Super neat. It’s a really comfortable and enjoyable controller with a tablet attached. If people can keep the original functionality whilst also adding more options like this, that would just make it better for everyone
Neat trick, but the device is already of questionable value (a portable device that doesn’t work outside your house). Jailbreaking it doesn’t really add much functionality. 6GB storage isn’t particularly useful in 2024.
It doesn’t exist to be anything but a remote connection to your PS5. It’s an in-home television alternative.
Everyone clowns on this thing, but it makes perfect sense for Sony: it doesn’t split the platform, it doesn’t require infrastructure, and if you don’t buy it, they don’t care. Its market is anyone who went ‘oh neat, now I can play from the office’ or ‘now I can play while sportsball is on.’ If you don’t have an immediate use-case for it - then don’t buy it. You won’t bother the people who do.
I’d think companies like Sony do care if people buy or not
It’s a niche gizmo they’re selling for a healthy profit. The break-even point has to be very low. They want some people to buy it. But they don’t care if you buy it.
They don’t need to spend money supporting it because it’s strictly local. If it was a new PSP, there’d be a whole storefront, and updates, and complex risk assessment for how much to spend for expected returns. There’d be a huge marketing push to ensure they hit some lofty goal for sales figures.
But this is a split controller glued to a shite Android tablet. It’s low-risk. It could have sold zero units and they’d shrug off a minor loss. They don’t expect it to sell a zillion units, and they don’t need it to sell a zillion units. It’s there for anyone who wants one.
I don’t think developing and selling a whole hardware device is quite so trivial, but I also doubt that it would mean they don’t mind taking losses on it. This is not a new market that would be worth risking a loss to get a headstart, people could even get the same experience with… a tablet and a split controller, which has a lot more functionality.
I don’t know what’s your point with “they don’t care if you buy it”. Of course they don’t have a department keeping track of one single guy. Sounds like you are taking criticism of this device personally.
Having a device that could stream only from PS5 for 200$ is not a good value. And the limitation is artificial.
You can buy a handheld that could do the same, while also stream from your own PC and run games and emulators natively. Or you can buy something like Backbone One for your phone. They won’t have haptic feedback, but the controls still be good and you won’t be limited only to PS5.
Wait, it couldn’t play PSP games before‽ what good is it‽
It’s a streaming device. Think a WiiU gamepad except it can also operate over WiFi connections.
It’s a remote for your ps5 which doesn’t really work well outside of your local network.
It was a cut down Android OS that only served as a wireless monitor and controller for your PS5.
Oh wow. What a wonderful pile of waste of a device.
Yeah, it’s a novelty. Especially considering it only appears to have 8GB NAND total with 2GB taken up by the OS. For the price, although with a smaller screen (and is much more travel friendly), might as well buy an Ayn Neo or Retroid Pocket 4. Both would have substantially more CPU power, storage and ram.
Wow, now I can play my PSP games on the go!
Except comfortably!
<3 My OG PSP but the controls are butt.
This is a very expensive PSP.
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At the risk of sounding stupid: Would it be possible to turn it into a device that streams games from your computer?
Of course. If they can get a PSP emulator running, a streaming client is even easier.
