Loving my portal now with the update. They also fixed the micro stutter issues and the connection issues with the PS5 it is a lot stronger. It finally works as it should have still need a premium Plus subscription to take advantage of the streaming service
@@spartan0083 after you update your software, it's going to ask you if you want to use gaming streaming service and you have to turn it on then it will restart your portal and you should be good to go
Even before the update ps portal was good because it was intended for people who have kids or wives that occupy the TV or for people who want to chill in bed and play. That’s the reason why it sold so well even before the update.
Introducing a new PlayStation Portal inspired by the versatility of the Nintendo Switch or a dedicated gaming phone could be a significant advancement in portable gaming. This device would allow users to download games for offline play, making it an ideal companion for travelers. Imagine enjoying a seamless gaming experience on the go, similar to playing on a PSP, especially in scenarios where internet connectivity is unreliable or completely absent. Many travelers face challenges with poor mobile data service or lack of access to Wi-Fi, which makes offline gaming a highly desirable feature. A PlayStation Portal designed with these considerations in mind would not only enhance user experience but also expand the audience for portable gaming solutions.
Yeh, you can pause at anytime. You have to pay per month....would be could if you could pause at any time though and use up the days that you paid for later.
Just one important note for our great Troy. You don't need to put your PS5 back to rest mode for the portal to be able to connect to it. Turning it on is enough.
@@WhatGear Naw when it comes to the console you only supposed to turn it off when you need to unplug it. Normally you supposed to keep it in rest mode. In rest mode doing the remote play its supposed to be smart enough to know not to turn your tv on. Like it normally knows the difference when its being used for remote play or when someone is on the console. Unless there is something funky going on with your tv's hdmi cec settings
Great video. I bought this yesterday for my son for Christmas. I only found out about it about a month ago, didn't even know it existed, and only knew that it connected to the playstaion 5 itself. So, to find out it's just had a new updated this has made it much better. My son will love this. What would you rate the playstaion portal to all the other hand held device out there 👍🏻
It's definitely the most comfortable & I think the controllers are the best out there. It's tricky to say that it's the best handheld, as it doesn't have onboard storage. If it did, and if it could play offline...it would be a top competitor in my opinion.
@KyleGuitarLife I really hope so. The PSP back in the day was such a beast. I never actually got to own a Vita unfortunately but I head lots of good things about it. If they do release one. There's a few things they have to do. Allow it to be plugged into a big screen, like the Nintendo switch. use an OLED 120hz display. Allow for interchangeable batteries & memory. WiFi 6 connectivity & mobile SIM. And the option to pair a dual sense wirelessy when playing on TV. If they do that it will be a winner🏆
Anyone else’s game catalog just simply not loading after update? Once I click beta option it says “loading game catalog”. The text saying that goes away and all I see is the blue circle with the theme playing in the background. I 100% have PlayStation premium, restarted the system and even updated my actual ps5 no luck so far with this update. Slightly disappointed
@brandonjennings18 same here. I was testing it at work with it hooked up to my phone hotspot and the catalog doesn't load. I'm hoping this is just first day jitters and it will work soon
It was working for me yesterday but now it is not showing the catalogue. I've been trying to get it to work for like the past hour or seems and I've got nothing. Even contacted support and still nothing
I'm sticking with my switch. atleast the game I paid for is actually mine and is actually downloaded and played locally. this is a streaming device. when the company/streaming service shuts down permanently, what happens to your games? lol.
It is in beta mode so only 120 games at the moment. They did mention ps3 and ps4 games not available now but i think once they open this up its insane value for money! Cheapest way to get into a new handheld gaming with insane quality games. :).
I have a feeling they will change it up eventually. Currently with the PS+ Catalog they update it every month by adding new games and removing others. I am not sure if they have different plans for the portal but I would assume it will follow how PS+ works now.
Gang...it works now but at one point I kept getting a message saying too many streams or something like that so it wouldn't let me play any of the network games...had to connect to my p5...and yh it's all good still...this is actually a cold lil device 😂
I just bought a PlayStation portal literally less than an hour ago saying this news is exciting. If I wanted to play on the go with the games on my PlayStation do I have to have my TV on while I’m not at home?
Man they need to hurry up with dragon Ball z sparkle Black ops 6, warzone The rest of the year new tomb raider games there's so many other titles they need to hurry up like Gundam breaker 4
Here's the question though. Do I still need a PS5 to set up my portal or can I just do the set up through my phone or device? Cuz I know that it really didn't matter just to get into the device and set it up u needed a PS5 console. I heard that people who don't have a PS5 still couldn't use this because u needed one to set it up. Also Im just asking cuz I dont wanna grab one and have to go through some crap to get the device itself set up
yes. I think As long as yall have 2 separate accounts. He log in to his own account on ps5 & you have your account on portal. I have ps5 & portal as well but it's just me. So I can't test it out. Unless I make a fake account but that's unnecessary in my case. But I think u should try it
I know its the beta. But right now its not loading the game catalog. It's just showing the blue circle and that's it. That's why sony we want a real fkn handheld.
I hope you know you can put your ps5 into rest mode through the Ps Portal I unless I heard that segment wrong Oh nvm , my TV stays off when I use the portal shockingly
Nothing is owned... This handheld and all digital-only consoles will be nearly worthless in the future--the opposite of how retro collecting works today with extreme popularity.
@@YoursInYeshua I tell this to everyone that buys their stuff digitally. These companies always make it harder and harder for you to actually own their product.
@StephenHowell-o8j If I have to fly to Chicago for 3 days I can take this with me and stream my Premium library. It's not a scam unless you don't use what you're paying for.
You have to make sure it’s updated and them go to settings and enable cloud play it’ll ask you to upgrade to PlayStation plus premium because that is the only one that works and then you will have to believe sign out and sign back in. But mine is not working so you might have a bit of trouble
@@matthewhibbard9807 no problem man but sometimes it takes a couple seconds just remember it’s the bata so it will get better and you do need a good connection for it to work but good luck man
Another basic update. They had a device like this come out an it failed miserably. Most people dont buy these to use with sn internet connection lol they buy it because they want to Play on the go. This only works if you wanna buy wifi on a plane or have a long layover at rhe airport but id rather just use my laptop at rhat point. Makes way more sense to get s onexplayer, steamdeck or legion pro at this point. An 160 bucks a year? Naw
I've tried several Call of Duties on the portal and can say it's defiantly playable. The delay is there with it being streamed to the Portal but does not ruin your gameplay. I find it works a lot better with Zombies over online multiplayer due to needing to have a quick reaction time online and the portal having that millisecond delay.
Considering the Switch has onboard storage, a microSD card slot, and a larger catalog of games people actually want to play, yeah, I guess I can see that.
@Cyko.. And We can use cartridges on Switch but we can't do any of that with the portal. I really hope the portal gets some hardware mods that add those things to the portal
I bought a switch when it came out and only smash bros with it. I still only have smash on it and ive definitely gotten my moneys worth even with one game hahaha. I just picked up a portal on sale for black friday and dont own a ps5 literally for the ps5 exclusives lol
Loving my portal now with the update. They also fixed the micro stutter issues and the connection issues with the PS5 it is a lot stronger. It finally works as it should have still need a premium Plus subscription to take advantage of the streaming service
@@SeriousClownLOL yes ! There is no more micro stutter ! I was so freeeking happy !
I still can’t use mine without the PS5 and I have PS Plus premium
@@spartan0083 after you update your software, it's going to ask you if you want to use gaming streaming service and you have to turn it on then it will restart your portal and you should be good to go
Even before the update ps portal was good because it was intended for people who have kids or wives that occupy the TV or for people who want to chill in bed and play. That’s the reason why it sold so well even before the update.
@@prestigehunter9729 now you play anywhere you go is icing on the 🍰
Introducing a new PlayStation Portal inspired by the versatility of the Nintendo Switch or a dedicated gaming phone could be a significant advancement in portable gaming. This device would allow users to download games for offline play, making it an ideal companion for travelers.
Imagine enjoying a seamless gaming experience on the go, similar to playing on a PSP, especially in scenarios where internet connectivity is unreliable or completely absent. Many travelers face challenges with poor mobile data service or lack of access to Wi-Fi, which makes offline gaming a highly desirable feature. A PlayStation Portal designed with these considerations in mind would not only enhance user experience but also expand the audience for portable gaming solutions.
Great video! How to pause subscription?? Or were you thinking of using it for one month and then skipping the service for the next?
Yeh, you can pause at anytime. You have to pay per month....would be could if you could pause at any time though and use up the days that you paid for later.
Just one important note for our great Troy. You don't need to put your PS5 back to rest mode for the portal to be able to connect to it. Turning it on is enough.
Yes, but the problem is it wakes my TV when it boots up...and I'm worried about screen burn in as it's OLED
@@WhatGear Naw when it comes to the console you only supposed to turn it off when you need to unplug it. Normally you supposed to keep it in rest mode. In rest mode doing the remote play its supposed to be smart enough to know not to turn your tv on. Like it normally knows the difference when its being used for remote play or when someone is on the console. Unless there is something funky going on with your tv's hdmi cec settings
@@WhatGear BJ is correct, normally you should always leave it in rest mode. And when turning on just for remote play it should not turn on your TV.
@@HunBela I hear you...but sometime when I rage quit it's impossible to avoid 😂
@@WhatGear I see. I can understand that. And that's where single player games come in.
Great video. I bought this yesterday for my son for Christmas. I only found out about it about a month ago, didn't even know it existed, and only knew that it connected to the playstaion 5 itself. So, to find out it's just had a new updated this has made it much better. My son will love this. What would you rate the playstaion portal to all the other hand held device out there 👍🏻
It's definitely the most comfortable & I think the controllers are the best out there. It's tricky to say that it's the best handheld, as it doesn't have onboard storage. If it did, and if it could play offline...it would be a top competitor in my opinion.
@@WhatGear do you think Sony will ever release a new dedicated handheld or just stick with the portal?
@KyleGuitarLife I really hope so. The PSP back in the day was such a beast. I never actually got to own a Vita unfortunately but I head lots of good things about it.
If they do release one. There's a few things they have to do. Allow it to be plugged into a big screen, like the Nintendo switch. use an OLED 120hz display. Allow for interchangeable batteries & memory. WiFi 6 connectivity & mobile SIM. And the option to pair a dual sense wirelessy when playing on TV.
If they do that it will be a winner🏆
Anyone else’s game catalog just simply not loading after update? Once I click beta option it says “loading game catalog”. The text saying that goes away and all I see is the blue circle with the theme playing in the background. I 100% have PlayStation premium, restarted the system and even updated my actual ps5 no luck so far with this update. Slightly disappointed
@@brandonjennings18 same
I think maybe their servers might be getting overwhelmed since they just dropped the update...
@@WhatGear I hope 🤞, I was hoping to take a nice number 2 while catching up on some titles
@brandonjennings18 same here. I was testing it at work with it hooked up to my phone hotspot and the catalog doesn't load. I'm hoping this is just first day jitters and it will work soon
It was working for me yesterday but now it is not showing the catalogue. I've been trying to get it to work for like the past hour or seems and I've got nothing. Even contacted support and still nothing
I'm sticking with my switch. atleast the game I paid for is actually mine and is actually downloaded and played locally. this is a streaming device. when the company/streaming service shuts down permanently, what happens to your games? lol.
trying blood omen but i cant start it. Says press start to play but where is the damn start button in the portal
@@BstizzyBelieves have you tried touching the in screen touchpad on the portal?
are the games in the catalogue permanent and will continue to grow or will they change some games in it every month?
It is in beta mode so only 120 games at the moment. They did mention ps3 and ps4 games not available now but i think once they open this up its insane value for money! Cheapest way to get into a new handheld gaming with insane quality games. :).
I have a feeling they will change it up eventually. Currently with the PS+ Catalog they update it every month by adding new games and removing others. I am not sure if they have different plans for the portal but I would assume it will follow how PS+ works now.
Watching from Canada,
Does the games include NBA 2k25?
Gang...it works now but at one point I kept getting a message saying too many streams or something like that so it wouldn't let me play any of the network games...had to connect to my p5...and yh it's all good still...this is actually a cold lil device 😂
I just brought ps5 825gb and now I see this update
sorry 😂
If it's any consolation the library of games is good but very small. So it's not a full replacement for PS5 yet.
I just bought a PlayStation portal literally less than an hour ago saying this news is exciting. If I wanted to play on the go with the games on my PlayStation do I have to have my TV on while I’m not at home?
@@MileHigh-gd6vf no but your PlayStation has to be on sleep mode
No everything can be off. Just make sure before you leave you set your ps5 to awaken while in restmode
Only $160 a year to rent games. Thank you, sir. May I have another?
@@Cyko.. Less than the price of buying 3 full priced ps5 games. Sounds like a steal to me.
@@SickJigg They are stealing from you. You got that right.
Pretty stupid when they have devices you can just get the games an actual own an play with out s connection lol
mordern gaming is expensive, and that doesn't cost that much compared to gamepass ultimate
@Cyko.. I mean there's 30% off currently so it's 110 and 900 games for a full year for $9 a month and you think that's bad? Crazy 🤣
Man they need to hurry up with dragon Ball z sparkle Black ops 6, warzone The rest of the year new tomb raider games there's so many other titles they need to hurry up like Gundam breaker 4
Just ordered one. Also Just got a PS5 Pro too. Haven’t had a a PlayStation in a long time.
So if I buy this without a PS5 console, can I still mirror or project its screen on to a TV?
No
So we only need to avail a cloud storage. Not bad.
Here's the question though. Do I still need a PS5 to set up my portal or can I just do the set up through my phone or device? Cuz I know that it really didn't matter just to get into the device and set it up u needed a PS5 console. I heard that people who don't have a PS5 still couldn't use this because u needed one to set it up. Also Im just asking cuz I dont wanna grab one and have to go through some crap to get the device itself set up
You would just have to create a PSN account and log into the portal with same information
@Cgarga_96 oh okie fucking awesome!!
Probably a dumb question, but I wanted this. My son has ps5. Now can I play this while he’s playing his console? I know before you couldn’t
yes. I think As long as yall have 2 separate accounts. He log in to his own account on ps5 & you have your account on portal. I have ps5 & portal as well but it's just me. So I can't test it out. Unless I make a fake account but that's unnecessary in my case. But I think u should try it
Yea, you need a PSplus pre.ium account
I can’t get my death stranding data to go from PS5 to portal so I had to restart the whole game on my portal
Have you backed up your save data on your console to the cloud
It's not working for me at all
@@HanginWithHellsing same
@brandonjennings18 i heard it was working earlier today, but. I think they should do more testing on it before anything else
I know its the beta. But right now its not loading the game catalog. It's just showing the blue circle and that's it. That's why sony we want a real fkn handheld.
I hope you know you can put your ps5 into rest mode through the Ps Portal
I unless I heard that segment wrong
Oh nvm , my TV stays off when I use the portal shockingly
I have ps plus extra subscription can i do cloud gaming?
Yoo.. how to do that 4:34
"Pause at any time"
So some can play on device portal a game (spiderman ) from cloud and a friend so can play on the playstation 5 ( batman) at the same time ??????
Yes because it's the cloud not the actual PlayStation
2:52 Sony and PC Exclusives
Nothing is owned... This handheld and all digital-only consoles will be nearly worthless in the future--the opposite of how retro collecting works today with extreme popularity.
@@YoursInYeshua I tell this to everyone that buys their stuff digitally. These companies always make it harder and harder for you to actually own their product.
Scam just stream from the console don't pay for a membership with a garbage library.
@StephenHowell-o8j If I have to fly to Chicago for 3 days I can take this with me and stream my Premium library. It's not a scam unless you don't use what you're paying for.
It's still useless unless you paying £20 a month 😂😢😅
@@binay9499 allow the company make some money lol
That cloud streaming option doesn’t show up on mine.
You have to make sure it’s updated and them go to settings and enable cloud play it’ll ask you to upgrade to PlayStation plus premium because that is the only one that works and then you will have to believe sign out and sign back in. But mine is not working so you might have a bit of trouble
@ thanks for the info. Appreciate it. I have premium, so I’ll try the settings.
@@matthewhibbard9807 no problem man but sometimes it takes a couple seconds just remember it’s the bata so it will get better and you do need a good connection for it to work but good luck man
Another basic update. They had a device like this come out an it failed miserably. Most people dont buy these to use with sn internet connection lol they buy it because they want to Play on the go. This only works if you wanna buy wifi on a plane or have a long layover at rhe airport but id rather just use my laptop at rhat point. Makes way more sense to get s onexplayer, steamdeck or legion pro at this point. An 160 bucks a year? Naw
yet yall spend like $600 yearly buying the physical/digital games instead of a using a sub service
Has anyone tried playing bo6 on the portal ? If so how’s the lag and experience. Is it playable as a decent substitute for a monitor.
I've tried several Call of Duties on the portal and can say it's defiantly playable. The delay is there with it being streamed to the Portal but does not ruin your gameplay. I find it works a lot better with Zombies over online multiplayer due to needing to have a quick reaction time online and the portal having that millisecond delay.
@ with this new update is the delay the same or has it been improved ?
Not working on UAE accounts ,🤬
So now everybody is just going to buy the ps Portal 😂 nobody is going to buy a ps5 any more. Good move for us stupid move for the company
The Switch is better than the Portal.
Considering the Switch has onboard storage, a microSD card slot, and a larger catalog of games people actually want to play, yeah, I guess I can see that.
@Cyko.. And We can use cartridges on Switch but we can't do any of that with the portal. I really hope the portal gets some hardware mods that add those things to the portal
I could careless about cartridges the future is digital
@krakenNation Fuck the all digital future. They're already taking digital games that we paid for & you say you don't care about cartridges you crazy
I bought a switch when it came out and only smash bros with it. I still only have smash on it and ive definitely gotten my moneys worth even with one game hahaha. I just picked up a portal on sale for black friday and dont own a ps5 literally for the ps5 exclusives lol
Barbados
Gta5?
Is call of duty 6 already on there or not yet?
Still trash system
Get better wifi bud
Сони изобрела стимлинк😅😅😅
Did they? If thats true ....I didn't know that