It’s awesome really. At this price, I can see myself buying this. I don’t play on the go anyways, either at home or at my parents.
The PlayStation fambase is kinda ridiculous because on the one hand they’re bothered by games being developed for the PS4 still, arguably downgrading them; while then wishing for an even worse handheld console and expecting devs would support it.
It would’ve caused awful fragmentation in the current ecosystem. Having your ps5 on the go is really the best they could’ve done.
Also, people complaining about latency but also complaining Bluetooth isn’t supported. Make up your mind. I’m happy for this new PlayStation link thing. For the people that don’t understand, it’s basically the 2.4ghz adapter that comes with every headset, being built into the hardware, as Xbox has had it for years. Not requiring you to need that dongle anymore. Having that also on the handheld is perfect for good quality, low latency audio.
The only thing I really don’t get is why you can’t connect to the ps premium streaming directly from the handheld. Wishful thinking it just wasn’t ready in time and will get added later, because connecting to a server would be cheaper, and faster if you’re far from home, than your actual console. Obviously it would also give the great benefit of having games at hand without installing, updating, etc.
But what is the difference between this new thing and just streaming on any mobile device I already own? I can only use it to stream PS5 from home, no app support, no browser, no nothing. So I’m supposed to pay 200€ just for doing one thing that I can already do, with devices that can do much more than just streaming- no thanks.
Was really disappointed the more I learned about this. And I’ll say it looks awful too, something an 8 year old would design. But, I don’t play my playstation nearly as much as I’d like simply because it’s not portable like my switch. Maybe this will be the kick I need to play my PS games more and for $200, it’s pretty affordable. Might as well give it a try.
You can just buy the backbone for 100 bucks and do exactly what this thing does on any mobile device. Or buy this clip for the controller that holds your phone on top of it for 20. I went with the backbone and I’m pretty happy with it.
