PS Portal's Battery Life Aiming to Match PS5 Controller

4-6 hours would be fine for me.

6hrs is fine. The fact it’s wifi only is not, especially at £200

You're most likely gonna be able to easily charge this wherever you are using it. It's really starting to look like a more compelling device. Digging the new range of PS products Sony is launching. Word up son 👍🏻

DS5 seems to last for less time than the DS4 so I think 4 to 12 hours is optimistic...

@PlayStationGamer3919 Why do you believe PSVR2 flopped? I do agree about the Portal flopping though. Should have been a proper handheld.

Oh good so that’s about 1 hour & 42 mins of play 🙂

I don't think this is a good thing. I'm a huge fan of the Dualsense, so much that I'd even list it as my favorite controller in my over 3 decades of gaming. However, the battery life in it is absolutely putrid.

@Rafie I disagree. Why have a full fledged handheld, they've tried that and no one cared neither did, Sony.

We are way past fully fledged handhelds from console makers, even Nintendo merged the 2.

The only reason the steam deck works is because it uses your steam library.

Sonys track record of supporting non mainline inventions is awful.

@PlayStationGamer3919 one is an additive accessory, the other is basically its own ecosystem with way more investments. Hardly comparable.

A remote play only device with a fairly limited battery life that can only be used on WiFi as long as you have the PS5 on. Sounds terrible. Even worse when you consider the price.

Man, I'm all over this place with this device. Simplified access to remote play is welcome, but not supporting Premium streaming is such wasted potential!
Also, I just pre-ordered the Ayn odin 2 and have a steam deck... so I think my pathological obsession with handhelds is covered for now... and both can do remote play of course.

@lightningbolt79 and you can only use wireless headphones with it if you buy the new expensive ones that use a proprietary tech for connecting because Sony does that again, and you can't use Bluetooth because it's not supported.

So you can't even use your expensive PS5 headset from when the PS5 launched. It's insane

I usually get something close to 7 hours. Decent enough I guess

@BeerIsAwesome i can get a solid 26 mins out of the Edge if i turn everything off. Haha JK

In a more serious way, why has Sony a very talented company and one that even makes batteries seem to struggle with controller battery life so badly? I don’t get it. I can understand being a few hours less than others but it’s not even close enough to try and give them the benefit of the doubt. I do have the Sony inZone H9 headphones and they get pretty solid battery life. But that’s about it.

I have owned 3 dualsense (2 broke due to floppy triggers) and not 1 of my controllers have ever lasted more than 4 hours. Even my new Starlight Blue one that I got 2 weeks ago runs out in 3-4hours. The battery life is terrible and for a remote play only handheld, that battery length is poor

I'm assuming it doesn't use Bluetooth, since it's battery draining but why not an aux jack then?

Half OT: Can I also use the Portal as a regular controller when playing on TV? Haven’t found any information about this in the PS blog. Thank you!

@NomNom I think it was confirmed to have an 3.5mm jack awhile ago.

Price too steep. Can't justify getting this for 230 euros when you can get whole XboX series s for 70 extra. 150ish... Considering that prices are insanely high everywhere rn.

I think we’re looking at it wrong.

If your gaming controller w/o a screen (DS5 has a pad not a screen) only has the same battery life as an 8” 1080p full color touchscreen, then your DS5 obviously has much too short of a battery life. A DS5 controller should have 3x-4x longer life than an 8” tablet. 😝

In comparison the Switch Pro, and knockoff faux that I have with gyro and NFC, each get around 25-30 hours. Which is probably about how long a controller should last. The Wii U Gamepad, with a big screen like the Portal, also only got a few hours, which seems realistic for a large screen device.🤷🏻‍♂️

this looks more and more like a product that should have been canned

@PlayStationGamer3919 Yes, and one of those two requires a ton more investments and which comes at way higher costs when failing. The other is basically just another controller. Doesn't sell? Stop production and be done with it which you can't just do with PSVR2 because you'd waste millions of dollars.

@thefourfoldroot1
That's an unrealistic expectation. The Razer Backbone, which is a premium controller attachment for a phone (and no fancy haptics or adaptive triggers) is $100. Another $100 for all those controller features, a large screen, and Wi-Fi doesn't seem unreasonable.

I am keen on width dimensions for this Stretch Dualstrong

“Depending on what you read, that can average anywhere from four hours to 12 hours”

Who is getting battery life anywhere in the double digits for PS5 controllers? Seriously the battery life of these things is atrocious. I have my controllers set by default to power on without the microphone being enabled and even when I just use it to start YouTube or Hulu and leave the controller idle I still feel like it dies in less than 10 hours and I have two controllers that do the same thing so can’t even use the excuse of maybe it’s just that my controller is bad.

Is the Portal an April Fool? I mean seriously?

Lmfao who in the hell is getting 12 hours of actual use per charge with their dual sense. That's just outright bs. I have 4 of them and none of them get past 5 maybe 6 hours; less if features are fully implemented in a game or i plug a headset into them.

My guess is this useless peripheral will be get between 1.5-3 hrs based on the same and screen brightness.

@NinjaNicky Yeah, we know. But much like with the Switch and people moaning you couldn't pair Bluetooth headphones with it, here we are again.

@PlayStationGamer3919 just because it's not for you doesn't mean it's not for anyone else. People play in different ways.

@Shepherd_Tallon i just keep my Edge and Standard controller charged at all times after i play and having two controllers is a nice advantage. But again the battery life is way off in the market of controllers and has been since PS4. Would like to see them get better in the future.

@Balie3000 word life, son 🤜🏼🤛

@BeerIsAwesome Sony don’t make the batteries inside the controllers no. But my Sony Tv came with Sony branded AA’s and maybe they don’t even make batteries anymore. But one thing is for sure, they have plenty of room for improvement in the battery life department. The handheld should be enough for most, even if just barely and yes i agree a pair of headphones vs a controller will have different usages of a battery for sure.

Didn't we already know this?

@Mikey856 @thefourfoldroot1 You watch this thing won't even get close to 4 hours, definitely not with features turned on. Your mileage may vary is code for, "our numbers are way inflated."

@blockfight Let me explain how flops work. Those too don't mean they weren't for someone. People buy into flops but not nearly enough to count as success and keep the device onthe market. This will be one of those types of devices, a flop. Just like small group of people bought into New Coke, Qwikster, Google Lively/Glasses (hell a ton of Google stuff) all flops.

@BeerIsAwesome i just don’t like having to charge my controller after every time i play , and if i don’t then it will likely die on me during my next sit down. Plus leaving controllers on charges and not letting the battery drain low affects the cells in the battery and it won’t hold a full charge ever again. Again i expect a little better from Sony in this area. But i make it work.

Depending what I’m playing (due to the haptic feedback etc) my DS probably lasts a solid 6-8 hours before I gotta charge.

@KaijuKaiser 6hrs? The Portal isn't going to last 6 hours. That is a pipe dream. Multiple sites have done battery tests over the y past several and found the average time a DS battery lasts, with features on, is 3 hours and now you add the screen and other energy draining components (not in a DS) the likelihood oven even reaching that expectation is even less. Sony saying "aiming for" should be another clue, this device isn't going to even come close to Dual Sense numbers.

You have to love the arrogance or it just plain old crapping on their consumer base with them calling this the Play Station Portal or what works out to have the acronym of PSP. And don't think for a moment they didn't know that. Instead, they give us this garbage device rather than a new version of the previous PSP devices that most of us have been requesting all along.

@Max_the_German No you can't use it as regular controller on a PS console. None of the literature mentions that (you think Sony would mention it if it were possible). Beyond that the most obvious reason why is because the device doesn't support Bluetooth at all. Lack of Bluetooth is why wireless headsets won't work and you have to buy these new wireless audio devices (headphone, buds) Sony announced along with Portal because only they support Sony's PlayStation Link proprietary tech. This is old Sony arrogance popping up again.

Might pass, considering my PS5 controllers only last approx 1 hour tops now. Had them from original launch. Time for new controllers first for me.

@ImGumbyDammit You need a PS5, it lacks support for PS Plus Premium streaming, the ability to emulate PS1, PS2 and PSP for offline play, and it can’t be used as a regular controller despite including almost all parts of that. And all that for a price of a Switch Lite bundle. Big Jimbo rocks again.

@Haruki_NLI I heard it has a 3.5 headphone jack socket. If it doesn't, it's a ridiculous proposition.

@PlayStationGamer3919 I'm buying one day dot. I regularly want to use my PS5 but the TV is in use. This means I can still socialize with the family while I play PS5 games, but they can do their own thing on the TV. WinWin!

I also bought a PSVR2 day one and absolutely love it. I've spent more time in VR than on the flat screen since I bought it. IMO Sony knocked it out of the park with PSVR2.

@Digit2021 My two launch controllers still have 4-5hrs battery life! What on earth have you done to only get an hour!

I've been asking for this for awhile. Except with OLED. Grrr why didn't they just go all the way?

@VRjunky
Play too much??? 😂
Every time after I play I put them on the charging stand. I used to never let them run flat at all. Maybe that’s the issue in that I never used to run the battery down to cycle it.

@Digit2021 I treat mine the same. Always on the dock since new and rarely get discharged all the way. I do have 4x though (two docks with 4x controllers in total) so maybe they just haven't seen as much work.

How hard is it to swap the batteries. I remember doing this to my Dual shock 4s towards the end of last gen and it was pretty easy.

@VRjunky
Didn’t know batteries can be replaced. Cool, I will look into that for 1 of them. The other is suffering from occasional drifting so that can be replaced soon I think

@ImGumbyDammit Thank you for explaining how flops work.
I couldn't care less if this flops or not. It doesn't have any software that would get locked on it like the Vita if it does flop. It's allowing people more ways to play if they require it, which going by a poll on this very website that over 3000 people have voted on, roughly 25% said they would buy this. Including me. Really looking forward to getting this.

Seems fine to me. You'll use it for one to three hours while the TV is occupied by your significant other or your kids, then you'll be able to switch back to the main console.

I mean, it's WiFi only isn't it? I'd probably be sitting next to my ps5 while playing it anyway and be able to plug it in (if I bought one when they're inevitably in the clearance bin).

@PlayStationGamer3919 If it was actually a proper streaming device where you could stream any content you own or have access to it might have a market. No idea why on earth I'd ever need a device that only streams my personal ps5.

@TheCollector316 why are you even talking about Razer controller? To play on PS portal you need to have a ps5. If you have a ps5 you have a dualsense.

@saffeqwe
The Razer Backbone is an attachment for a smartphone for playing games on the go, like via Remote Play. That's why I brought it up. It's highly relevant.

@TheCollector316 there are a lot of cheaper mounts for phones and tablets. for like 15-20 bucks