{"id":17987,"date":"2025-03-05T16:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/the-nintendo-switch-revolutionised-on-the-go-gaming-can-the-playstation-portal-do-the-same\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T16:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:37:24","slug":"the-nintendo-switch-revolutionised-on-the-go-gaming-can-the-playstation-portal-do-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/the-nintendo-switch-revolutionised-on-the-go-gaming-can-the-playstation-portal-do-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nintendo Switch revolutionised on-the-go gaming \u2013 can the PlayStation Portal do the same?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The PlayStation Portal offers a new way to play PS5 games at home or on the go. But it struggles to match the seamless gaming experience I yearn for<\/p>\n

Happy Monster Hunter Wilds week to all who celebrate: Capcom\u2019s thrilling action game has sold 8m units<\/a> in three days, which means that quite a lot of you are likely to be playing it. I\u2019m a huge fan of this series and am delighted by the latest entry<\/a>, but after filing the review last week, I\u2019ve barely had a minute to play it since it came out. Regular readers will know that this is a familiar problem for me: I have two kids, so my gaming time is tight, and the living room TV is very often in use.<\/p>\n

I anticipated this, so in the run-up to Monster Hunter Wilds\u2019 release, I spent \u00a3200 on a PlayStation Portal<\/a> \u2013 essentially a screen sandwiched between two halves of a PlayStation 5 controller. I can\u2019t decide whether it\u2019s one of the most unwieldy things that Sony has ever come out with, or one of the most elegant. It lets me stream games from my PS5, so the console can be whirring away under the TV and I can be on the sofa with my little screen, swinging a transforming axe at a dreadful octopus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nThe PlayStation Portal offers a new way to play PS5 games at home or on the go. But it struggles to match the seamless gaming experience I yearn for
\nHappy Monster Hunter Wilds week to all who celebrate: Capcom\u2019s thrilling action game has sold 8m units in three days, which means that quite a lot of you are likely to be playing it. I\u2019m a huge fan of this series and am delighted by the latest entry, but after filing the review last week, I\u2019ve barely had a minute to play it since it came out. Regular readers will know that this is a familiar problem for me: I have two kids, so my gaming time is tight, and the living room TV is very often in use.
\nI anticipated this, so in the run-up to Monster Hunter Wilds\u2019 release, I spent \u00a3200 on a PlayStation Portal \u2013 essentially a screen sandwiched between two halves of a PlayStation 5 controller. I can\u2019t decide whether it\u2019s one of the most unwieldy things that Sony has ever come out with, or one of the most elegant. It lets me stream games from my PS5, so the console can be whirring away under the TV and I can be on the sofa with my little screen, swinging a transforming axe at a dreadful octopus. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The PlayStation Portal offers a new way to play PS5 games at home or on the go. But it struggles to match the seamless gaming experience I yearn for Happy Monster Hunter Wilds week to all who celebrate: Capcom\u2019s thrilling action game has sold 8m units in three days, which means that quite a lot …<\/p>\n

The Nintendo Switch revolutionised on-the-go gaming \u2013 can the PlayStation Portal do the same?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17987"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}