Cloud Gaming on the PlayStation Portal Isn’t the Exciting Step Forward We’d Hoped for

However, although Sony Own specifications In order to access this feature, the minimum connection speed to establish a cloud session is 5 Mbps, to stream the game at 720p resolution is 7 Mbps, and to stream at 1080p Full HD is 13 Mbps (the maximum resolution of the portal screen). These numbers seem to be quite large. underestimated actually Need to play any content from the cloud.

Overall speeds were slowest in the coffee shop environment, but still reached the stated threshold for 720p streaming, and even connecting to the service was impossible. The library performed better, connected and started streaming games –Spider-Man: Miles Morales— but the image quality isn’t really consistent, reliable, playable quality. Likewise, mobile tethering performed best, but it still took a few attempts to connect to the cloud game directory, and even then, video quality still occasionally dropped.

Now, one of the biggest benefits that cloud gaming promises is that the capabilities of the hardware you’re playing on don’t matter. Whether it’s a pixel art indie game or the latest ray-traced AAA game, the hard work is done remotely and you just get an interactive video stream. still, Miles Morales is one of the most visually gorgeous games in the PlayStation library, even rendering at 1080p on the Portal screen rather than the full 4K resolution it runs natively on the PS5 console. Developer Insomniac’s vision for New York City is so detailed, with the network of skyscrapers swinging between animations so fast, that the sheer amount of visual information can be overwhelming. Was Caused some issues in providing a stable stream to PS Portal.

I try Gris Instead, it’s a beautiful but minimalist 2D platformer with watercolors and the most demanding graphical effects, but all the same problems arise regardless of the connection speed. Even more annoyingly, although the system settings (accessed by swiping in from the upper right corner of the Portal touch screen) indicate that video quality is transmitted at 1080p resolution, the on-screen text in the pause menu is noticeably blurry and the entire image appears to be at a lower resolution than The system seems think It’s showing.

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What about at home? Despite being able to connect to public Wi-Fi for “regular” streaming from your own PS5, the Portal has always been positioned as a second-screen accessory, primarily to free up space on your big TV. Even if the cloud beta ostensibly excludes the PS5, online requirements are always better on a dedicated dedicated broadband network, right? Well, kind of…

Testing PS Portal’s cloud credentials on two private home networks still had mixed results. The first one, the speed test result is 574 Mbps. Portal can connect to the cloud service to browse the directory, but the startup Miles Morales Received a message stating that the game “cannot be launched due to poor connection quality.” Despite being in the same room as the router, the portal disconnected, indicating that it was not powerful enough to function.