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Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Re: Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Post by jonhohle »

MBCook wrote: post #16
colonwqbang wrote: post #14

What's the market for a (non-hacked) device like this, when the Switch and the Deck already exist? Surely the appeal of a handheld is that you can bring it with you on the train, airplane, etc. What am I missing?

You could use it remotely, but I doubt it would feel great due to latency and bandwidth. In home, a great use is to play when the TV the PS5 is hooked up to is in use. You can play and someone else can watch a movie. Also the Switch and Deck don’t play PS5 games you already own. And both are more expensive. It’s 100% a companion device. If you owned a deck you could just run the PS remote app on it too.

There’s at least one open source remote play client that could work on the Steam Deck, and the official one if booted into windows.

Re: Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Post by jwells89 »

cooper_ganglia wrote: post #15
zerocrates wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Deck is twice the price of the Portal, at minimum. Of course it's also vastly more capable. They're really not competitors, except for the Deck's use case as a streaming sink from a PC; this is more a "you've got these nice controls and screen, sure would be nice if you could use them for more" situation.

You can buy a refurbished 256 GB Steam Deck for $319, and there’s an app to easily use Remote Play with your PS5! For not too much more money than the PS Portal, you can also download your entire Steam collection + non-Steam games (Minecraft w/ mods + shaders), and have a fully-functioning Linux machine! Personally, I’m very confused on who exactly the PS Portal is for, but the only important thing is that people are…

There’s savings to be had over time on Steam sales too, where even AAA titles eventually become dirt cheap. With new games now costing $70, it doesn’t take long for the price difference between a Deck and a Portal (or other similar streaming device) to pay for itself.

If all I wanted was a PS Portal-like experience I think I’d get one of those USB-C phone game controller things to put my smartphone in, which would be cheaper (albeit with a smaller screen), be able to stream from more than just a PS5, and would get better every time I upgrade my phone. At $200, without hacks the PS Portal is a bit too much of a one-trick pony.

Re: Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Post by nightowl_games »

RajT88 wrote: post #13
jsheard wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they're selling it at cost or at a loss (I don't know if they are) as a value-add to the PS5 then they wouldn't want people buying it just to play emulators.

Notably they still sell retro games on PSN. As long as retro sales exceed the cost to lock the device down you will see stuff like this. I recall one time paying for FF7 which I played on PS3/PSP. That game alone probably makes it worth it.

Nice. I played they FF7 on my hacked PSP.

Hacked PSP was a great time to be a gamer. Played through all the greats I missed like Harvest Moon, a bunch of Final Fantasy, some mega man. Nostalgia overload thinking about it.

Re: Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Post by ShamelessC »

jonhohle wrote: post #21
MBCook wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could use it remotely, but I doubt it would feel great due to latency and bandwidth. In home, a great use is to play when the TV the PS5 is hooked up to is in use. You can play and someone else can watch a movie. Also the Switch and Deck don’t play PS5 games you already own. And both are more expensive. It’s 100% a companion device. If you owned a deck you could just run the PS remote app on it too.

There’s at least one open source remote play client that could work on the Steam Deck, and the official one if booted into windows.

Indeed I recently replayed The Last of Us Part 2 (PS4 Pro) using chiaki on my Steam Deck. Software also supports PS5.

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Post by hiccuphippo »

colonwqbang wrote: post #14

What's the market for a (non-hacked) device like this, when the Switch and the Deck already exist? Surely the appeal of a handheld is that you can bring it with you on the train, airplane, etc. What am I missing?

I thought it was to play PS5 in the bathroom.

Re: Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games

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Post by timfsu »

cooper_ganglia wrote: post #15
zerocrates wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Deck is twice the price of the Portal, at minimum. Of course it's also vastly more capable. They're really not competitors, except for the Deck's use case as a streaming sink from a PC; this is more a "you've got these nice controls and screen, sure would be nice if you could use them for more" situation.

You can buy a refurbished 256 GB Steam Deck for $319, and there’s an app to easily use Remote Play with your PS5! For not too much more money than the PS Portal, you can also download your entire Steam collection + non-Steam games (Minecraft w/ mods + shaders), and have a fully-functioning Linux machine! Personally, I’m very confused on who exactly the PS Portal is for, but the only important thing is that people are…

I returned the Steam Deck when I received it - it was larger than expected and just didn't feel ergonomic. The Portal on the other hand almost feels like holding the DualSense. It's a nice, though limited, device.
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