As a reminder, the PlayStation Portal, or Project Q, is (according to leaks) based on Android. It doesn’t run the games itself, it merely streams them from your PS5 and your handheld then serves as a controller with its own display.
I’m wondering why anyone would prefer that over simply using a regular Android phone with a good controller and the PS Remote Play app?
What a beautifully pointless device. The design of the device is legitimately futuristic, but other than that this is a device that is bound to fail. It’s a “what were they thinking?” kind of product.
Here’s what I hope: Sony cancels this device next year when no one buys it for Christmas this year. They clearance them all out for $100 and at that point the hacker/DIY community notices that the controller and screen and other components are worth way more than $100 so someone develops some kind of $50 add on that let’s you actually run software on it directly (bypassing the stupid streaming BS). Basically turning it into a fancy Android handheld.
For those who might think that is far fetched, just remember what happened with the HP Touchpad all those years ago.
This is exactly what I’m hoping for. This looks like a kickass emulation device once it’s jailbroken.
Exactly. The big issue is the fact that it doesn’t technically do any processing on-device and simply does streaming. So if this ever gets jailbroken, it will need to involve more than just software since you’d need something with a reasonably fast CPU to run that software.
I’m excited to see this product fail!
Adding moonlight support for PC streaming would be cool. And for $100 I would buy this just for shits.
For the device to do anything near 1080p with as little latency as possible, the device MUST have a dedicated graphics chip, probably Mediatek or, hopefully, Snapdragon. Also hopefully, it might have some kind of on-board storage, at least for AndroidOS + updates, hopefully a MicroSD port for media sharing. With all of this in place, turning a stream-only device into a regular Android one is pretty much trivial.
I think you mean rooted. It’s Android based.
“rooted” and “jailbreak” are exactly the same procedure: obtain root access to low level hardware. The only difference is Apple fans trying to be different.
I know they do the same thing, lol. But I’ve never heard someone say they’re going to jailbreak their Android. It’s just semantics.
They even mean the same thing technically! The “jail” specifically refers to a jailed shell, as BSD jail, so both jailbreaking and rooting (as in Unix root) both quite literally mean the same thing, privilege escalation.
Depends what SOC is in it. Since it’s only streaming video it’s probably a pretty shitty one that wouldn’t emulate much beyond 16 bit.
I got the TouchPad on its fire sale. Amazing tablet. WebOS wasn’t exactly terrible on it, but Android was killer. Kept it for many years after.
WebOS was awesome. It was more slick all those years ago than Android is now.