Comment by Gamoc@lemmy.world on PlayStation Portal review: impressive hardware but is Remote Play itself good enough?

You can plug your dual sense into both a phone and a steam deck without it costing you any more money.

And the dual-sense then attaches to your phone and increases the size of the screen for free?

Get some glue and make a holder or something. Bigger screen? Use a tablet, laptop, or PC that you’ve probably already got. £200 for a device that can’t do anything on its own? Stop bending over for them.

You pay for convenience.

A handheld that can only stream games from a home console is anything but convenient.

On the contrary, it’s super convenient. You turn it on, it connects, you play.

Yeah, and convenience used to be putting multiple different functions in one device. Now apparently it’s more convenient to pay £200 for a device that can literally only do one thing instead of using the many other devices you already own to conveniently do the same thing.

This goes for lots of things. What point are you making? You’re mad people are wasting money? When they didn’t cuz they like their purchase.

No I’m disappointed they didn’t make a worthwhile device. I would’ve loved this if it had some worthwhile additions, but it’s an overpriced screen with a controller attached, useless without your PS5 connected to it wirelessly.

Even just streaming from PS+/Now would’ve done it for me, but “here’s a way to play games you already own that are installed on the console you already own, but it costs £200 and you could do the same thing with many of the devices you already own, some of which may have an ethernet connection, so they’re better at it” just feels like a waste.

Hopefully it’ll get hacked and they’ll get gamepass streaming on it or something.

Yeah, and convenience used to be putting multiple different functions in one device

Yeah, I always use my Swiss army knife in the kitchen, way more convenient than using my chef’s knife, because it combines so many functions.

Convenience is often a tool that does one thing and does it really well. Combining multiple functions almost always complicates things.

I used to own a combination microwave/oven/steamer/grill that I replaced with a simple microwave, as I rarely if ever used any of those other functions. Guess which one is more convenient to use?

Compare a simple black and white laser printer with an all-in-one printer/scanner/fax combo an tell me which one is more convenient.

I’d say the printer/scanner/fax combo is more convenient the second you either need to scan something or find yourself in the 1980s and need to send a fax.

It’s kinda absurd to think Sony can’t put more than one feature into this £200 device without over complicating it. There’s no reason it couldn’t stream from PS Now, all the hardware it needs is already there. It’s just the bare minimum and much of the potential was squandered.

They do sell like $5 phone clips for controllers now a days as some mobile games are adding more controller support. But if for you an extra inch or two of screen real estate for the display is worth $200 then that’s your position, it just seems like the market share for that will be pretty damn niche. Like the nvidia shield I don’t expect it to be around for to long so if you do want this you better get one while they make em but know once the ps5 is done support for this will die out as well.

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