Sony announced its new portable console, "Project Q" - and it's streaming oriented

[Veho]

After months of rumors and speculation, Sony has officially announced its new handheld gaming device, codename "Project Q". It will have an 8'' screen, same gamepad hardware as the PS5's DualSense... and it will be aimed at streaming games from your PS5.

No word on any standalone gaming capabilities. In fact, it is strongly implied if not outright confirmed it won't have any.

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No word on any other specs, or indeed if it will have any specs to speak of; it's literally just a controller and a screen.

So, sadly, Sony is not jumping back into the handheld gaming fray, and we won't be getting a PS2, PS5P or PS Re-Vita (or whatever you would call it), at least not this time.

Source:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/24/23736595/sony-project-q-playstation-handheld-official-showcase


( @Chary , @Prans , wanna write this up more nicely for the front page? I can't be arsed.)
Disregard that, I just saw the Sony showcase writeup.

 

[nightstalker27nl]

project q is allready dead on arrival

 

[ZoNtendo]

so it's like the WiiU gamepad but worse

 

[Lostbhoy]

so it's like the WiiU gamepad but worse

Was just about to say that!!

I don't understand the reason for this? Is this just for off tv play? Is there a boundary tying you to use it within your PS5??

 

[master801]

For all 3 PS5 owners, huh.

How are they gonna sell this if most people can't even afford to buy a PS5 lmao

Makes me wonder if this is just gonna interface with PlayStation Plus Premium's "Cloud Streaming" feature so customers don't have to actually own a console. Although I don't really see the benefit of this other than having a dedicated screen and controller when a computer, or even a phone-- can do the same thing.

 

[tech3475]

Just release an official clip and let people use their smartphones or tablets.

 

[k0walski]

Being personally a long standing PSN user (and PS4 slim owner), I'd rather stick to my SD than buy Q... Why? It's just a wireless LCD screen with joystick attached?! I actually expected more from Sony...

 

[duwen]

Sony displaying Nintendo levels of not understanding their consumer base.

 

[ChronosNotashi]

Oh joy. A handheld gaming system that requires a home console to actually use it, and it likely won't have any games that it can play without streaming them from said console.

Once again, Sony deciding to try to copy something Nintendo did that ended up being successful (the Switch), while at the same time COMPLETELY MISSING THE DAMN POINT BY MILES! I expect some diehard Playstation fans to grab it out of brand loyalty, but otherwise it's DOA.

 

[Bladexdsl]

they should have called it: the sony U

 

[Veho]

they should have called it: the sony U

Suny.

 

[Scarlet]

Just release an official clip and let people use their smartphones or tablets.

They pretty much already did that:

https://playbackbone.com/gb/playstation/

 

[ZeroT21]

Didn't know we'd get another WIIU

 

[Kioku]

It honestly looks like an experiment performed by an amateur who had a spare Dualsense controller lying around. This looks awful.

They had an opportunity to give us another portable console to supplement the PlayStation experience, but instead got lazy and aim to give us this. We already have “official” methods of streaming our PlayStation games… ridiculous…

 

[JeepX87]

That's for privileged Playstation fanboys, lol.

 

[AkiraKurusu]

So it won't do shit for those who haven't bought a PS5, and even if it did it'd need to reduce image resolution and sound quality (like the Switch does in handheld mode)...yeah, no, fuck off.
I already never undock my Switch, since reduced capabilities is just garbage, especially since I never travel - why would I want a Sony Switch but worse?

And "streaming"...that'd eat up my data plan real quick - it's part of why Google Stadia (anyone remember that?) was such a humungous flop. Who the fuck has a big enough data plan to support continuous 4K interactive streaming, or even 1920p? 1280p?

Constantly streaming from a central source is utterly impractical until we've all got much better Internet - if it just downloaded the files from the source and used its own internal hardware to run games (like I believe Xbox Game Pass does, unlike Stadia), then it wouldn't be almost impossible at present, but apparently this stupid thing doesn't have hardware outside of 'display'. What a massive joke.

Post automatically merged: May 27, 2023

In short:

 

[17hitcombooo]

what a wasted effort

 

[CMDreamer]

Sony is such a disgusting copycat, shame on their lack of originality.

 

[Votterbin]

How much you wanna bet they're gonna charge some outrageous price for this thing? Logitech is getting away with $350 somehow so I won't put it past Sony to slap $450 on it.

 

[Cystra]

project q is allready dead on arrival

"just get a vita" makes sense in this context.