 PlayStation portable you have no idea how cool it is to have a handheld Sony device again in 2023 throw me back to PlayStation Vita, baby. I'm ready. I've been really excited for this We've had so many handhelds released recently. We just looked at the Steam Deck OLED I'm still messing around with the Lenovo go in other words the Nintendo switch pro and now we got this bad boy Arguably questionably least useful of any of those handhelds I just referenced because this if you don't know is PlayStation's dedicated handheld Streaming game device and not just streaming games from the cloud or something like X cloud or from PlayStation now or something like game pass. No, just directly from your console You need to have your PlayStation 5 on connected to the internet and playing the games and Stream that to the screen in your hands. A lot of people debated if this was even useful at that point What is the point of having something like that for me? I think it's cool that I can sit there and play my PlayStation games portably It'd be cool to play them in bed at night where I don't have my PlayStation 5 with me Or even if Kim wanted to watch TV and I wanted to play games now We can free up the TV space. I do see uses here, but my biggest concern this whole time has been How it's going to work my experience with streaming PlayStation games who a tablet device or a phone or any kind of Android has not been good Very laggy very bit crushed and just not a pleasant experience Let's hope this is good or at least better than that Let's see another thing a lot of people didn't like about this when it was revealed was the design They thought it looked really goofy. I kind of like it. I've always liked it Maybe that'll change when I get my hands on it. Oh, this is a cool neat little box All right, and there and and that and hold on a second and there all right I'm trying to do a cool reveal. There she is. I mean, I still like it It is a PlayStation 5 controller literally sliced in half with a screen in the middle There's not much to not like about it what I didn't notice until now though are these thumbsticks are smaller They're skinnier and smaller than the thumbsticks on the actual PlayStation controller. So it's a little different All right says hold down the power for a while. It says I can't see anything though. Should I take this off? Am I doing something immediately wrong? I don't know. Let me take a little peek behind here as I hold down the power It's telling me to hold it right or do I literally press here? That's not a button though, right? I'm so confused hold the power for a while to turn it on and there's a picture of a power Oh Back here. That's so confusing. I thought I was supposed to I don't know what I'm doing instructions unclear. There we go Alright, thank you. I swear. I'm not an idiot if it's your first time here things usually go Relatively smooth who am I lying? No, they don't what I'm really hoping for here out of this setup experience is that it'll just work It'll connect to my PlayStation hopefully on my network and I'll be able to boot up a game Instantly so this screen is an LCD screen They did not fork out for the OLED which is a shame. I'll be honest But right now it is looking really nice. It does strike me as a little weird though You know, we all have 4k TVs at this point most likely a lot of them are OLED So if you're trying to convince the player to move away from that to grow portable You'd think that you'd want to give them an equivalent experience on the go All right, we are connected and there is a download to update I should have said this but my PlayStation is behind me and I have spider-man ready. Let's see how long this takes You know all this tech these days. It's getting really cool But I still think the coolest tech I've experienced recently on my Witcher XR glasses I absolutely love them. I take them everywhere not just to bed Although it is really great to sit in bed and play my games on a giant 120 inch full HD screen to Starbucks for example the fact that I can just whip out the steam deck This is still the craziest thing they worked with Harman for the audio So they have this reverse sound field technology even when people are close to you They can't hear anything, but it's really loud for you There's a little dial inside the glasses so you can adjust it to your eyesight if it's too bright Where you're playing games? You can just touch this one button and it darkens the glasses for you How about you black it out with this shade cover? They have beat them up swans. That's so cool We actually designed this together. They asked me what colors I wanted. It's so cute They're doing their best deal ever on these glasses $50 off but that only lasts until Cyber Monday. So these shade covers are limited, but they are free If you go to Vitcher's website and order a pair of glasses and use my code in the link below Remember to add them to check out, but you'll get them for free. Yeah, they're super limited though So you got to be quick on these. Thank you Vitcher for sponsoring. Let's get back to the video While it's downloading this update, let me take you through some specs here If you're looking to pick one up, it's only 199 I say only because a lot of us expected this to be at least $300 and I think 200 is a pretty good deal from Sony. I'm surprised they went that low that screen is a big 8 inch LCD a little bigger than the Steam Deck OLED even 1080p at 60 FPS And then it has the haptic feedback and adaptive triggers that you would expect and that's really all we have to take a look at here Again, this thing is just streaming your games You might be thinking why I have so many options to stream games from my PlayStation In fact, I have one over here So I bought the official PlayStation I forget what it's called. This has been available for a while You connect it to your phone and then you can stream your PlayStation games from your PlayStation the same way that this can A little cheapy feeling it was $100, but it got the job done But I didn't like the quality of the streaming so I never actually used it What I love about the idea of this portal is that not only should it stream these games perfectly Because if it's not perfect, what are we doing here? But you have the official controller unlike here where you have this weird little guy You have the actual PlayStation controller So you'll get all of that adaptive feedback on games like god of war Portably on the go, which I think is really cool. This update's taking a long time I'm gonna do the wordle I've been stuck on 97% now for at least a minute Oh, there we go. It wasn't too bad. It just was a lot of waiting. Okay. I got a QR code. Cool Let's hope I'm actually signed into the app. Oh, I'm not. Oh, that's my problem Let me figure that out. I have to solve a puzzle Use the arrows to rotate the animal to face in the direction of the hand. Oh, I've never seen that one before Trust the new device. Yes, I do baby. You're all set. Is that it? Am I good to go a QR code and a login? Let's go connect to the PlayStation 5 Turn on PlayStation 5 from the ps5 home screen go to setting system remote play settings System remote play. Okay. That's already on. Oh open the portal. Where are we going connected to PlayStation 5? Mm-hmm. Let me in baby connecting to PlayStation 5. Let's go All right, here we go. Okay, so I am Ethanated in on my console I wanted to make sure it wasn't wi-fi because I know wi-fi streaming is terrible. Okay That's full volume. It's a bit quiet. Oh, it's going you can see it here and you can see it over there my 100% Save file. That's right. I got platinum. I'm a spidey man guy. Let's boot up this bad boy We are in a sizable amount of audio lag. Is there another way I can test audio than swinging? Okay, I take back sizable. It's just enough that I notice it, but it's not too bad I like that. I just got up and running immediately. I can definitely tell it's streaming, but it's not bad I mean it's going it's working. There is a I would say a decent amount of bit crush Which I think I'm using that correctly where it almost looks really low res But it's just because it's streaming like when you're watching a youtube video When it hasn't quite finished buffering in all the way and it's still a little low quality And it kind of makes you want to hit that little cog wheel on the settings and make sure it's set to 1080p And then once you do that you see the high quality kick in except here. It's just not kicking in I ain't gonna lie which is when I sat down to make this video I was really hoping to slam it out in a day You know be one of the first people on youtube to review the playstation portal Then the more I captured b-roll of this thing and had a bunch of connectivity issues and realized that it wasn't Anywhere close to what I wanted it to be. I knew I had to take more time with it I sat right here at my computer right next to me right here and recorded a bunch of gameplay Oh my god of war. Was it great? I thought this thing was a winner absolutely no input lag whatsoever crystal clear visuals I started to think that maybe spider-man just wasn't a good test as my first game I was getting sold on this thing at god of war So I decided to switch to final fantasy 16. It didn't work It was very bad both in cutscenes and gameplay. There was constant lag and I wouldn't even call this bit crush I would call this Yeah, what she said I tried taking it upstairs in my house And I couldn't get any kind of stable connection at all It really only worked the best when I was in my basement next to the playstation and the router Also, the first thing I noticed when I turned it on was the speakers. Remember that? Yeah, the speakers are horrible. They're tinny and they just don't sound very good And since this thing doesn't have any bluetooth That means you're stuck with either the playstation earbuds, which aren't out yet or you can plug in a wired headset Which is what I did But I gotta tell you those audio skips and glitches while you're playing as it stutters Is the most irritating And frustrating sound to have to deal with while trying to video game completely ruined my experience playing anything I've had the playstation portal now for a couple of days and I decided the best test would be to go to starbox and see if I can connect to my playstation from there So I had my backpack and I realized I got no way of transporting this thing It didn't come with a carry case. I guess I just have to be really careful with So as I expected on the starbox wi-fi, I can't even connect because there's like a pass-through page Where you have to log in and this can't do that. So I hot spotted to my iphone I have a really good connection and the new iphone 15 max pro so if any phone can do it It should be this one And while I can connect it's super bit crushed low latency and I can't really keep it connected for too long Oh, here we go again. This is my third attempt It says bad connection and it's just Crazy unplayable. It probably makes whatever I put on this screen for the thumbnail not clickbait Because this is this you're looking at that Uh, oh there it goes Yeah, I don't think this is doable at all at least not publicly Maybe at your grandma's house. I don't know. I also didn't realize that you can literally only stream games to this thing If you want to try streaming netflix from your playstation or any other kind of video or anything other than a video game That you have on your playstation It just straight up won't work yet. It won't allow you to do that limiting what this thing can do even more I can't help but think about the playstation vita, which was Able to play its own games with its own giant expansive library and was also able to remote play to the playstation I'm just kind of wishing this also had games. I could play on it I am very mixed on this because again when it was working like with god a war and at times with final fantasy It was amazing. It was my playstation 5 portably. I want to say on the go but You know in my basement on the go within 20 feet and that's something I might be able to recommend But at its worst or even at its medium It was literally unplayable So if it works 50 of the time, how can I recommend that to anybody? This is also on the best internet That america can provide. I have like a thousand down and a thousand up Yeah I got fiber. Oh, I have the best baby. You know, I'm I'm I'm wellmed. I would say it's definitely A thing it's a way of playing your playstation games Portably if you don't mind taking some hits to the performance and the visual fidelity everything else about it is great It's literally a controller with a screen in the middle I think 200 is a good price and if this is an item that is is for you then you then you will probably like it I don't think I really have too much more to say if the video just ends here I had nothing else to say like comment and subscribe