently. I'm confident that Sony will un-tether it from the console and let people use it for streaming from PS servers directly like PC players can do. Really utilize all the features of Gaikai that they purchased.
Them allowing off network connectivity is a good first step to achieving that goal.
Streaming would be really cool, I would like to play some PS3 games on it if possible.
I would love to play a game like Wet on Portal for some reason. I felt the Portal was perfect for playing Arashi on its smaller screen.
Loooooove the portal, there are some aspects to improve, but overall, a great first step (not in remote play, that's been out for years)
The PS Portal has a built-in browser capable of playing YouTube videos, and without the need to connect to a PS5 via Remote Play. The browser is buried in the Settings menu and has severe limitations, but it could open up future possibilities.
The inbuilt browser is usually how they hack into the system by tricking it into executing external code.
It wasn't the prima purpose of the devices and unessecery so they hid it likely out of fear of exploitation or the ability to use other cloud streaming services
Either they're going to patch it out or hackers are going to start opening up the doors to do tons of things for it. Likely why they opted out of having one readily available.
Fortunately you don't have to be in the dark. Download the Remote Olay app and test your network out for free.
Until I can use remote play over my local network on PC, I won't consider getting the portal. Fix it on PC to give me the confidence that it will be worth getting a standalone device for it...
It'd be much better if it had a way to access an app store. There's an unofficial PS remote play app I use which is absolutely flawless.
Curious to see if this will be eventually modded and running android somehow. He mentions PSP and Vita emulation, and how that would've been a very nice insensitive, and I agree. I imagine that if the modding community takes an interest then we might see that possible cause I don't see SONY supporting this thing outside of probably updating it to patch out exploits. Couldn't care less about remote play but emulation would make me buy it, especially if it goes down 50 bucks.