Called it ages ago. This thing seems destined to fail - their entire market is a niche within a niche.
God it looks so ugly. Also wi-fi only AND only screencasts your PS5? Am I missing something?
So they're building a device around a feature they've been pushing hard for a decade and still nobody cares about, and is also available on other devices? Yet another great decision here in :freeze-gamer: land.
God I love lag, I fucking love waiting a decade for my inputs to register
It's probably going to cost as much as a base model Steam Deck, which can run games on its own and can also do PS5 remote play.
clearly this new console corresponds with the success of the steam deck and the nascent x86 portables market which is, all things considered, booming. Yet they release a dumb streaming thing for sony games only. lol. lmao.
Genuinely incredible given the steam deck and switch that there isn't a new psp. Hell, they could've used gimped PS5 hardware and added a surcharge for a dual license or whatever and I'm sure they'd move close to 50 million units.
God i hate these big handhelds. They're so impossible to pack and annoying to carry.
I wish there was a genuinely compact smartphone controller that could pack away with the footprint of two joycons on the grip, with the palm grips removed.
There was some reason I didn't like the kishi, i think i had a phone that wouldnt fit or something.
I didn't like the kishi because it doesn't fit with big flagships with a case on, and also it felt very uncomfotable to play on big phones. probably on flagships with smaller form factors it could be good.
I yoinked the basic s22 on a sale for a good price, basically the smallest flagship you can find, for like half off. I wonder how it'd fit.
The other reason I never bought one is I have not found myself bored away from home long enough to play a game in like many years. If I am, its probably too noisy to really enjoy the game anyway.
I tried it in a oneplus 8 pro, screen height is 163mm and it fitted without a case. the S22 is a bit smaller than this, so I imagine it will fit no problem. I don't know how comfortable it will be to hold tho, but likely it will fare a lot better than it did with me.
Outside of Microsoft and Sony's streaming services (which let's face it, people don't subscribe for the streaming portion), do any of these succeed? I've tried streaming to my phone before (even my tv). Even doing so from my pc and using the absolute minimal amount of compression, it still looks noticeably worse and the latency throws you off.
If it's a free side function on a regular console loke the Vita off your own console at home/on your network I can see it being mildly successful. Something that's like a Wii U gamepad expansion to a home console with outside-the-home capabilities is cool. Paying to stream off some locked-down internet server is bullshit.
Something that’s like a Wii U gamepad expansion to a home console with outside-the-home capabilities is cool
I would kill for something that was like plugging GBAs into a Gamecube, but with cell phones. Nintendo's already halfway there with joycons - just let us strap those onto any phone, and release a bunch of games that take advantage of the two-screen format.
Some of my favorite games from the last decade were originally on the Vita. There's better ways to play them now, but it's an underrated system.
PSP still ia the best Sony handheld. Everything else is a disgrace.
Gonna defend the Vita here since you get that whole library, plus you can also hack it and install the entire PSP on it
PSP was at least affordable and didn't require the stupid Sony memory cards as much. Vita is borderline useless without paying another $100 for memory.
:sicko-pog: Put a floppy drive on it and I'll buy one in every colour.
Hell...if, upon insertion of a floppy disk, it simply loaded the entire contents of the disk into NVRAM and then shut off the drive motor until you insert something else, it might not even be that power-intensive.
I think this is closer to the Steam Link (the box you plug into your TV to stream from your PC) than a cloud service, but I'm sure these things will not be useful the minute Sony stops providing support for them.
Why would anyone buy this if 100% of ps games are on steams jfc
Didn't they learn from Valve and Google's failure? Were they able to solve the input lag?
I can’t imagine they were. Since the problem is mostly caused by a pesky little thing called “physics”
Steam link is really good if the server computer is connected to ethernet and your router is beefy enough. I was able to play cyberpunk on a macbook air through wifi no problem. Lag was unnoticable. Of course for this to work your ping needs to be around 25ms or lower, anything higher than this and your brain will start to notice the lag. That being said, this is still a useless product. At least steam link makes sense because you may want to play games from your computer on your living room. The PS5 already fucking lives in your living room, so it's for just for taking a shit I imagine.
It actually works pretty well if you have fiber and where you're doing remote play also has fiber (or you're just at home but can't use the TV for whatever reason). That said, I rarely use remote play and generally just use my Switch or emulate something on Android instead when I can't use the PS5 for some reason.
