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PlayStation Portal is an interesting gadget, an official, Sony-designed streaming unit designed for Remote Play with PS5.
My advice to prospective Portal owners?
Download the Sony Remote Play app for your phone or a laptop and give it a go.
Beyond that, there’s little else.
This is no Wii U GamePad, which generally just worked.
The Portal itself is a nice piece of kit.
Weak blacks aside, it’s impressive.
On the top, there’s the power and pairing buttons along with volume controls.
Everything else is standard DualSense.
That’s essentially 60-80ms of extra lag compared to my LG CX TV running with game mode enabled.
It seems to be a limitation within the PS5, but who knows, your mileage may vary.
Everyone’s perception of latency is different, so PlayStation Portal may work out just fine for you.
If you don’t have game mode active on your TV, Portal may feel very similar.
Graduated, flat colours can be tricky for video streaming but even so, I expected better.
Slower paced content with muted colour such asAlan Wake 2can look very, very close to native.
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In summary, I really like the PlayStation Portal hardware.
First of all, PlayStation Portal should support cloud streaming.
Why this isn’t included already is frankly baffling.
Finally, there’s the concept of fan service.
A brilliant value-added feature would be to emulate prior Sony handhelds and maybe the PSone.
