I have massively better quality, stability, and latency with the RemotePlay app over the internet from PS5 than I do with Steam in home streaming actually in my house. It’s still not good enough for high precision games, but Steam isn’t close.
PS4 can’t stream for shit because it can’t do the encoding.
No, the OP did.
Edited for clarity.
It would be a handheld console that would play their console library. They’d beat the Steam Deck’s sales volume as fast as they could manufacture them. Also, the Steam deck doesn’t do the triggers, which is a meaningful loss in plenty of PS5 games.
My actual point, though, was that the build quality for the price is really good.
I love my Steam deck, and bounce between how heavily I use it vs the switch* or PS5 depending on the games I’m into at the moment. But misrepresenting its utility as a modern living room PC (like the OP) doesn’t help anyone and is just going to leave people disappointed.
The PS5 is probably my smallest library (and mostly PS4 games, a lot of which were before I had a PC), but it’s definitely plenty capable and I don’t regret the purchase at all. (The controller is also the coolest non graphics addition to gaming I’ve experienced in a long time).
*The switch desperately needs a 3rd party replacement for the controllers, though, because the joycons are bad brand new.
I won’t buy a portal. I probably would have bought a “PS4 in portal form factor” for twice the price, but streaming isn’t worth it.
But I have a friend who did, and have had my hands on it, and it is a genuinely really high quality implementation of the mediocre concept.
PS remote play is fantastic (for what remote play is. Streaming still sucks.)
If I’m playing modern games on a TV? PS5 easy. But still the pro over the deck.
I love my deck. As the handheld it’s intended to be. It’s not powerful enough for an acceptable experience running a AAA 3D game on a TV screen. You can ignore the resolution and artifacts and just generally low visual quality and poor frame rate on a small screen, because playing the games portably at all is a huge step up. You can’t ignore any part of it on a TV. It’s fine for indie games, older games, 2D stuff, etc.
But it doesn’t have the performance for a good living room experience if you’re looking to play modern AAA games. (Ignoring all their bullshit rootkits on PC that block a lot of multiplayer games out completely, which are the games you have to pay for on PS. You just can’t play most of them on Linux at all.)
I’m optimistic about the idea that game developers will stop being allowed to install fucking malware.
I don’t trust Microsoft at all, but you shouldn’t be able to consent to that bullshit in an EULA no one has ever read.
I think OS is fine.
Making specs public is a privacy issue.
Any real time gate keeps me from playing the way I want to, by definition. I will not buy or play a game which has any version of a real time gate unless it’s a separate game mode I have no interest in.
Hitman elusive targets? Whatever. They don’t touch anything real. They’re “not part” of the actual game. But the second it interacts with the game I have zero interest. I don’t care if the key is free and there are no microtransactions. The core premise of controlling when, in real time, I’m allowed to interact with content is not OK.
I don’t really care how “important” it is.
There’s no format of it I’m willing to consider tolerating. It’s inherently toxic design for anything but a specific type of MMO with a persistent world and economy. If they remove it I’ll consider the game again.
I was super interested in this game from the stuff I saw of it.
Then I saw in reviews that there were a bunch of real time gated things. I don’t know the specific mechanics, but any version of that at all is unacceptable to me.
Even if we play make believe that they make any difference at all (they don’t), it would still be unforgivable to install malware on someone’s computer to prevent cheating in a computer game.
Maybe he’s just enthusiastic about a game that does something he’s into?
What do you think emulation is?
Copying your own copy of a game and using tools for compatibility is what we’re talking about, is protected, and already has the case law demonstrating so.