Does PS4 streaming work pretty well? I have thought about using the Remote Play app to try and at least play some of the slower-paced games in my backlog
PS4 streaming is fine for RPGs. I’d try to make it wired and only do it at home, but yeah, it’s totally fine. It’s just that the PS4 itself is real slow. If the game you’re wanting to stream is turn based, runs well on PS4, and can’t be run on your mobile device then I’d give it a go. You might need to upgrade your wifi or hardwire your PS4 to ethernet.
It should work on any laptop/phone w/ your PS4 controllers, so you can try out your setup before investing in anything.
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Marvelous has announced Armored Core at Home 2
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hi as someone stupid enough to own a not terrible phone, a Vita, a Steam Deck and an iPad whose main use is playing exploitive cash grabs meant to activate the lizard part of my brain responsible for liking gambling, I do not see the point of Portable Streaming PS5 Device
if you’re that hard up for a remote play solution, you can just get a controller-y thingamabob for your phone or setup Chiaki on the number of platforms it runs on.
like, there’s a goddamn Chiaki client for the Switch. you could buy a Switch now, jailbreak it, have a remote play client with buttons and shit and then also have a whole goddamn other system that plays games that aren’t Third Person Dad Simulators or Shareholder Mandated Live Service Game
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they literally sell a Playstation-branded Backbone controller for phones
and that thing’s a hundred bucks on top of however much you’re paying for your phone and that’s a saner option than buying PS5 Remote Play Handheld That We Will Abandon In A Year
fuck’s sake, Apple put in native Dualshock and Dualsense support in iOS, buy one of those and a kickstand or holder for your iPhone or iPad
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the Sony Q thing could be cool if
- it fails miserably
- i can get one for like 50 bucks in a year or two
i bet it launches at like $200-$250 lol. the dualsense alone is 70 USD, no way this is priced sanely
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this is like karmic retribution for all of us not buying enough Vitas
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triple post to say
the Sony Q does not support streaming. previously PSNow, now PS+ Premium Streaming. the Q can’t do it.
like… how can you fuck something up this bad?
i really do think the vita’s failure caused some permanent psychic damage at sony
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The most depressing scenario would be the Sony Q becoming a massive success due to Sony throwing all their support behind it, unlike what they did with the Vita and Vita/Playstation TV.
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i have an open mind, but no matter how hard i try, i just can’t imagine how this could ever happen, honestly. i’ve read a bunch of impressions on a bunch of game sites, and the reaction is nearly unison: who is the market for this? why would this ever be a better option than getting a Backbone and a phablet or something? or if you wanted a streaming device, why go with something that has no ability to… stream from anything other than your existing PS5?!?! including Sony’s recently revamped and rebranded streaming service!!! it makes no sense… the fact that it can’t even do PS+ Premium streaming is absolutely bonkers. it obviously won’t work with xCloud, or Amazon Luna, or GeForce Now, or Steam Link, either. Not even Moonlight, which a modded Vita can do. the dead-as-fuck Vita from 2011 will almost certainly still be a better buy than this crap unless it is miraculously less than $100… i don’t see that happening, either
it is literally a Sony Wii U, except at least for Nintendo’s massive failure of a console, the gamepad was included with the base SKU
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Oh, I totally agree. This thing is doomed to failure for product design reasons, whereas the vita and playstation tv were pretty good products that failed for other reasons.
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If we get Sony to internally develop one weird unique game for it I’ll consider it a success.
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The Q really looks like a fake photoshop of a portable game console that would have circulated around 2008 or so.
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I swear there was a meme about two halves of a PS4 controller taped either side of a Sony Bravia at one point
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The Backbone One doesn’t feel very good. It feels like playing with joycons. It’s fine, kind of obvious in hindsight, but it makes me wonder if a controller mount for my DS4 controllers would be better.
Edit: streaming is cool tho - especially in the hand vs. on a laptop or propped up tablet. Humanity is a good streaming game.
This Project Q talk has finally got me to try once again to see if I can do in-home streaming from my PS5 and my Steam PC. Sometimes it works pretty OK (I have both a Razer Kishi and a 8bitdo SN30 Pro with a phone grip). Sometimes it doesn’t. Looks like I might need better wifi.
At any rate, it’s a little bit too tiny on my phone (an iPhone SE, 4.7"; I think I need minimum 7, maybe 8")! I was thinking about getting a tablet instead. Is there any reason I couldn’t just get a like 4-year-old refurbed middle-grade Android tablet and slap one of those controller grip thingies on it? Like that’ll stream just about as well as a newer one, right?
A starship troopers game just came out a couple of weeks ago.
The most interesting thing about this Sony Q device is thinking about what modern PlayStation must be like internally that they are actually producing something as dumb as this.
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Did you forget E3 wasn’t happening? Me too. Missed the Meta Quest stream
Meta Quest! Yeah!
Next up is [checks notes] Guerilla Collective Online Showcase on Wednesday, then Geoff’s game show on Thursday.
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Still loads of cute frogs and middling indie homage. Not much to get here.
The one that most people actually bother to watch, live from California it’s Geoff. Starts in about an hour. Don’t read the chat, ever.
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