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method114 on 09 January 2025
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Xxain said:
BasilZero said:

Yeah..they arent gonna do that because people would instead buy the Portal over the PS5 or PS5 Pro.

Besides the games would have to be optimized to run on the Portal which as far as I can see is impossible because everything is streamed.

Also it only has 6 GB internal storage and you cannot expand that or use an external memory device.

So in other words, you wouldnt be able to download any of the games to begin with.

The PS Portal is basically a glorified streaming device that only streams PS5 games mainly until they released a patch to stream PS Classic titles.

What? I am not saying actually DL the data to the console, but to allow you to Steam games you bought. I believe that Visions of Mana has that option after you buy it; You can DL the game or just stream it. 

If Portal could DL whole games I doubt SONY would be concerned with users picking Portal over PS5. The whole entire marketing around VITA was console games on the go. I seem to remember tons of games having PS4 and Vita options. 

The issue here is it's not just a PS decision. You have to get permission from the publisher in order to have the right to stream the game also. As clouding gaming becomes more and more popular with both PS and Xbox pursuing it you are going to see more and more publishersdevs requesting more money from MSPS in order to give those rights away.

This is the issue Xbox is facing right now with their own cloud gaming and why their promise to allow you stream all the games you owned was a foolish one to make. They knew they needed permission from the devspublishers to do that and I guess they just assumed everyone would give it to them no questions asked. Now you have Sega thinking of entering the subcloud streaming market as well so they'll be less incentivized to sell those rights to anyone.

It's also one of the pitfalls of MS moving to PC with a console like interface. MS does not have the rights to just move everyone's game over becuase technically they would have to give everyone PC licenses for all the games they own and MS needs permission to do that. This is why I have doubt about their PC/Hybrid console rumors I feel like the licensing situation would be hell for them.