Since Playstation Portal was announced, the press and players agreed on an obvious assessment from the very approach of the device: We are not looking at an independent laptop, but rather an additional screen and complementary to a Playstation 5. It does not allow you to play titles independently, such as a Steam Deck or a Nintendo Switch, but rather to transmit to the screen that we have in our hands what is working on the desktop console, without having to have it lit.
That may change with a new update that Sony itself has revealed on the official Playstation blog: starting today, and if you have a subscription to the highest Playstation Plus rate, Premium, you can enjoy it on the Portal of a catalog of games to play in the cloud, regardless of whether you own a PS5. That is, for the first time the device is detached from its older desktop sister, becoming a de facto laptop, although still with its limitations. At the time we commented that the Portal had the technical capacity to function as independent hardware and this is the proof.
Playstation Portal streaming can support, if the game and connection allow it, games that move at 1080p and 60 fps. In the same way Cloud game storage will also be availablewhich will allow you to save games in the Portal and continue games on the Playstation 5. At the moment, we are facing a beta, but everything indicates that it will be a feature that can be enjoyed regularly and habitually in the service.
As for the limitations, we are not talking about a machine that allows us to access our already purchased games and do streaming with them, but streaming with an abundant but, ultimately, limited number of games provided by Sony. At the moment, too, this novelty only works with PS5 games, without the possibility of playing PS4 or PS3 titles. Among the games included are hits like ‘Ghost of Tsushima’, ‘Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales’ or ‘Ratchet & Clank’, but we are still waiting for the definitive leap that allows us to log in to Portal and access our game library.
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