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[onQ123]

Give them a central place to provide their service.

Like if publishers want to put their games on their own servers.

 

[Guardian Monkey]

They need another PlayStation tv device

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Give them a central place to provide their service.

Like if publishers want to put their games on their own servers.

PlayStation's whole business revolves around them having tight platform control.

 

[Iced Arcade]

for a fee... can't see them ever doing it for nothing and I don't see many services willing to pay.

 

[Dacvak]

Selling the Portal hardware isn't as valuable as keeping players locked into their ecosystem. So should they? No. Do I want them to? Of course.

 

[N1tr0sOx1d3]

They need another PlayStation tv device

Do they though? Why not just an app? Most TVs I'm sure are capable of installing an app and supporting Bluetooth controllers.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Zero reason for them to do this and doubt they ever will.

 

[vivftp]

The entire purpose of the Portal is to increase engagement on PSN to keep folks playing either via remote play or PS+ Premium. They want folks spending more time playing games obtained from PSN and dumping more money back into their ecosystem via game purchases, subscriptions and microtransactions.

Opening up the Portal to other services that bypass PSN and all the additional revenue/engagement Sony want would make no sense and would go against the entire reason they built the Portal.

 

[ReBurn]

I wouldn't use it for that if they did open it up. The portal would suck to hold and watch a movie on.