PS Portal Will Allow Cloud Streaming in New Beta Update

At least you don't have to pay £700-800 to be a "beta tester" this time round. Roflcopter lmfao xD rawr

I've been really tempted by the Portal but it's the Sony server side that needs improvements. Streaming on PSN and remote play is nerfed for little reason. I'd lap up any chance of a decent experience in bed (of PlayStation)

More of a reason to buy one!

Sure. I’ll give it a go. Been happy with the PS Portal so far…

Not on premium and don't plan to upgrade. In fact I'll probably drop Extra at the end of my current subscription.

Anyway, for me the portal has been a bit of a let down. Could be I'm too rural for this to be a viable device outside of the home. As for the most part, it works almost exclusively as a second controller now. I can't imagine my experience streaming games from a cloud would be much better.

Sooooo once again I guess Australia misses out since we aren’t on the “countries where PS Plus Premium is” list, still slumming it here with the inferior “Deluxe” option… 😾

As far as I'm concerned this makes the Portal it way more valuable. Now, as long as you're a Premium member, you can actually take your Portal away with you and play a ton of games without having to worry about your connection to your PS5. Only decent wifi should be needed.

I used to love this feature when PS Now was on the Vita. It worked really well for me too.

Just in time for a Black Friday sales discount 👀

@Marquez you just use it as normal and other person logs in with a different controller. my wife and I play nba2k together this way. so you're still using wifi but as it's all the same network it's far snappier and more responsive than any place I've tried outside my house.

hopefully that made sense.

I bought a Portal because the wife felt we weren't spending enough time in the same room as a family, we have quite different interests.

It is fine and for the most part it does what it is supposed to, nothing spectacular, can certainly tell I'm streaming rather than playing natively but it still does what I need.

However, I have no interest in cloud based streaming. Even with 500mbps Internet the lag is too much and the break down of the image happens too often for me to enjoy it.

Maybe Portal will prove to be different but I doubt it.

Nice. I’ll g in vent a go. Have a few trade shows coming up and I’ll be away several days at a time. Hopefully hotel wifi holds up enough for some turn based games.

So you don't need a PS5 to do this cloud streaming thing right? If you have a decent connection and don't care about the occasional lag, wouldn't this eventually make it a budget handheld PS5 as more games are added??

@ATaco but at $160 a year? that's kinda depressing for a budget handheld.

WTF!!!! Now that is cool! How are they bringing this so casual as if its not a big deal, this is crazy good! We get PS5 gaming on a handheld. If the PS marketing didn’t suck, they would know how to deliver this. But damn, im in! I guess im buying a Portal 😄

Hell yeah, such a great device just got better! Can't wait to try it!

@XanderTigerclaw
Hear you, all this talk about cloud streaming and never comes to Australia. Then again the Sony servers in Australia sometimes struggle as it is with downloading games.
This would be handy since then my wife could play the PS5 local while I am playing on the portal but using cloud streaming.
They increase our prices but don't upgrade the services. Like a lot of things here now not just gaming

@Medic_alert Seriously? Wow, i dont have anywhere near 500mbps but my streams are always good. Never had a problem with it. Was actually pretty amazed how good it works. Now i mostly stream games in PS Plus, cause i dont wanna wait to download games anymore.

….this couldn’t already do this?

I live in Australia but have my ps5 and my account registered/bought in Germany cause that’s where from. Sony doesn’t have cloud streaming here in Aus natively, will I still be able to use it here basically via Germany or might I face a ban because of some ToS violation?

@Medic_alert I hope your PS5 is LAN connected to your router and in the PS5 settings (most important), it’s defaulted to use LAN rather than WIFI 👍🏻

If so your experience sound be excellent 👍🏻

@nessisonett well I guess it could do it... it just didn't until now. why does that seem worse.

Should be a ps plus feature on all tiers.

I cant get over how cool this is, its basically a PS5 handheld! Ive been waiting for this update. Sony basically just created their own streaming handheld device. It went from being an accessory to a full fledged handheld capable of playing PS5 games.

Im sure eventually they’ll make it possible to play everything on PS Plus. Honestly, i don't care if its only streaming. My streaming works perfectly. Very excited about this! 😁

@get2sammyb @ATaco and you'd be limited to the games that are on PS+ with streaming enabled (which is many of them but not all). Can't just buy a new game and stream it.

My 30th Anniversary Portal gets here soon and I'm looking forward to using it, but I'm not exactly sure why I wouldn't just stream the games of my PS5 instead. I mean I get the reasons, but they certainly don't outweigh the fact that I'd rather the games just be played on my PS5, then streamed.

Is it just games in premium or does it include extra as well?

Portal rules! 😂😂😂

@IceClimbersMain because it's portable? 🤣

Finally!! Bought in on the expectation this would roll out eventually… so much utility once the cloud streaming expands

@Medic_alert I mean it's selling well and there are better alternatives than just the Nintendo switch 🤣

I have premium but I moved to Australia and game streaming doesn’t work here with my UK account. Portal works great but this update is gonna do nothing for me D; I’m gutted I can’t play Resistance.

@platformjunkie hopefully expands to more countries

@IceClimbersMain Cloud streaming is so much better than Remote play though. First of all there’s no need for a console connection. You can access the cloud directly, similar to Xbox cloud gaming. Your connection with remote play is much more prone to disturbance, especially when playing from far away. Unless you only play in front of ur PS5, which kind of defeats the purpose of having a handheld in my opinion.
With remote play you’re also limited to the games you have installed on ur console.

Edit: Having read ur comment again, i may have misunderstood what you meant. You said you’d rather stream from ur PS5, did u mean you’d rather use Remote play? Atleast that what i thought u meant.

Edit: Never mind, you're saying you’d rather play native instead of stream, i must have misread. But if thats the case, why did you get the Portal?

@Nopushonlybush That sucks man, i do hope Sony expands to your region as well. Actually dont understand why they still havent!

@LogicStrikesAgain ikr? People will find a way to complain about sony portables since the days of the ps vita hahah

@Loamy first party pro patches have rocked. As have some third party (FF7R). Look at the developers who have the crappy patches. They’re the one to blame. Not Sony.

@AgentGuapo 100%, my guy. Even Pro patches that PushSquare have taken issue with (Dragon's Dogma) are a huge improvement from the base console. It's the select few that are disappointing.

I'm looking forward to this. As I understand it, my ps5 does not need to be on/ logged in etc for me to make use of the portal.

So, I can save on the electricity bill when streaming to the portal whilst the misses watches who knows what on the TV

Or, (and this could be the big draw for me), I can get my PlayStation fix whilst the PS5 is being used by the kids.

@zupertramp Didn’t even think about that, must have been possible all along. Makes you wonder why they’ve waited until now!

About time, but no dual screen pass. No android can go without but still pass.

Is the cloud streaming feature always going to be for Premium members only, or is it just the Beta that is limited to Premium?

Only if you pay for the most expensive PSPlus tier?

Wasn't paying for the device itself enough?

@Voltan
Premium is for the beta test. There's always the possibility that lower tiers and possibly even your gaming library could be streamable on the cloud eventually. At least, if Sony were smart this is where they'd go next.

This is awesome news.The Portal is one of my most used gaming devices, particularly around fall season when sports are not on television. I absolutely love it.

Couldn't care less what happens with the portal, but I do hope this feature gets rolled out to the playstation app or over web browsers.

@tameshiyaku Web browsers? Do you mean on PC? Because Playstation Cloud is already available for PC