Sony Sony announces PlayStation Portal streaming handheld, update: "Impressive Hardware But Is Remote Play Itself Good Enough?" (Digital Foundry technical review)

[best3444]

4 minutes ago, Biggie said:

You went from disliking handheld gaming to wanting to do it exclusively. 

 

Well nothing was as powerful and as nice as an OLED deck. I hated handhelds because the screen was always to small and the graphics weren't good/barely could make things out.

 

Now I have a PC in hand and it's incredible. 

[DarkStar189]

I forgot to update that my Portal did finally show up and I’ve been using it exclusively in bed a few nights a week. Just like I had hoped, it is a great handheld to play your singleplayer games.  The connection has never been laggy feeling. Games look great. The screen can be very bright and colorful, especially in a dark room.  Any fast paced multiplayer games though….no way. I have close to 1,000 hours into Rocket League so the first thing I did was load that up. All I can say is ewww no way. Any game where you are multitasking with a lot of movement feels bad. Same goes for Modern Warfare 3. Like if you go to sprint, slide, aim and shoot really fast it just can’t seem to keep up. MW3 is playable if you move at a slower pace though. Definitely not ideal.
I’m still happy with the purchase. I played through some of the first Alan Wake. It runs buttery smooth and the flashlight looks good shining it around. Then I played most of that free Silent Hill game that came out a few weeks ago(hated the game but it ran and looked cool). Only nitpick I have is in a quiet room, the vibration and especially haptic triggers can sound annoying.  I ended up just disabling those and I don’t even notice. The haptic triggers can have a real clackity sound to them.  Battery life has been great. I’ll definitely continue to use the Portal. I’m just using some junky wired earbuds right now for sound. I had preordered the new pulse elite headphones that come out this month. Really excited to get those and pair them up with this.

[Biggie]

Are you talking about the ones that go inside your ears?

[Brian]

PlayStation Pulse Elite Review - IGN

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Sony's new PlayStation Pulse Elite wireless gaming headset is worthy of the name, with excellent sound, comfort, and a few other nice features like AI-based noise rejection and the...

Those new headphones look weird af when they are on someone’s head.  

I am not digging the PS5 design approach from Sony. Hope PS6 is more normal

[DarkStar189]

44 minutes ago, Biggie said:

Are you talking about the ones that go inside your ears?

The earbuds are already out for like $199. The Pulse Elite are a normal headset for $149. I’m interested in these “planar magnetic drivers” they use for sound.I think if I remember correctly, Sony bought a company called Audeze and they are bringing some of their tech to Sony’s gaming headsets and earbuds. Supposed to sound pretty good.

[DarkStar189]

44 minutes ago, Brian said:

PlayStation Pulse Elite Review - IGN

WWW.IGN.COM

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Sony's new PlayStation Pulse Elite wireless gaming headset is worthy of the name, with excellent sound, comfort, and a few other nice features like AI-based noise rejection and the...

Those new headphones look weird af when they are on someone’s head.  

I am not digging the PS5 design approach from Sony. Hope PS6 is more normal

Oh wow they do look weird on the head.

[Biggie]

Just now, DarkStar189 said:

The earbuds are already out for like $199. The Pulse Elite are a normal headset for $149. I’m interested in these “planar magnetic drivers” they use for sound.I think if I remember correctly, Sony bought a company called Audeze and they are bringing some of their tech to Sony’s gaming headsets and earbuds. Supposed to sound pretty good.

let us know

[Keyser_Soze]