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submitted 11 months ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/games@lemmy.world

PlayStation Portal is out but trying to find one is about as arduous as trying to buy a PS5 in late 2020.

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[-] ollie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 11 months ago
[-] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I’d say low supply but higher than expected demand. If it were low demand, people wouldn’t be having a problem getting one.

[-] Yamayo@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

Artificial scarcity is a thing.

[-] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but Sony isn’t reaping the rewards for it, scalpers are. Artificial scarcity would make sense if Sony were jacking up their prices, but they’re not the ones doing that.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago

Uhh, 200$ for a piece of junk sounds a lot like a lot to me, and enough to be considered "jacked".

[-] echo64@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I know people want to implicitly shit on this thing because they don't personally want one, and I guess they don't want other people to enjoy them, but come on, this is silly. You know none of that. You just wish it was that.

Honestly, this place was great for a while, but it's very rapidly devolving into the vapid reddit style comments you see all over that place.

[-] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 11 months ago

I don't know if that's a fair criticism. I think I first saw something about this thing yesterday. Not much of a marketing push. I had to look it up to see what the heck it is. It seems to have a very specific and narrow use case. I'm sure it's a nice option for people with that need and works well enough, but it's not exactly something the masses are clamoring for. There's similar tech out there and they are sort of niche products. I don't expect this thing to be selling like hotcakes.

[-] TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

I pre-ordered mine back in September. Those of us who game from multiple rooms in their house this thing is amazing. Or those who have to share a TV with people who don’t use the PS5 connected to it.

[-] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

I don't have any generation PlayStation so I don't have a dog in this fight. That being said:

I completely understand. I've got a gaming rig in one room, stream to mini PCs set up as steam consoles in other rooms, and have a Steam Deck. I can play anywhere in my house. I never need to worry whether someone else is using a TV.

If it works for your case, I'm happy for you!

[-] TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Yup, and that’s the exact use case for the Portal.

[-] money_loo@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Naw their criticisms are extremely fair.

When this thing was first announced it was met with mostly people all over going “what’s the point of this thing, nobody is going to buy such a useless thing when they can just play on their phone or some adapter” etc.

Then when the pre-orders where announced to be selling out, it didn’t shift to “people want this thing”, they just pivoted to “they are just lying to hype it up”

And now that it’s sold out everywhere, they have no choice but to either admit it was wanted and they were wrong, or just keep going with the idea that, no, it’s everyone else that is wrong.

[-] Centillionaire@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

Selling out doesn’t mean anything. Let’s see some real sales figures.

[-] money_loo@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago
[-] phillaholic@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I can personally vouch for 1

[-] echo64@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Sure, but the narrative in this thread is assuming that it muuust have been low units for low sales based on nothing. That is what I was critizing. The people here and the quality of the comments.

[-] Centillionaire@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Less than 10% of PS5 owners buy this. It is a screen with a controller that can only be used to play your PS5 with when you are at home for $199.

[-] phillaholic@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

4 Million units ain’t bad

[-] AnonTwo@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

That's not a reddit thing though. People make one-offish comments everywhere. Maybe not in your inner circle specifically but in general i've seen a lot of forums and chat rooms growing up that are like that.

[-] echo64@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

sure, it was better here about it until recently, the quality of the community posts here has dropped dramatically in the past month

[-] ShunkW@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago

I feel like I just heard about this device 2 days ago. They didn't seem to market it very hard.

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I heard about it for the first time when I saw this post/article today.

[-] npaladin2000@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

Do they realize this is just a PS5 remote terminal and nothing else?

[-] echo64@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

yes, that is what i want. I've wanted for years. no using my phone or a tablet isn't a good experience to answer the next comment.

[-] histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

may I ask how is a phone or tablet not a good experience I've slapped a controller to my phone to do it before and have had a great experience

[-] echo64@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

if you like it great good for you, I don't though. I don't want to play games on a frakentablet with accessories, not local games, not streamed games. I just want a thing that is put together by itself, is totally solid and doesn't need me to attach/detach things from it as it changes its use

if i had an android tablet that played switch games if i just have this controller attachment that lets me use some third party controls I wouldn't enjoy it, I would enjoy a nintendo switch by itself.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

It's a PS U (wii u wannabe).

[-] criticalthreshold@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

So this is like if the Switch charged you an extra $200 for the hand-held part?

This will be either hugely successful or will die an awful death and develop a PS Vita cult following.

[-] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 11 months ago

There won't be a cult because this is no standalone device you can hack or play games on without a PS5.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Wasn't based on Android? I mean... Somebody could eventually run something on there not big games that's for sure.

[-] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

Even if it's android, the hardware is most likely not made for running games. You can buy android devices for emulation or indie games for way less money.

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Of course but my point was that it will probably be "hacked" by someone.

[-] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 8 points 11 months ago

This is just an Nvidia Shield - right?

[-] Sabin10@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago

No, that would mean it can be used on it's own. It's literally a dumb terminal for the ps5 and nothing more.

More like the Wii-U gamepad I think.

[-] Pacmanlives@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Low demand product and are creating hype going into the holidays. I wish this was another PSP or Vita both of which I bought at release but this is not it. If I could play my PS5 games not streaming that would be amazing but it’s a streaming device that is needs WiFi connectivity. I am not expecting PS5 level of performance out of it based on the size and cost of this product. I really wonder who their target audience is and what market research they used for this one!

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

How long you think it will take before we start seeing people posting pictures with the controller broken off, that doesn't look very sturdy when you're raging at someone.

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