wizardbeard , 10 months ago

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?

To expand on this, if you already have an android phone and any console controller with a usb port on it, you can just order a phone mount for the controller and a cheap adapter cable. Then you have PS remote play, xbox’s game streaming, moonlight PC streaming, steam streaming, any emulator that runs on android (most halfway recent phones can do all consoles pre-ps2, and higher grade phones can even do some PS2 and Switch games), a good bunch of sourceports of old games to android, and a decent handful of android games that have controller support.

That’s far more functionality for far cheaper. Been enough to satisfy my desires for a steam deck too, as I only miss out on PC games when I’m traveling, and there’s plenty to emulate to keep me busy.

Really confused at who at Sony sees any profit potential here, unless they’re just doing this to burn through really old android phone cpus and screens they have a surplus of.