Project Q - Destined to fail?

[Jizz_Beard_thePirate]

Personally I think Sony should have went to route of Valve/Asus and released their own Steam Deck competitor with playstation goodies than release this project Q thing that's tied to the PS5. The issue with Q is that remote play is available not only on phones and tablets but on laptops and PCs. So if you have a laptop or macbook that isn't very powerful, you can still use remote play on it and have a much bigger screen to play with.

So it really limits the usefulness of Q because if all your devices can already do remoteplay, then do you really need another device that can do remoteplay? Where as a steam deck competitor, they could do a number of things with it. Playstation could have their own store front on PC where they could give you exclusive deals or tie in PS+ somehow. And they wouldn't necessarily be losing money on hardware either considering a company like Asus can make one without needing money from games.

The other question is the price. There are other streaming handles out there like the Logitech G cloud that can not only stream Remote Play from a PS5 but also Xcloud, Geforce Now, etc. So Q would need to be cheaper than that imo.

It just feels like Q is a waste of resources than anything else tbh.

Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 27 May 2023