PlayStation Portal: A remarkable failure ⚠️

I use remote play a decent amount to access my PS5. It's amazing how much worse the experience is on Sony's own proprietary hardware.

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[AntVenom]

Sony is never sending you anything for free again. 😂

[nightblau]

Man PSP was so ahead of its time even Sony cannot reach it.

[clebbington]

I see a lot of people who compared the Portal to the Wii U gamepad, but the Wii U had a dedicated wireless network between the console and gamepad. That way if your wifi was congested/slow or you were offline the gamepad would still work. You would have very few frame drops unless you got too far from the console

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5:13 "this Android tablet is stuffed with proprietary [voiceover: software]" 10:1 odds he said "shit" in the original recording 🤣

[kindredlebel]

I respect you so much for this. Im going to join your membership based purely on your honesty. If anyone deserves support its a content creater with a spine.

[jimhalpert]

The mute button take is sooo agreeable. Like who at Sony thought this would make sense. Like maybe they’re just collecting our data…

[beautepley]

I don't care if Sony hates your guts after this review, I appreciate the brutal honesty. The best part is you were cynical but practical and I'm not annoyed by it at all unlike other reviews that lean negative on a product. I genuienly think this review was loaded with thoughtful information that comes from a man with years of experience testing controllers and other remote play devices and he's not afraid to tell it's a piece of crap if it's a piece of crap. Well done dude!

[Darkspines]

Man, when the WiiU Gamepad does what you're trying to do a decade earlier and better at that, failure isn't nearly harsh enough.

[AustinJohnPlays]

21:07 Would've loved to see the video the week your Xbox 360 died lol

[chillmccool]

Even if you won't get any review products from Sony, you absolutely killed it this review!

[Stunbunny]

I’d love to know what Sony’s test setup was for the Portal. I’m betting it’s WAY better than 90% of Americans’ wi-fi and streaming capabilities.

[pyrob]

Let's be real, when they asked about where we intend to play it, the question was never about locations outside your house. The toilet would be my guess for the most likely answer in single households, the living room, when the TV is occupied would be my runner-up for shared living spaces.

That's probably why it only works greatish sometimes, when you sit pretty much next to your router.

EDIT: Also the airplane mode is just hilarious.

[soulsolis]

You know what's weird? The WII U Gamepad did a FAR better job than this way before too!

[mpetrides]

Thank you! After watching several other reviews of the Portal, I was beginning to think I was the only person having the issues you describe: unpredictable stuttering, frame drops, poor video quality and, most importantly, connections that work fine one time but not another. It's good to know that someone else with a stable internet connection and the knowledge/skill to find and fix problems is nonetheless having the same issues I am having.I no longer feel like vox clamantis in desertos (a voice crying in the wilderness).

[XVNRX]

The crying about the mute switch thing is odd
It’s not that serious bud
And your PS5 turning off on its own is a You thing bud

[cosmosofinfinity]

The PS Vita at launch was $250, and later the same price as this ($200). The perfected Steam Deck OLED model is $50 more than a PS5, and you can play just about anything from every era on it (and that's without even talking about emulation, just what the Steam store makes available and affordable). I think Sony has made these decisions really easy for us.

[Xacris]

Airplane mode on an internet-only device is honestly hilarious

[jesusf]

Thanks for your honesty, Bob! I thought it was weird that only a few reviewers were mentioning the audio issues. You can really tell who's licking Sony's boots by how positive their reviews were.

[mossmoonwalker]

Wulff Den really has become a main stay in my cycle of videogame tech, and for that I just want to say "Thank you".

[joemamr]

Those WiFi mesh systems tend to suck in my experience, much lower bandwidth, especially if you aren’t using Ethernet as the backend to connect each and every one of them, but even then they still tend to add a bunch of ping and jitter.

I always recommend people just get a giant powerful wireless router with a ton of real external antennas on them and aim them properly. On my property I can pull full bandwidth in any room or outside, whereas when I tried the Asus WiFi mesh system my bandwidth halved and ping grew by 20% or so best case scenario.

That time for your packets to hop across air and be processed and sent twice really adds up.