Been on the fence since it launched in 2023. It did not help that it was out of stock everywhere in NYC that time too!

Last week, I saw one last stock at my LGS and I caved in. Man, my Miles Morales backlog is suddenly 50% through. I’ve been playing more on my PS5 as well. And the best part? I got the 30th Anniversary Edition for $300 and they offered a 0% installment plan for 12 months. 🥰

Runs pretty good, minimal input lag. Fun enough 😁

What a time to be alive

If I’m in the USA but purchase PS Plus Premium on an account with a Japan region, will I be able to stream PS Plus games via cloud streaming from servers located in Japan? Or does the account region not matter, and the game will be streamed from US servers? Do I need to look for a region as close as possible?

I’m considering buying a Portal. If I were to stream a game on the cloud (which I have not tried yet), such as GTA for instance, would my progress be saved to the console as well? On the PS5, my games are all saved directly on and played from the console, not the cloud.

Hey yall, I was just having a normal play session while laying in bed when portal started having ghost touches right where the touchpads are. Haven’t been able to fix with a clean, or a reset. Anybody else have this issue before, and are there any solutions outside sending it back to Sony? Thanks.

This may help people who have latency issues with their ps portal and is unplayable due to crashes. If you want to skip my backstory and want to jump on to the fixes directly go to my 2nd paragraph. For context I bought a ps portal couple of years ago and it has been unplayable for both remote play and cloud streaming when it got released. I somehow kept it, waiting for an update to resolve my issue and forgot about it. Recently wolverine was released and i tried playing it on the ps portal but it kept crashing after 10-15 minutes, making it unplayable. I dug around on what could possibly be wrong as I was pretty sure sony as a reputable company would not sell a defect product and i have been following this reddit page where i see lot of people who play it without any issues and love it calling it a dadstation made me want to resolve this issue even more.

Anyways, I have a verizon wifi, different providers might have similar steps. For verizon type 192.168.1.1 on your URL/browser, different providers have different admin numbers you can search google for it, then login by using the network settings password that is behind your router. It seems like verizon usually joins different networks into one so you have to first disable SON and rename multiple networks like 2.4ghz, 5ghz, 6ghz. Then on the wifi settings for 5ghz disable WWM power saver which might affect streaming as it helps portable devices to save battery which might affect portals connectivity issue. And also, under the 5ghz settings for Security you might see WPA2WPA3, you have to just select WPA2 for it as this will stop the "handshake" issue which forces devices to switch from wpa2 and wpa3 security every 10-15 mins affecting streaming. Then hit apply settings on the wifi settings, restart your ps portal and connect your ps portal to 5ghz. That resolved my connectivity issue. Happy gaming.

I got a portal yesterday and I’ve been having trouble getting the update to install. Have asked PS support but they’ve said it’ll take up to 5 days to get a response, so thought I’d ask here in case anyone has any ideas!
It connects to the internet fine, but fails to install the software update no matter what method I use (tried WiFi on 5 and 2.4 GHz, and on two different hotspots). I’ve restarted it multiple times, as well as a hard restart, but no luck. Anyone have any suggestions?

I previously had a ps portal and in the end I sold it as I didn’t use it that much but also because I just couldn’t get it to work properly and kept getting the yellow warning in the right hand corner.

I’m getting the urge to buy another one, however i want to make sure I get the optimum set up. What is more important, having the ps5 hard wired? Or a better router.

For context I’m in the uk and with EE and get 900mbs and have the Hub 7 pro with WiFi 7. Having it hardwired is difficult just because of the layout of the room and if I run it along the skirting boards it would need to go along the bottom of the stairs and across the front door so it’s not ideal. I’m pulling my carpet up soon so I could run it under the carpet. Or would I get a good performance upgrade from a better router? I’ve always ever just used the hubs that come with the BB providers so don’t have much experience. Any help or advice would be appreciated

Hello everybody,

I got a PS5 at home an just bought my PS portal for when I’m away.
I bought Fc27 on my PS5 with disc version but when I remote play it with my Ps Portal it’s very laggy

And experienced that the games I can stream from the premium are not laggy at all.
So my question is:

Is it possible to cloud stream Fc27 the same way was the other games without using remote play?

If yes, please tell me how to do it so I can play without the lag.

Thank you

I’m getting around 3-5 ms of latency sometimes reaches 10ms and 13-15 bitrate. Games feel very stiff unplayable for me I gave it a good game session of about 3 hours and I got a headache from trying to control my character in various games. Also my hands hurt after 30 minutes of using it strange since ps5 is my favorite controller

This may have been discussed before I’m not sure but I’m having problems connecting to my PS5 when I use hotspot when I first got the portal it worked and for the past year and a half. I’ve never been able to use it outside of my house. If I’m not on my home Wi-Fi any information or walk-throughs will be appreciated.

Playing in bed. Just switched back to Samsung s26ultra and look at how easy it is to play on hotspot with no lagging or issues and with remote play too. Iphone hotspot is a joke.

Has anyone had this issue, or know how to fix it? It says "ready to play" and I press X, but instead of opening up the PS home screen with the game selection, it just opens to an empty black background. Attached is a 19 second video of what I'm talking about

Hello! I was just wondering, is it normal that my Portal's battery drains so fast? I just bought it used from Vinted. I play it roughly 45mins/1hr a day, and it drains around 22% per session. I've played only in remote mode, not streaming, games such AC Black Flag Res., Crimson Dessert and Watch Dogs 1. I'm just doubting if this battery consumption is normal. I've disabled the controller and the mic button LEDs, and I've disabled the triggers feedback.

Bought my Portal on Marketplace for $50. The owner said the right stick didn’t work so I swapped it out with a $15 replacement, cleaned it up and good as new! Playing Arc Raiders via remote play on the couch while my fiance watched TV is a luxury I didn’t know I could have. Streamed Marvel Rivals with PS Plus premium and healing felt great!

I just wanted to share a relatively inexpensive solution I found to make my internet connection stronger and more stable for Remote Play.

My router is in my upstairs bedroom, while my PS5 setup is in the basement, where I don’t have any Ethernet ports. I live in an older house with plaster walls, and running an Ethernet cable through the house would have been difficult and impractical.

I originally bought a refurbished TP Link Deco mesh system to improve the WiFi in my basement, but the connection still wasn’t as stable as I wanted. I ended up buying a goCoax MoCA 2.5 adapter with a 2.5 GbE Ethernet port on Amazon for around $60.

If you have a coax port near your router, this could be a good option. I have a Verizon G3100 router, which has built in MoCA support, so I only needed to purchase one adapter. Essentially, the coax cable connects to my router upstairs, and the adapter connects to the coax port in my basement, giving me a wired Ethernet connection for my PS5 without having to run a new cable through the house.

Since connecting the adapter, my basement Deco has been able to use the coax connection for its backhaul instead of relying on a wireless signal through multiple plaster walls. You can definitely just run an Ethernet cord from the MoCA adapter to your Ps5 without a mesh system as well. This has made my connection much more stable and improved my Remote Play experience. It was a relatively simple and affordable solution that let me keep my existing mesh setup without having to run Ethernet cables throughout the house. If you’re having similar issues with your connection, it’s definitely worth checking out.

Switched from Verizon to T-Mobile today because Verizon at least in my area has just gotten so bad with zero customer service. Before the switch my hotspot worked fine and now it won’t. Looked up the old YouTube guides and just nada. I can see my portal actively connect to the hotspot but then it always says can’t connect. Yet I can see the hotspot icon on my phone lighting up because something is connecting.

iPhone 17 pro max
iOS 27.2 public beta 2
Portal has latest update
Connection is 4 bar 5GUC

Just wondering if yall have any recent tricks up your sleeve. Waiting for hours at ballet and school pick up is way smoother when I can Rook run Marathon or play some Ghosts of “insert title here”

I bought a ps5 pro just for gta 6. My dad has a major heart surgery that is going to take place in the next couple of weeks. I will be staying with him while he recovers. I’m thinking of getting a portal and playing that while I’m with him so if he needs anything I’m right there with him. Will I be able to play the game on it? So far I understand you need a ps plus to cloud stream. But does that include gta since I have it digitally? And if the PlayStation is in the same house/wifi that I’m in can’t I just remote play?

So my portal acts weird. It connects but then the next second disconnects
I have a ethernet cable coming tomorrow to see if that helps but the thing that bugs me is that it connects initially
It just disconnects a second later
I have to start the ps5 my self and then it connects.
There is a comment posted by me with the a video of the problem.
Any advice is welcome

So know that we have the PS5 with Homebrew readily available. I was wondering how soon it would be for the PlayStation portal to receive the ability to have Homebrew as well. Ideally, I'd want to make it a device that I can stream from my computer. That way if I wanted to I don't have to have it hooked to the PS5 and I can have it be more of a second screen that I can use for other applications in my house