The PlayStation Portal is a $200 handheld device that puts PS5 games in the palm of your hand… as long as you’re on Wi-Fi. Previously known as Project Q, Portal uses the PS5’s remote play feature to stream games from your console. Importantly, the Portal also offers all the features and ergonomics of the PS5’s excellent DualSense controller, including haptic feedback, adaptive triggers, and its touchpad.

As a reminder, the PlayStation Portal, or Project Q, is (according to leaks) based on Android. It doesn’t run the games itself, it merely streams them from your PS5 and your handheld then serves as a controller with its own display.

I’m wondering why anyone would prefer that over simply using a regular Android phone with a good controller and the PS Remote Play app?

  • @KbobabobEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I think you mean rooted. It’s Android based.

    • MelokuEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      “rooted” and “jailbreak” are exactly the same procedure: obtain root access to low level hardware. The only difference is Apple fans trying to be different.

      • @KbobabobEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        I know they do the same thing, lol. But I’ve never heard someone say they’re going to jailbreak their Android. It’s just semantics.

      • [email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        They even mean the same thing technically! The “jail” specifically refers to a jailed shell, as BSD jail, so both jailbreaking and rooting (as in Unix root) both quite literally mean the same thing, privilege escalation.