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by ejj28 854 days ago
The GCloud and the Razer Edge are both significantly more expensive than the PS Portal if I recall correctly though. The Abxylute does seem similar in price, although I'm guessing the PS Portal likely has better controls (being essentially a Dualsense split in half) and maybe a better screen.

Also yeah, Steam Link would work too but Moonlight/Sunshine generally seems to work better.
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rcarmo 854 days ago
You can get second-hand G Cloud devices on eBay without a lot of trouble - that's what I did, and it was pretty cheap considering the excellent screen: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/02/03/2000
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rcarmo 854 days ago
Why the downvote? This is completely factual and on point.
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solardev 854 days ago
Times like these, I wish we had informational modifiers to the downvotes and upvotes, like Slashdot's "+1 Insightful" or "-1 Offtopic", etc.

Sometimes I wonder if there's just random vote fuzzing going on too, lol, whether by actual bots or just some sort of obfuscation algorithm. Some of my posts go up or down mere seconds after posting, seemingly too quick for anyone to read... shrug.

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solardev 854 days ago
I see. Yeah, $200 seems like a great price point for that device and build quality. Too bad it's locked to PS games! Just Sony being Sony, sigh.
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yurishimo 854 days ago
It doesn't even play games though; it streams them from your console over wifi.
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solardev 854 days ago
So's the GCloud, and I paid like $250 for that. At least the PS Portal has better ergonomics, and maybe the screen is nicer too, hard to tell from the pictures.
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ErneX 854 days ago
It’s a streaming device to play the games from your PS5 remotely.

Just an accessory.

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solardev 854 days ago
Right, which is why it's a bummer (not that it doesn't play games locally, but that it doesn't even work with other streaming services like GeForce Now, GamePass/xCloud, Shadow, etc.).

The "streaming only handheld" isn't uncommon anymore (like in the GP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39436797), but most of those are service-agnostic and let you pick where you want to stream from. The Portal is locked to PS, as far as I can tell... not sure if it even supports PSNow (Sony's cloud streaming solution)?

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