Most of my games are on PlayStation. The Steam Deck is clearly the more powerful and capable device, but it is also more expensive and I have no need for any of the extra features. I love the ergonomics of the PS Portal (even though it looks silly), the haptics, the huge screen, and it all comes with a seamless integration into the PlayStation ecosystem. Plus there is no need to take the case off of my phone every time I want to play it unlike the Backbone.

It’s definitely not for everyone but they call it a DadStation for a reason ☺️.

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Someone is trying to justify their purchase.... check back in a year

[–] aCosmicWave@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You are right. Even though I’ve had an absolute blast using the PS Portal daily ever since i got it I have made the difficult decision to return it because the internet told me that it’s actually not good.

[–] ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Prehaps an ayn loki zero might be up your valley as its a full fledged budget steamdeck type pc for the same price as a ps portal this might be perfect for you as you could have playstations desktop streaming app installed and some desktop games that'll run on the meager loki zeros hardware I hear it does a good job emulating games upto ps2 games

https://www.ayntec.com/products/loki-zero-preorder

Or of course a full fledged steamdeck