1
00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:05,839
if you were expecting me to jump on the hate bandwagon for this thing you're

2
00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:09,719
going to end up sorely disappointed I do have problems with the PlayStation

3
00:00:07,759 --> 00:00:13,000
portal but I've been a believer in remote game streaming for as long as

4
00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:17,720
some of you have been alive starting with the NVIDIA shield no not that one

5
00:00:15,639 --> 00:00:22,920
the handheld one that everyone including NVIDIA seems to have forgotten about I

6
00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:27,679
played Tomb Raider 2013 start to finish on that thing infant sun in lap without

7
00:00:25,199 --> 00:00:33,360
ever touching my keyboard and mouse it was my portal to gaming at a time when I

8
00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:38,960
otherwise couldn't make time for it so look if you're not psyched for this

9
00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:40,800
thing I get it but I am or at least I

10
00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:45,000
will be if Sony has ironed out all the troubleshooting nonsense that has made

11
00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:50,719
this technology kind of inaccessible for the average gamer setup challenge begins

12
00:00:48,039 --> 00:00:55,199
now uh Power English does anyone know the Wi-Fi

13
00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:58,760
password thank you for the ortholinear keyboard just kidding I

14
00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:05,479
agree approve select PS5 allow

15
00:01:03,039 --> 00:01:11,840
connection to PS5 settings system remote play and turn on remote play

16
00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:18,560
settings system oh it was on it was I hit X to

17
00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:20,040
connect oh wait oh okay it worked

18
00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:24,600
overall not as smooth as it could have been not a huge fan of that tiny press X

19
00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:29,200
to continue indicator in the bottom left but we're still completely set up and

20
00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:32,439
ready to game in just 3 and 1/2 minutes that's not bad

21
00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:37,560
now let's see how fast we can segue to our sponsor ug green their Black Friday

22
00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:43,000
sale is on now with up to 50% off products like the magnetic 10,000

23
00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:45,240
milliamp battery Bank oh my goodness

24
00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:48,840
that's a lot check it out at the link below I'm definitely picking up on a

25
00:01:47,159 --> 00:01:53,399
little bit of a delay but Hollow night's a pretty unforgiving game as far as that

26
00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:59,640
goes and this is not bad what are we looking at 150 milliseconds 150

27
00:01:56,119 --> 00:02:02,320
milliseconds and that is complete chain

28
00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:06,000
yes that is very usable there's definitely some banding and blocking

29
00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:11,200
particularly when things get really busy on screen you've got smoke or lots of

30
00:02:08,959 --> 00:02:17,000
particle effects flying around but the display looks great super sharp very

31
00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:20,480
usable don't judge the portal based on how I'm doing right now I have only

32
00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:25,840
played like an hour and a bit of this game and the save is much deeper in than

33
00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:28,599
I thought visually this is a super busy

34
00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:31,760
game with really Lush environments I am expecting it to be oh

35
00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:38,519
a lot less visual artifact than I was

36
00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:41,680
expecting once again particle effects and smoke going to be a bit of a

37
00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:46,959
struggle but anything reasonably close to you doesn't look bad at all I'm also

38
00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:51,440
a little surprised at how Okay the text looks especially when the menu looked so

39
00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:54,879
bad when it first loaded up oh yeah know that seems fine now there's no question

40
00:02:53,560 --> 00:03:00,360
the game is playable does it have a performance mode though favorite performance let's see how that

41
00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:07,280
feels oh yeah that's more like it this is 100%

42
00:03:04,920 --> 00:03:13,400
how I play this wow nice Sound Stage where are

43
00:03:09,959 --> 00:03:16,360
these speakers oh they're top top firing

44
00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:21,599
woo man this one looks particularly okay maybe it helps that

45
00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:25,959
it's at night definitely managing to notice some visual anomalies with all

46
00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:30,319
these Bright Lights moving around on screen kind of like confetti when you're

47
00:03:27,879 --> 00:03:34,680
running at a low bit rate but the truth is if I was just playing the game and

48
00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:37,879
not busy trying to evaluate the device there's nothing about the visuals or the

49
00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:41,159
sound that would make me go oh this sucks forget it I think I'm getting

50
00:03:39,599 --> 00:03:44,120
ahead of myself a little though let's take a tour from the front it's as

51
00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:48,439
though you were playing a game on your dual sense controller and a dimensional

52
00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:53,799
wizard came along and opened up an 8 in Portal right down the middle and I

53
00:03:51,319 --> 00:03:58,799
consider that to be a really good thing the Dual sense is Far and Away my

54
00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:02,360
favorite PlayStation controller ever and probably the best first party design on

55
00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:07,640
the market right now and the only thing that's really missing is the touchpad

56
00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:12,200
now I'm not going to sugarcoat this the onscreen replacement for this kind of

57
00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:15,079
sucks but I'm hoping that it can be fixed in software and I'm pretty

58
00:04:13,879 --> 00:04:19,560
confident Sony's going to get this figured out what they can't fix in

59
00:04:17,359 --> 00:04:23,840
software is that the sticks are measurably smaller but it's the kind of

60
00:04:21,840 --> 00:04:27,639
thing that I didn't notice until I went looking for it and makes sense when you

61
00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:32,080
consider that this is a device that's likely to be stuffed into your backpack

62
00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:36,600
say maybe in this handy little screen safe spot right here LTT Store.com even

63
00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:40,560
with the angle of the screen I think it's fair to say that this is one of the

64
00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:46,560
most comfortable handheld gaming devices that we have ever seen it's not light at

65
00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:50,680
529 G it is noticeably heavier than its nearest competitor the Logitech g-cloud

66
00:04:49,039 --> 00:04:56,280
and it even weighs more than some full-blown handheld consoles notably the

67
00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:59,360
switch OLED but it puts the user in a

68
00:04:56,280 --> 00:05:01,560
much wider more ergonomic posture that

69
00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:05,639
in in my opinion mostly offsets the weight even during longer play sessions

70
00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:13,360
but the real killer feature of the portal is the price okay okay okay okay

71
00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:15,560
look I know you could just throw your

72
00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:19,960
phone in a backbone and game on that at a fraction of the cost but hear me out

73
00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:24,360
guys okay you get a first party grade controller with adaptive triggers and

74
00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:29,520
haptic feedback you get a decent 8 in screen you got a battery speakers Wi-Fi

75
00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:33,039
packaging and shipping a processor with accelerated video decode and some RAM

76
00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:37,400
and storage obviously this appears to be a Snapdragon 662 from early reports but

77
00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:41,560
we don't have pricing for that so let's use a Raspberry Pi Z as a price proxy

78
00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:46,440
you'll need an operating system that probably needed to be developed at some point and somewhere in there you've got

79
00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:54,120
to find some margin for Sony's Retail Partners and God willing Sony themselves

80
00:05:49,759 --> 00:05:57,639
so look I know $200 is a lot to ask for

81
00:05:54,120 --> 00:06:00,280
an accessory to a $500 device but you

82
00:05:57,639 --> 00:06:05,560
know what else is $200 the Dual sense Edge and that's just a controller so if

83
00:06:02,919 --> 00:06:10,639
we're not outraged about that I don't see why we have a problem with this and

84
00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:15,919
I get it this product might not speak to you and that's fine but I think

85
00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:18,360
attacking its price is a poor use of our

86
00:06:15,919 --> 00:06:22,880
finite anger energy especially when there are other places we could direct

87
00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:26,199
it that are much more valid back to our

88
00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:29,080
tour then the device charges and charges

89
00:06:26,199 --> 00:06:33,880
only through a bottom mounted USBC Port meaning that there's great ergonomics

90
00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:39,800
when you're playing with it but no your display Ethernet or Bluetooth dongles

91
00:06:36,599 --> 00:06:42,800
will not work which isn't the main

92
00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:45,080
problem the main problem is why would

93
00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:49,759
you need a Bluetooth dongle let me put it this way you have multiple options

94
00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:54,080
for audio playback the 3 and 12 mm headphone jack which is right next to

95
00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:58,840
the USBC Port the top firing stereo speakers or the companion pulse series

96
00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:04,800
headphones from Sony via PlayStation link I says pardon yeah you heard me in

97
00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:10,240
spite of its mobile first design the portal has no support for Bluetooth

98
00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:15,120
Sony's justification for this is that PlayStation link and their proprietary

99
00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:18,440
low latency lossless audio format are going to deliver a better gaming

100
00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:22,879
experience than Bluetooth when they launch their Pulse Elite headset or

101
00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:27,400
pulse explore earbuds later this year and that's fair enough even modern

102
00:07:24,759 --> 00:07:33,800
Bluetooth 5.x can struggle when streaming highquality realtime audio but

103
00:07:30,599 --> 00:07:36,000
to not give me the option if that's a

104
00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:41,720
drawback that I'm willing to accept especially when the hardware is

105
00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:43,400
obviously in there that's just insulting

106
00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:48,080
oh how do I know the hardware is in there well for one thing I can't think

107
00:07:45,919 --> 00:07:53,879
of a single modern Wi-Fi chipset that doesn't also integrate Bluetooth and for

108
00:07:50,759 --> 00:07:56,080
another those pulse headphones do

109
00:07:53,879 --> 00:08:01,599
support Bluetooth if you pair them to another device like say for example a

110
00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:06,759
Nintendo switch so it's likely that Sony is just tweaking the encoding and could

111
00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:12,159
choose to operate in standard mode like Nintendo eventually did my other big

112
00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:17,319
issue with it is battery life like the Logitech g-cloud the portal is dead

113
00:08:14,599 --> 00:08:23,120
silent and stays cool to the touch but the g-cloud managed over 11 hours of

114
00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:29,840
gaming on its 6,000 mAh battery the portal four I understand they had a

115
00:08:26,159 --> 00:08:32,240
price to hit but that is huge

116
00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:36,839
I mean the charge time is okay at least but still this compromise is the

117
00:08:34,959 --> 00:08:42,000
difference between this thing kicking around my house and I just grab it and

118
00:08:39,479 --> 00:08:46,720
game on it when I feel like it and me needing to remember to charge it after

119
00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:50,800
every session then go get it when I actively want to use it kind of like the

120
00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:57,800
Dual sense the last controversial cut was to wireless wi-fi 5 really Sony I

121
00:08:55,279 --> 00:09:02,839
mean the PS5 itself which launched 3 years ago has Wi-Fi 6 however this one

122
00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:07,519
might not be as big of a deal as you'd think while gaming we found that the

123
00:09:04,839 --> 00:09:12,360
portal was eating up about 10 to 14 megabits per second so there is no way

124
00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:16,320
that you would saturate a Wi-Fi 5 connection unless you were at the very

125
00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:20,279
limits of your router's range and even if you were Wi-Fi 6 would be pretty

126
00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:24,240
unlikely to help anyway since that generational bump didn't come with any

127
00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:28,000
big improvements to range though of course it should be noted that all of

128
00:09:25,839 --> 00:09:31,800
this depends on your specific setup and the quality of your network which

129
00:09:29,959 --> 00:09:36,200
actually doesn't need to be that high I guess 14 megabit let's talk about what

130
00:09:34,279 --> 00:09:41,480
that means for image quality cuz that's a lot lower than I expected for 1080p60

131
00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:45,480
as I alluded to earlier you are going to notice some streaming compression while

132
00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:49,240
gaming on the portal especially in the finer details of busy scenes like for

133
00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:53,839
example the Sandman opening of Spider-Man 2 but the reality of it is

134
00:09:52,079 --> 00:09:58,240
that's going to be the case with any wireless video streaming device and we

135
00:09:55,640 --> 00:10:01,800
found that most of the time it wasn't too distracting

136
00:09:59,959 --> 00:10:06,360
one little tip is that we would strongly recommend setting your games to 60fps

137
00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:10,279
Performance mode when using the portal you're unlikely to notice the better

138
00:10:07,839 --> 00:10:15,320
visual Fidelity on such a small screen not to mention over a stream anyway and

139
00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:19,200
the higher your frame rate the lower your input latency which is going to be

140
00:10:17,519 --> 00:10:24,000
doubly important if you expect to use the portal away from your house Sony

141
00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:28,800
does support this use case which is super cool because it kind of turns your

142
00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:33,279
PlayStation into a personal cloud gaming server service that has no monthly

143
00:10:30,519 --> 00:10:39,959
subscription but it is going to add anywhere from another 10 milliseconds of

144
00:10:35,639 --> 00:10:42,320
latency best case scenario to 50 100

145
00:10:39,959 --> 00:10:47,240
milliseconds or even more depending on your distance from home and that's even

146
00:10:44,399 --> 00:10:51,519
with a decent connection and assuming you will actually be able to use it you

147
00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:56,680
see Sony in their infinite wisdom has opted not to include an internet browser

148
00:10:54,120 --> 00:11:00,680
on the portal which means that as of this time there is no way to authentic

149
00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:05,160
icate with captive portal wireless networks like the kind found in

150
00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:08,839
restaurants hotels or basically anywhere that isn't your friend's or your mom's

151
00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:12,519
house you could tether to your phone I guess but at least if you live in North

152
00:11:10,639 --> 00:11:18,120
America that is only going to be an option if you really hate money and also

153
00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:22,399
hate image quality now our guess is that this was done to deter home brew and

154
00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:26,079
jailbreaking since browsers tend to be a point of Ingress for these kinds of

155
00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:30,560
console hacks but only time will tell if Sony's approach is going to work and if

156
00:11:28,519 --> 00:11:35,000
it's going to to be worth the outrage that this is causing amongst their

157
00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:38,760
customers I got to admit if it can be jailbroken I find that pretty exciting

158
00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:44,639
and there already seems to be some work going on though herx here isn't being

159
00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:49,079
entirely realistic uh no switch emulator is going to be running on this wimpy

160
00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:51,440
little s so but if this thing is just

161
00:11:49,079 --> 00:11:54,839
running Android and someone does manage to root it nothing would prevent you

162
00:11:53,040 --> 00:12:00,079
from running Moonlight on it and playing PC games at desktop quality on this

163
00:11:57,519 --> 00:12:04,440
great screen with this great controller if it is on the subject of things you

164
00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:11,519
can't do with the portal at the moment ps+ premium streaming I know WTF right I

165
00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:16,880
mean you can stream from your own PlayStation but not from Sony's

166
00:12:14,399 --> 00:12:20,959
Playstation streaming service not even if it routes through your own

167
00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:25,160
PlayStation In fairness that would probably butcher the experience but

168
00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:28,920
still I think it says a lot about how low tier they had to go on the hardware

169
00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:33,079
to make this thing happen at this price price coming back to good news though

170
00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:37,440
they didn't seem to cheap out on the screen while we weren't able to run our

171
00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:42,519
test patterns for a full analysis the screen looks vibrant to the eye and

172
00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:45,600
managed 493 nits Peak brightness under real world conditions which is very

173
00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:50,360
similar to what we measured on the Logitech g-cloud wireless it runs at

174
00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:54,519
1080p 60 HZ meaning that under ideal conditions it'll look noticeably sharper

175
00:12:52,240 --> 00:13:00,800
than the steam deck and while it's an LCD not an OLED the glossy finish does

176
00:12:58,079 --> 00:13:06,079
help make black Rel pop and it looks pretty darn good it's SDR which is kind

177
00:13:03,959 --> 00:13:10,800
of a bummer considering that remote play already has support for HDR on your PC

178
00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:14,160
or your phone for that matter which is another compelling argument for using a

179
00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:18,560
strap-on controller if you don't mind the smaller screen but I think we made

180
00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:22,720
it clear in our cost breakdown why a brighter HDR display probably wasn't in

181
00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:26,959
the cards and wouldn't have helped battery life

182
00:13:24,959 --> 00:13:30,680
either now before it was announced there were rumors that the portal would be

183
00:13:28,399 --> 00:13:34,920
more of a a standalone device like the PlayStation vaita rather than a device

184
00:13:33,199 --> 00:13:39,920
dedicated to streaming games from the PlayStation 5 you already own and I can

185
00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:45,160
see why people were excited for that but now that it's in our hands we love how

186
00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:49,639
easy it is to use and I feel like the Simplicity is one of the Portal's

187
00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:55,360
greatest strengths I mean I've made my issues with it clear at this point but I

188
00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:59,320
feel like it's a lot like the psvr2 it's

189
00:13:55,360 --> 00:14:00,320
great Tech at a fair price that is is as

190
00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:05,639
long as you're willing to enter a monogamous relationship with Sony or

191
00:14:03,199 --> 00:14:10,199
wait for Community tinkerers to uh strip out the limitations as it is today

192
00:14:07,839 --> 00:14:13,959
though we can't rely on that but if you've already bought into the PS5

193
00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:17,800
ecosystem and you share a TV with other people in your house the portal gives

194
00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:23,160
more value to the console you already own value that I would argue is well

195
00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:28,279
worth the cost of admission my only worry is whether the portal will

196
00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:30,120
continue to give value beyond the PS5

197
00:14:28,279 --> 00:14:34,320
see it's hard to predict if the PlayStation 6 for example will be able

198
00:14:32,639 --> 00:14:39,320
to stream to the portal since Sony's track record with backwards and forwards

199
00:14:36,279 --> 00:14:41,680
compatibility is complicated to say the

200
00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,839
least what's not complicated is where you can go to buy one we're going to

201
00:14:42,759 --> 00:14:49,240
have links to where to buy the PlayStation portal and also a link to

202
00:14:45,759 --> 00:14:51,079
our sponsor ug green ah Black Friday the

203
00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:55,199
time when Americans have traditionally upgraded their charging Solutions

204
00:14:52,839 --> 00:14:59,440
fittingly ug Green's giving you 50% off a bunch of products right now like the

205
00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:04,399
magnetic 10,000 mAh battery pack which has three charging outputs to charge

206
00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:06,639
three devices simultaneously slap it on

207
00:15:04,399 --> 00:15:10,399
the back of your phone and watch the 15w wireless charg and go to work and if you

208
00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:15,360
have an iPhone with mag safe or a magnetic phone case it will stay stuck

209
00:15:12,759 --> 00:15:20,720
on that Like Glue electric glue not safe for consumption with 20 W charging over

210
00:15:17,399 --> 00:15:22,320
USBC and 22 1/2 watt charging over usba

211
00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:28,000
ugreen claims that their magnetic battery Bank can fast charge an iPhone

212
00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:30,519
15 Pro from 0 to 60% in 30 minutes with

213
00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:35,000
a USB-C Port that's the perfect amount of time to prop your phone up with the

214
00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:39,600
battery's buil-in foldable kickstand so you can charge up and watch lonus drop

215
00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:43,920
his airpods in a pool or forget to turn off his Smart Oven or something at the

216
00:15:41,639 --> 00:15:48,040
same time what a great battery Bank check it out and ug Green's other

217
00:15:45,399 --> 00:15:51,240
products on sale too at the link below if you guys enjoyed this video maybe go

218
00:15:49,759 --> 00:15:55,839
check out our review of the steam deck OLED it's more than double the price but

219
00:15:53,759 --> 00:15:59,920
given it has a full fat gaming PC strapped to the back of it I would argue

220
00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:02,319
that it's more than double the fun as well