The bugs won't stop me from Playing some games...
(But the iffy WiFi in this Valley will)
First pic was in an Onsen.
What's the places you brought your Portal to and someone said "you should enjoy the view instead"?
Enjoying some Yakuza LAD in an Onsen.... (not in the water of course)
Wifi and Life is Good.
No Ragrets.
Decided to get it as was going on a trip to Thailand and was staying in a Hotel and then resort for 2 weeks.
Biggest tips I can give to someone thinking of buying this.
WiFi - Needs to be WiFi 5 upwards, and the hotel wifi with passwords usually have those speeds.
Stayed in a hotel with a no password wifi... COULD NOT CONNECT at all....
Went to a cafe opposite the hotel and BOOM, wifi 5ghz and I was connected.
DO NOT USE DATA ROAMING with your phone and hotspot it to your Portal, it will EAT your data like no other.. use it ONLY to test out your remote play, or to at least turn your PS5 at home to standby if you somehow to connect and accidentally turned on your PS5 remotely.
And sometimes the carrier is IFFY. I could connect sometimes then couldn't.
Ergonomics - I found that playing casual/JRPGS with the Portal is a dream. Grinding my YakuzaLAD was pure joy.. anything that is "passive" is great.
Marvel Rivals on the other hand is a nightmare.
The sticks are weirdly placed and Analog thumbs are too high, creating an unusual sensitivity that makes my Celestial usual play into Gold Ranking noob..
You get used to the handling but its not the same as a good old Dualsense.
Screen and video feed - 1080 at best, with no weird artefacts. Not like my Vita but again, casual playing won't make you pixel peep or hate its not 4k.
BUT...... if your connection is bad... damn... the signal video you get is TERRIBLE... not the screens fault. It's like I am watching old school VCDs...
Overall: Get it for casual gaming if you know you will have good wifi. Lying on my bed, sofa when the tv is not available.
And The PS subscription (highest tier) apparently gives you access to the cloud streaming selected games. But in my country its no use. I can only remote play games from my console...
But no ragrets. Lol. Playing my PS5 remotely makes me smile knowing this is something I kind of wanted as a kid...