PlayStation Portal (Remote Play device) announced for $199, coming November 15th

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Conina said:

Biggerboat1 said:

And I believe said headphones are gonna be the same price as the portal... 

One of the main use cases for this thing is playing in the living room whilst someone else is using the TV, so headphones are a must. Not to mention that if you are in a setting where the portal speakers can be used, the audio quality will prob be very mediocre.

Ultimately Sony are trying to sell the portal + headphones for 400 - brutal. 

At least it has a headphone jack:

https://www.ign.com/articles/playstation-portal-hands-on-with-sonys-new-remote-play-handheld

Considering how cheap a bluetooth chip is this isn't good enough, this can only be seen as a short sighted decision to increase sales in other departments.

We already live in a world long after Apple and other phone manufacturers pretty much ensured most of the world uses bluetooth headphones. And even if you've bought a good pair like Sony's WH series, a lot of the audio quality enhancement features only work in wireless mode and sound noticeable worse using a headphone cable.