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I personally always thought the Portal was a ridiculous product. Imagine paying lots of money to stream PS5 games and that's the ONLY thing it does. Meanwhile an Odin, a Steam Deck, a Legion Go/Ally, hell even your phones can stream PS5 and other system's games using Chiaki, PS Remote Play apps, Moonlight, Steam Link, etc. I was never able to fathom what would compel someone to buy such a goofy, ugly-looking device for such a niche use case, when most of us already have devices that enable this feature without needing to buy one of these things.

The Portal is cheaper than any device you listed and to play on a smaller display phone in similar fashion (a device everyone has) with no proper dualsense features, you have to spend another 100.

If you don't have the three devices in bold, a Portal is cheaper if you just want to stream PlayStation games (PS5, PS4 and the classics minus PS3) with the added bonus of haptics - on Amazon Odin 2 is £452.95+, Steam Deck is £368+, Legion Go is £599, Ally is £538.80, Portal is £199. The screen is bigger than a phone and if you want to use the phone for other things you can do (I typically play on my Portal and use my phone at the same time to play Ever Crisis, Clash of Clans, talk to people on WhatsApp or whatever takes my fancy).

As for its looks, ergonomically it is great and end of the day that - and its performance - is what matters. Shame it varies for people but personally I've got no complaints.

If you play a lot via PC, sure you might find more value in paying more for one of the other devices, but if you're a console player then the Portal is the better option at a fraction of the cost.

Well considering it's selling better than Sony expected, it must be attractive to more people than they thought.

I could use remote play on my phone or iPad but I already explained why those are inferior experiences. There's a huge difference between holding something just in your hands as opposed to setting up a tablet with a controller. Plus I don't want to use my phone for stuff like this.

As far as the portable PCs, I agree, if you have one, just use remote play on them. I haven't owned a PC in over 20 years and have no pc games so I'm not looking to spend more money on a device, plus money on pc games, when I can just use the portal and access my collection of games on PS5

When faced with a bad financial decision, or an even worse one, a Reeeseteran will ALWAYS pick the worse one.