• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
    121·
    2 months ago

    Even if it’s priced too highly, the PS5 Pro will probably sell pretty well. The Playstation Portal is very overpriced for what it is, and yet it’s sold very well. There’s a lot of Playstation fans with money to burn apparently.

    • Erasmus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      The whole reason I bought my Steamdeck was because I couldn’t get the Portal (thanks to scalpers).

      Now I hardly ever turn the PS5 on because I am playing tons of games on Steam instead. When I do I am usually running something over my LAN via Chiaki to my Deck so others in my house can watch TV.

    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      2 months ago

      I won’t buy a portal. I probably would have bought a “PS4 in portal form factor” for twice the price, but streaming isn’t worth it.

      But I have a friend who did, and have had my hands on it, and it is a genuinely really high quality implementation of the mediocre concept.

      • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
        41·
        2 months ago

        I probably would have bought a “PS4 in portal form factor” for twice the price, but streaming isn’t worth it.

        Which brings us back to the Steam Deck, which can also stream PS5 games like the portal, except in HDR (if you have the OLED).

        • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          2 months ago

          It would be a handheld console that would play their console library. They’d beat the Steam Deck’s sales volume as fast as they could manufacture them. Also, the Steam deck doesn’t do the triggers, which is a meaningful loss in plenty of PS5 games.

          My actual point, though, was that the build quality for the price is really good.