WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:05.839 if you were expecting me to jump on the hate bandwagon for this thing you're 00:00:03.760 --> 00:00:09.719 going to end up sorely disappointed I do have problems with the PlayStation 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:13.000 portal but I've been a believer in remote game streaming for as long as 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:17.720 some of you have been alive starting with the NVIDIA shield no not that one 00:00:15.639 --> 00:00:22.920 the handheld one that everyone including NVIDIA seems to have forgotten about I 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:27.679 played Tomb Raider 2013 start to finish on that thing infant sun in lap without 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 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:38.960 otherwise couldn't make time for it so look if you're not psyched for this 00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:40.800 thing I get it but I am or at least I 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:45.000 will be if Sony has ironed out all the troubleshooting nonsense that has made 00:00:42.440 --> 00:00:50.719 this technology kind of inaccessible for the average gamer setup challenge begins 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:55.199 now uh Power English does anyone know the Wi-Fi 00:00:53.440 --> 00:00:58.760 password thank you for the ortholinear keyboard just kidding I 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:05.479 agree approve select PS5 allow 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:11.840 connection to PS5 settings system remote play and turn on remote play 00:01:09.520 --> 00:01:18.560 settings system oh it was on it was I hit X to 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:20.040 connect oh wait oh okay it worked 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 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:29.200 to continue indicator in the bottom left but we're still completely set up and 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:32.439 ready to game in just 3 and 1/2 minutes that's not bad 00:01:30.520 --> 00:01:37.560 now let's see how fast we can segue to our 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only 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 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:28.599 I thought visually this is a super busy 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:31.760 game with really Lush environments I am expecting it to be oh 00:02:32.480 --> 00:02:38.519 a lot less visual artifact than I was 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:41.680 expecting once again particle effects and smoke going to be a bit of a 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:46.959 struggle but anything reasonably close to you doesn't look bad at all I'm also 00:02:44.920 --> 00:02:51.440 a little surprised at how Okay the text looks especially when the menu looked so 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 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 00:02:58.760 --> 00:03:07.280 feels oh yeah that's more like it this is 100% 00:03:04.920 --> 00:03:13.400 how I play this wow nice Sound Stage where are 00:03:09.959 --> 00:03:16.360 these speakers oh they're top top firing 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:21.599 woo man this one looks particularly okay maybe it helps that 00:03:19.200 --> 00:03:25.959 it's at night definitely managing to notice some visual anomalies with all 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:30.319 these Bright Lights moving around on screen kind of like confetti when you're 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 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:37.879 not busy trying to evaluate the device there's nothing about the visuals or the 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:41.159 sound that would make me go oh this sucks forget it I think I'm getting 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 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:48.439 though you were playing a game on your dual sense controller and a dimensional 00:03:46.040 --> 00:03:53.799 wizard came along and opened up an 8 in Portal right down the middle and I 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:58.799 consider that to be a really good thing the Dual sense is Far and Away my 00:03:56.040 --> 00:04:02.360 favorite PlayStation controller ever and probably the best first party design on 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:07.640 the market right now and the only thing that's really missing is the touchpad 00:04:05.760 --> 00:04:12.200 now I'm not going to sugarcoat this the onscreen replacement for this kind of 00:04:10.200 --> 00:04:15.079 sucks but I'm hoping that it can be fixed in software and I'm pretty 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:19.560 confident Sony's going to get this figured out what they can't fix in 00:04:17.359 --> 00:04:23.840 software is that the sticks are measurably smaller but it's the kind of 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 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:32.080 consider that this is a device that's likely to be stuffed into your backpack 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:36.600 say maybe in this handy little screen safe spot right here LTT Store.com even 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 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:46.560 most comfortable handheld gaming devices that we have ever seen it's not light at 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:50.680 529 G it is noticeably heavier than its nearest competitor the Logitech g-cloud 00:04:49.039 --> 00:04:56.280 and it even weighs more than some full-blown handheld consoles notably the 00:04:52.880 --> 00:04:59.360 switch OLED but it puts the user in a 00:04:56.280 --> 00:05:01.560 much wider more ergonomic posture that 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:05.639 in in my opinion mostly offsets the weight even during longer play sessions 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:13.360 but the real killer feature of the portal is the price okay okay okay okay 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:15.560 look I know you could just throw your 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 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:24.360 guys okay you get a first party grade controller with adaptive triggers and 00:05:22.080 --> 00:05:29.520 haptic feedback you get a decent 8 in screen you got a battery speakers Wi-Fi 00:05:27.440 --> 00:05:33.039 packaging and shipping a processor with accelerated video decode and some RAM 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:37.400 and storage obviously this appears to be a Snapdragon 662 from early reports but 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 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 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:54.120 to find some margin for Sony's Retail Partners and God willing Sony themselves 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:57.639 so look I know $200 is a lot to ask for 00:05:54.120 --> 00:06:00.280 an accessory to a $500 device but you 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 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 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 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:18.360 attacking its price is a poor use of our 00:06:15.919 --> 00:06:22.880 finite anger energy especially when there are other places we could direct 00:06:19.840 --> 00:06:26.199 it that are much more valid back to our 00:06:22.880 --> 00:06:29.080 tour then the device charges and charges 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:33.880 only through a bottom mounted USBC Port meaning that there's great ergonomics 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:39.800 when you're playing with it but no your display Ethernet or Bluetooth dongles 00:06:36.599 --> 00:06:42.800 will not work which isn't the main 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:45.080 problem the main problem is why would 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:49.759 you need a Bluetooth dongle let me put it this way you have multiple options 00:06:47.520 --> 00:06:54.080 for audio playback the 3 and 12 mm headphone jack which is right next to 00:06:51.520 --> 00:06:58.840 the USBC Port the top firing stereo speakers or the companion pulse series 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:04.800 headphones from Sony via PlayStation link I says pardon yeah you heard me in 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:10.240 spite of its mobile first design the portal has no support for Bluetooth 00:07:07.960 --> 00:07:15.120 Sony's justification for this is that PlayStation link and their proprietary 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:18.440 low latency lossless audio format are going to deliver a better gaming 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:22.879 experience than Bluetooth when they launch their Pulse Elite headset or 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:27.400 pulse explore earbuds later this year and that's fair enough even modern 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:33.800 Bluetooth 5.x can struggle when streaming highquality realtime audio but 00:07:30.599 --> 00:07:36.000 to not give me the option if that's a 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:41.720 drawback that I'm willing to accept especially when the hardware is 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:43.400 obviously in there that's just insulting 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 00:07:45.919 --> 00:07:53.879 of a single modern Wi-Fi chipset that doesn't also integrate Bluetooth and for 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:56.080 another those pulse headphones do 00:07:53.879 --> 00:08:01.599 support Bluetooth if you pair them to another device like say for example a 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:06.759 Nintendo switch so it's likely that Sony is just tweaking the encoding and could 00:08:04.280 --> 00:08:12.159 choose to operate in standard mode like Nintendo eventually did my other big 00:08:09.280 --> 00:08:17.319 issue with it is battery life like the Logitech g-cloud the portal is dead 00:08:14.599 --> 00:08:23.120 silent and stays cool to the touch but the g-cloud managed over 11 hours of 00:08:20.440 --> 00:08:29.840 gaming on its 6,000 mAh battery the portal four I understand they had a 00:08:26.159 --> 00:08:32.240 price to hit but that is huge 00:08:29.840 --> 00:08:36.839 I mean the charge time is okay at least but still this compromise is the 00:08:34.959 --> 00:08:42.000 difference between this thing kicking around my house and I just grab it and 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 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 00:08:48.560 --> 00:08:57.800 Dual sense the last controversial cut was to wireless wi-fi 5 really Sony I 00:08:55.279 --> 00:09:02.839 mean the PS5 itself which launched 3 years ago has Wi-Fi 6 however this one 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 00:09:04.839 --> 00:09:12.360 portal was eating up about 10 to 14 megabits per second so there is no way 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:16.320 that you would saturate a Wi-Fi 5 connection unless you were at the very 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 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:24.240 unlikely to help anyway since that generational bump didn't come with any 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:28.000 big improvements to range though of course it should be noted that all of 00:09:25.839 --> 00:09:31.800 this depends on your specific setup and the quality of your network which 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 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:41.480 that means for image quality cuz that's a lot lower than I expected for 1080p60 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:45.480 as I alluded to earlier you are going to notice some streaming compression while 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:49.240 gaming on the portal especially in the finer details of busy scenes like for 00:09:47.800 --> 00:09:53.839 example the Sandman opening of Spider-Man 2 but the reality of it is 00:09:52.079 --> 00:09:58.240 that's going to be the case with any wireless video streaming device and we 00:09:55.640 --> 00:10:01.800 found that most of the time it wasn't too distracting 00:09:59.959 --> 00:10:06.360 one little tip is that we would strongly recommend setting your games to 60fps 00:10:04.120 --> 00:10:10.279 Performance mode when using the portal you're unlikely to notice the better 00:10:07.839 --> 00:10:15.320 visual Fidelity on such a small screen not to mention over a stream anyway and 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:19.200 the higher your frame rate the lower your input latency which is going to be 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:24.000 doubly important if you expect to use the portal away from your house Sony 00:10:21.880 --> 00:10:28.800 does support this use case which is super cool because it kind of turns your 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:33.279 PlayStation into a personal cloud gaming server service that has no monthly 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:39.959 subscription but it is going to add anywhere from another 10 milliseconds of 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:42.320 latency best case scenario to 50 100 00:10:39.959 --> 00:10:47.240 milliseconds or even more depending on your distance from home and that's even 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:51.519 with a decent connection and assuming you will actually be able to use it you 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:56.680 see Sony in their infinite wisdom has opted not to include an internet browser 00:10:54.120 --> 00:11:00.680 on the portal which means that as of this time there is no way to authentic 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:05.160 icate with captive portal wireless networks like the kind found in 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:08.839 restaurants hotels or basically anywhere that isn't your friend's or your mom's 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 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:18.120 America that is only going to be an option if you really hate money and also 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:22.399 hate image quality now our guess is that this was done to deter home brew and 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:26.079 jailbreaking since browsers tend to be a point of Ingress for these kinds of 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 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:35.000 it's going to to be worth the outrage that this is causing amongst their 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:38.760 customers I got to admit if it can be jailbroken I find that pretty exciting 00:11:37.160 --> 00:11:44.639 and there already seems to be some work going on though herx here isn't being 00:11:42.160 --> 00:11:49.079 entirely realistic uh no switch emulator is going to be running on this wimpy 00:11:45.800 --> 00:11:51.440 little s so but if this thing is just 00:11:49.079 --> 00:11:54.839 running Android and someone does manage to root it nothing would prevent you 00:11:53.040 --> 00:12:00.079 from running Moonlight on it and playing PC games at desktop quality on this 00:11:57.519 --> 00:12:04.440 great screen with this great controller if it is on the subject of things you 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 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:16.880 mean you can stream from your own PlayStation but not from Sony's 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:20.959 Playstation streaming service not even if it routes through your own 00:12:19.040 --> 00:12:25.160 PlayStation In fairness that would probably butcher the experience but 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 00:12:27.160 --> 00:12:33.079 to make this thing happen at this price price coming back to good news though 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 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:42.519 test patterns for a full analysis the screen looks vibrant to the eye and 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:45.600 managed 493 nits Peak brightness under real world conditions which is very 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:50.360 similar to what we measured on the Logitech g-cloud wireless it runs at 00:12:47.560 --> 00:12:54.519 1080p 60 HZ meaning that under ideal conditions it'll look noticeably sharper 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 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 00:13:03.959 --> 00:13:10.800 of a bummer considering that remote play already has support for HDR on your PC 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:14.160 or your phone for that matter which is another compelling argument for using a 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:18.560 strap-on controller if you don't mind the smaller screen but I think we made 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:22.720 it clear in our cost breakdown why a brighter HDR display probably wasn't in 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:26.959 the cards and wouldn't have helped battery life 00:13:24.959 --> 00:13:30.680 either now before it was announced there were rumors that the portal would be 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:34.920 more of a a standalone device like the PlayStation vaita rather than a device 00:13:33.199 --> 00:13:39.920 dedicated to streaming games from the PlayStation 5 you already own and I can 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 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 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 00:13:51.920 --> 00:13:59.320 feel like it's a lot like the psvr2 it's 00:13:55.360 --> 00:14:00.320 great Tech at a fair price that is is as 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:05.639 long as you're willing to enter a monogamous relationship with Sony or 00:14:03.199 --> 00:14:10.199 wait for Community tinkerers to uh strip out the limitations as it is today 00:14:07.839 --> 00:14:13.959 though we can't rely on that but if you've already bought into the PS5 00:14:11.880 --> 00:14:17.800 ecosystem and you share a TV with other people in your house the portal gives 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:23.160 more value to the console you already own value that I would argue is well 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:28.279 worth the cost of admission my only worry is whether the portal will 00:14:25.040 --> 00:14:30.120 continue to give value beyond the PS5 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:34.320 see it's hard to predict if the PlayStation 6 for example will be able 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:39.320 to stream to the portal since Sony's track record with backwards and forwards 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:41.680 compatibility is complicated to say the 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:43.839 least what's not 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