PlayStation Portal 1 Month Later - Take it or leave it. 

I have had mine since launch day, and I must say I am loving mine. I love the ability to play while laying in bed or watching TV with my wife without me having to go to the game room to play. I was well aware of what it was when I bought it, and that is why I am quite happy with the purchase

The PS portal was designed for gamers who fall under these categories: Who travel alot and can use a travel hotspot to connect. Who share a TV and cant access their PS5 at any time. who want to continue those games that have over 100 hours like Final Fantasy, Diablo Horizon Feels like it was made for adults who started the PS journey since PS1 was first released

The sharing the TV is the biggest reason why I love the Portal. I have a backlog of story driven games I want to play but my TV is usually being used. Now I can chill on the couch and play. Really enjoying it. It's for sure not for everybody.

As someone who still owns a working Vita and am actually looking forward to the next Portal restock, I agree that the Vita was wayyy ahead of its time. It’s a shame Sony really shot themselves in the foot with all those anti-consumer choices, which it doesn’t really look like they learned much from when you look at the Portal. Still interesting to see where this tech goes in the next few years.

Just received mine today & it’s been amazing so far. Playing while on the go has been a game changer 🔥

Your spot on, with the Portal is for those who tick the boxes. I've been remote playing on a Samsung Tablet S7+ for a few years but have to prop the tablet up to use it. The Portal is by far the most convenient way to remote play for me. I've never played so much in my life lol. Whenever I can't get on the big screen I just chill with the family and use the Portal. My lunch breaks at work I hotspot and use Portal. Currently playing my backlog games I want to Platinum like Days Gone and next Crysis 3. The LCD screen is actually really nice but I obviously notice a BIG difference going back to my OLED TV. I have two WiFi boosters around my house so always have an excellent internet connection and have upto 1GB internet speeds. I found that disabling HDCP on the PS5 in the HDMI settings eliminated all lag, but today there's a Portal update which I think may have fixed the lag/stutters. I like that the PS5 is acting as a server for the Portal with your full game library, with full duel sense features and we don't have to buy standalone games for it but disappointed we can't install any games and play natively. I would of paid a bit more for internal storage to do this. For those with unlimited access to your game setup, I wouldn't recommend buying a Portal. Overall I enjoy my Portal, but for what it is it's expensive, hopefully they'll unlock Cloud gaming on it and eventually the price will drop.

I wouldn’t say it’s just for turn base rpg’s because I have played a lot of AAA games on mine without no issues.

The GameSir G8 Galileo emerged victorious against the PlayStation portal.

This was the most well put together portal video I watched so far. And I have been watching a ton!

The input latency is really bad. DF found that it was an additional 80ms on top of system latency. You can even see it here in this video. 11:42 when the screen goes black. There are 3 frames difference, and in a 30fps video, that is ~90ms difference. Moonlight on the other hand, at 60fps (same as ps portal) is under 50ms. Really too bad that Sony isn't using bespoke software or a direct link to the ps5 - not to mention all the other artificial limitations Sony has implemented.

You didnt mention stuttering, which is a widely known problem on reddit for example. I have it too, like every 20 seconds I have 5 seconds of stutter. How is that for you?

Also you can use this as a controller. Just look at your television instead of the portal while you’re playing a game.😂 The controller on the portal has the same latency as a dual sense controller. The only thing slower is the portal screen you’re looking at.

If they allow u to cloud game with their service as well as be able to watch media from the ps5 .. RU-vid Netflix tubi etc … then it would be so much more worth while a purchase.

Portal is exactly what I wanted - play PS5 games in my bed, my gf house or my parents house and not some watered down mobile console

After watching more than 100 ps portal review videos, this is a very high quality well made analysis video

I know exactly what the PlayStation Portal is and what it is capable of (and not). Had it since launch. I love mine.

Everyone is always picking on how the Portal looks cuz of the cut in half remote look. It doesnt look THAT bad. Literally every handheld out there IS just essentially and broken in half comtroller with a screen in the middle. The Portal just knew how to actually make it comfortable to hold.

Oh the Portal is a great device by the way I'm loving so far. The screen is bright and colorful, the controls feel better than my Edge. I wish the device came with USB-C 3.1 I'd have the option of using my AR glasses. In my opinion that's the only setup for remote play that could top the Portal because with all other setups you're sacrificing something when not using the Portal. 😊 It's either battery life, all in one convenience, screen quality, ergonomic comfortability, or uninterrupted game play. The Portal is the best option for PS5 remote play hands down. 🙂

What game is at 4:35

Really like my Portal!

i loved mine, for real i have never had so much fun playing PS5 games from the couch... until the right stick wouldnt go up and down. Had to turn it back and now i cant get a new one since they are all sold.

Bought PS Portal, was really happy about it. Now got Steam deck OLED which is also a veeeery good option for PS remote play. It's good because of HDR and OLED. Still uses my ps portal because of the haptics

Thank you mate, amazing review. Proudly subscribed to your channel. Keep up with great job. Respect and keep it real

As dumb as I thought it was it's doing very well and I find myself using mine way more than I thought I would. 😅

My 7 year old open his on Christmas Day. Can't keep the kid off it. He loves it.

I have average internet at home and never encountered any problem or hickup in my gameplay. I've streamed games on my portal from hotels in Germany and France (I'm from the Netherlands) and everything worked great. Can't complain about this device. But I do think 150,- was a better price for what it is.

Be cool if they make a portable PS4 handheld that you can still use your physical games but only if it's inserted in your console and has to authenticate with it a few times during a game session.

Still trying to get hands on one or have somewhere that stocks it

What killed the Vita from what I remember when watching a ton of YT review videos on it because I wanted it so bad was the memory card prices! The prices were insane compared to a universal micro SD card! Like he showed the prices! I got a Vita as a gift which I still have and being a young teen at the time with no job I couldn't afford the memory card! I could barely afford games for it! If memory cards were cheaper I would have made more PS store purchases to avoid asking my mom to take me to GameStop!

I hope so been sitting on the switch fence for way too way

Idea behind this device is good, but quirks you mentioned are making it a redundancy for me. I use remote play occasionally so I will stick to using my smartphone. It looks dope though.

Ive had mine for a couple weeks now, and i must say i am happier with it than i thought I would’ve been. I mainly use it when my girls watching tv and i want to game, she can have the tv and i play on the portal. And i play it in bed when I don’t feel like playing at my desk. I do have to say, I haven’t run into any of the issues people have been claiming with latency. I don’t even have the absolute best wifi (i have gigabit wifi but there is better in my area) mine has never cut out in the middle of playing it, and for a 1080p LCD screen it looks a lot better than i thought it was going to

Side point, I tried connecting my Sony WH1000XM5 headphones to the PS5, they didn't connect. Bruh. Sony PS5 doesn't support Sony headphones 😐

If you disconnect the PS5 HDMI cable it’s a lot smoother.

Its hit and miss for me. Sometimes it's runs great, I can be playing a game with little lag and then randomly it becomes pretty unplayable with no change in network environment, no one adding things to the network etc. Now considering steam deck as am additional purchase

I think if you could play playstation + cloud streaming it like you can with gamepass, it might be worth it. I have my own TV in a gaming room, which is not really worth it for me.

The BIGGEST Issue is that a third party Android app has MUCH better streaming quality from the PS5 to your phone. Sony’s solution should far outperform third party stuff but it just doesn’t sadly

What game was it that has Miles Morales from the movie?

I have had my portal for 1 week and I absolutely love it ❤

Can I know which game you’re playing at the 4:40 time stamp?

Thank you for this one, for me one of the biggest downs of this device is losing the 120hz piece and being locked with 60 , or not even being an OLED screen , something you see more and more these days.

Cloud gaming will be the future, this is the whole idea of portal.

I agree with all faults, but I still love mine. I just play on the couch while watching tv with fam then I usually play in bed for a bit. For what it is it's great.

How can i play my PlayStation portal with the PlayStation 5 off? Does anybody know? Or does my ps5 have to be on?

I just realised it's a wii u game pad for ps5

Do you need to have the ps5 wired to your router? Or is it ok to have it wireless

I have portal and steamdeck oled with chiaki4deck. Portal stuttering and drops fps to 30fps every 10 seconds (all users have this problem). Steamdeck runs perfectly smooth. Ps5 on wire, 900mbps lightcable internet. Waiting for update, hope they will fix this issue.

The fact that this streaming-only device doesn’t have WiFi 6 support is ridiculous. Glad I didn’t get this. The revision will hopefully have regular Bluetooth and probably WiFi 7 by the time it happens, if it happens at all.

I have the ps portal and i just love it, its magical compared to all my other handhelds although i don’t use it a lot because of bad latency. Ps play on my Logitech cloud g and chiaki on my steam deck and even ps remote on my iphone are all much better than ps portal in terms of streaming quality and latency!

I forgot this even dropped ☠️

I have seen a lot of reviews of the Portal and all seem to be missing the actual point of this great machine…What if you have limited space and no monitor/tv because your a student or living still at home with parents ???? Surely this then comes into why the Vita was so great….not everyone is a pro gamer and the vast majority of people put up with latency and resolution problems just to enjoy an hour or two of relaxing games at the end of a crap day…..Well done Sony

Brother the controllers are called called DualSense.

4 and a half mins of introduction in a 12 minute video is a bit too much. Add this to unnecessary music and explanation of set up makes it even worse. This is not a class essay.. please try to focus on getting to the point and getting the attention of the people who watch the videos On top of that you have actually given a review but no real insights for using it for a month .. it’s pretty much the same thing every channel has put out there using it for couple of days .. no additional insights for using it for 30 days ?

Sent mine back; it's garbage. 100% relies on wifi, so if you were hoping to take it on the go, good luck at getting a good connection on public wifi. You can't log in to the guest network without using your phone, which kind of defeats the purpose, and the lag is notable in a lot of fast-paced games. My S22+ does remote play much better; I just need to get a backbone or something similar.

Take the PS5 dual sense controller on a Steam Deck and you got the perfect hand-held device. However, comparing Steam Deck to Playstation Portal is not fair because they're not the same device. PS Portal is exclusively for streaming games.

wish it did more. Id rather pay an extra $100 and do a few more things.

Can we get $1 for every time he said dualchock controller over dualsense🤣🤣 I've had mimes for a week and I have loved it so dam much I had left over paw print stick covers and I'm loving it my wifi is fast and amazing I've plaid helldivers many times and I've had no latency

The portal is great I could just imagine if and when they make a new psp how useless it would be

Bought one yesterday and returned it yesterday not for me 👎🏾

If you can afford it, save up a little and get a new steam deck! It cam stream the ps5 better than portal (apps allow you to change the bitrate) and can do so much more

Newest Backbone at Costco for $50. Portal has latency even with Giga speed. Sony put ancient tech lcd 1080p, wifi5, No Bluetooth, No Apps, No web browser -good luck getting wifi travelling lol. Useless toy, too big to fit in pocket, and look like a dork in public.

Too funny! It’s a peripheral. It’s not a Steam Deck….well it’s 400$ cheaper. The Bluetooth thing sucks but a 15$ dongle on amazon fixed that. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE MINE. And remote play on your phone sucks. It NEVER worked in my house with 1GB fiber and the portal has been a 1000000x better experience

The comprises will always be there.. games develop faster then the hardware for handhelds. Nintendo realized that 2, 3, decades ago.. handhelds can't runn bigg aaa games without comprises. You make a handheld and then you develop games based on the hardware.. not the other way around. People keep saying it's not true.. but the reason Nintendo is actually flourishing with that same idea more then 30 years later should say enough. Where there better graphics possible in the 90s sure.. but with bigg comprises. Same goes for the 2000s and the same thing is going on now.. the device that understands its limitations and focuses on what they can do survives.. look at the steam deck and again Nintendo.. don't get me wrong! I love the rog ally! But if you look at it objective.. the deck and Nintendo actually do things way better.. that comprise between quality and trying to be the most powerful will still be there in the future. And looking back 30 years.. you know which side will win that war! The ones that know their limitations over the one who wants to be the most powerful.

It's a cool device but after 3 weeks I'm already thinking about selling it.

Ps portable is just a remote is not a console. PSP Vita was a console but let me realistic Nintendo is the king of handheld

#1 I have a iPad Pro and extra ps5 controller with the ps remote app download waste of money

I can't imagine spending 200 dollars to stream ps5 games

Remote play simple

Bro pls check my comment on the 1200 pc build

Table and chair review needs to be removed.

Sony so scared of piracy but they will always get hacked so just give us the web browser

Wait until the stick drift happens then the device is as garbage as the stick drift ps5 controller ls

And yet that thing is sold out everywhere 😂… i’ll wait for people who bought it thinking that it was an independent handheld to resell at a massive discount.

If the Portal was out before the Steamdeck I wouldn't own one because remote play was my reason for getting the device. I ask that you guys please stop adding to the confusion by dancing around the simple fact it's a controller. To compare anything on portable consoles other than the screen and the portable console's controllers is very misleading. Great vid though don't get me wrong, excellent job. Help end the nonsense and make it understood that the Portal is no different than the Edge, they are controllers set up with different features. 😊 Like the Escalade pick up truck and the Escalade Extended Cab... Very different in configuration but both are Escalades. 😊 🖖 Have a good one.

Love the Dadstation. Been playing d4 while the kids are using the TV.

I want to play it on my work, does it work with my iPhone hotspot?

I was intrigued with the review until 6:22 and you got into chairs and tables!

Once it’s hackable then it’ll be pretty sick

THIS SYSTEM IS NOT RELIABLE AT ALL

Dude, we didnt click on the video for a freakin' history lesson on Remote Play. We clicked on it to hear ablut your thoughts on the bloody thing the video was centered on a month into owning it. Cut the filler BS out and GET TO THE BLOODY POINT!

It still is ps2 that has the most units sold

I have the same ALEX drawer unit

cool

no bluetooth, no go!

That blue t-shirt POPS. Channel is growing! 💪🏼

I’ll be using it for Minecraft, city skylines 2 and stuff like that. This will be perfect for me.

It was basically made for Playstation diehards who love to have/collect Playstation stuff because it's been sold out since release so even with all these mixed comments it's still hard to get it like the ps5 once was. New tech will always be a winner in this age of tech. Crapy or not, it seems like ALL tech has a place in someone's collection. We've all seen hundreds of gaming stuff come and go and in the end pretty much everyone after something is gone says "I should've got one just because now they don't make it anymore or I shouldn't have sold mine" and that alone I believe nowadays makes everything game tech desirable weather it's good or bad. Then there's the other half who most definitely find a good use for it. I don't watch reviews for opinions on products I watch reviews to see all the features & to see it in use. It's easier to let someone else figure it all out 1st so when I buy it I already know how to use it like a pro! 😁

I'm a new dad and I high key need this. My setup is downstairs and at a desk. Most of the things I need to care for my son is upstairs and away from the dogs I have. It'd be nice to play Elden Ring or Need for Speed while being arm's length away from my newborn while he plays or sleeps in his crib.

The problem with mine, is it wont turn on my ps5 while it is in rest mode. Also, it wont connect to my account. With that being said, maybe there will be a firmware/ software update to fix these issues. Also i use my 3d pulse headset with it. I connect it to the 3.5mm jack. I find the headset sound pretty good,.and the mic on the portal is also well done

Ps portal is awesome, i tried downloading a game at the same time playing zombies online and not even a huccup, no degrade in visual q

clicked the link for the c7 chair, does not look like same chair in your video, your chair has way thicker cushion, the chair in the link looks way different, the bottom seat cushion part. Help please?

Sad thing about Sony is that they came out with a PlayStation Butthole not a portal. This is a waste of money and time sadly to say.

200 dollar paper weight or dust collector 😂

Why would you upload in 30 fps..

Just found your channel. Your content reminds me a lot of optimum. Really great quality B roll and commentary. 🎉

Its a controller with a screen. I would have expected, at the very least that sony optimised the latency, but they didn't even do that. Not sure why this exists. Even if i'm a parent and my kids are using the tv, i dont want to play games while having resolution drops and stutters

Am I the only one that’s had connection issues since day one I have 300 mbps with the ps5 on 5ghz WiFi the only time I had no issues was with the ps5 connected to LAN but unfortunately this isn’t possible for me to leave connected at all times

Anyone making positive reviews for this product is just schilling for Sony. You received a free controller, so what else you going to do lol. Few reviewers had integrity and panned the product -and rightfully so.

I find it amazing how Sony fan's will buy anything with the PlayStation logo and reward Sony for doing the very least..useless of a hand-held ever made.

Wow, you gave this a good review. I was thinking about getting it but now, eh not so much. I like having physical media only if they would create a way to up load it to digital like they do with movies to own since I'm already purchasing it. Also not being able to use it to look up other apps is also a miss for me since Nintendo switch does let you.