• thingsiplay@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Another true IGN moment. 8/10? Man this thing looks ugly. And it can only stream your local Playstation 5 on the local network, otherwise it’s useless. Battery life is a joke for a streaming only device. Does not have Bluetooth. And the price is expensive for what it does. Yet IGN praises this. Imagine Microsoft did the same thing for XBox. I really don’t want to come off as a Console War guy (I’m a PC Gamer), but imagine that for a moment. And no, I do not hate Sony, I just hate this device.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t think this is a console war thing. I just think IGN is a sellout rag that rates games however game companies tell them to. Their ratings are consistently unexplainable by anyone with sense.

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        8 months ago

        But I think it does not support streaming over the internet. Its only limited to the same network you are with your PS5. Or am I wrong? Edit: Apparently I can’t read. At least it is possible to stream your PS5 to other wifi networks.

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          8 months ago

          My apologies. You seem to be absolutely correct. It seemingly does not work outside of your LAN.

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            8 months ago

            Thanks for confirmation. One can’t even stream the online streaming games with the PS Plus subscription. Its really only about the local games you have… I’m totally baffled.

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              8 months ago

              This is from the article:

              “This was the turning point for me, where I went from “well this is kind of neat,” to “this is actually rad.” There I was, playing FF7R from the PS5 in my house in a cafe across town and it was nearly indistinguishable from the experience at home. Again, that’s something that can certainly be done on your phone or tablet (and those are able to get past that login screen) but none of them feels as good to hold and play on as the Portal.”

              It does play via remote wifi but only games from your local ps5.

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                8 months ago

                Hmm, okay. So I got most of the stuff correct then (no internet streaming), but didn’t got the part it would stream on other wifi networks. I skipped parts of the review, because I didn’t expect that functionality would have changed. Shame on me and this should be a lesson! So then that went from useless (in my opinion) to useful at times.

                But the PS5 has to run for that, right? Can you remote control to run and sleep the PS5?

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                  8 months ago

                  So the remote play functionality from before remains intact. So once paired with the PS5 the device can remotely turn the device on or the device is always listening for the connection.

                  This is a dedicated device for that though. If you read my initial post I’m not a fan of the device and even less of the manner by which IGN reviewed it. They’re looking at it in a complete vacuum and comparing it to a device that basically already failed (The Backbone).