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[onQ123]

What a Playstation Portal is really capable of & how to do it all. The Playstation Portal went nuclear with the last update, unlocking the ability to stream directly from the cloud. With that update came a number of new possibilities and ways to play the Portal. This video explains everything you can now do including couch co-op, online multiplayer, account sharing and what kind of PSN accounts you need to do it all with.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

They need to drop the price of this to 150 and release a 200 dollar OLED model.

If they were able to release something with 120hz and bump up remote play from 60hz and give it VRR, I think that would be a really compelling product too.

 

[onQ123]

They need to drop the price of this to 150 and release a 200 dollar OLED model.

If they were able to release something with 120hz and bump up remote play from 60hz and give it VRR, I think that would be a really compelling product too.

Why would they drop the price of Portal when DualSense is $75? Portal isn't a device that a company would sell at a lose to build a user base to sell software, it's meant to make money by being a device that people want to have.

if they lower the price it will be years from now but for now it's selling perfectly fine .

It's not even on-sale but it's been selling above other gaming hardware through the holidays shopping season.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Why would they drop the price of Portal when DualSense is $75? Portal isn't a device that a company would sell at a lose to build a user base to sell software, it's meant to make money by being a device that people want to have.

if they lower the price it will be years from now but for now it's selling perfectly fine .

It's not even on-sale but it's been selling above other gaming hardware through the holidays shopping season.

What does a Dual Sense being 75 dollars mean relative to the Portal?

With PS+ subscriptions, you can easily offsets a 50 dollar price cut, not to mention the increased engagement numbers. Not sure why you think they'd be selling it a loss even if they dropped the price.

Once it is out of beta, I wouldn't be surprised if they drop the price and sell a premium OLED model for the previous price.

It will give people a much lower entry price into building a PSN Digital library.

 

[onQ123]

What does a Dual Sense being 75 dollars mean relative to the Portal?

With PS+ subscriptions, you can easily offsets a 50 dollar price cut, not to mention the increased engagement numbers. Not sure why you think they'd be selling it a loss even if they dropped the price.

Once it is out of beta, I wouldn't be surprised if they drop the price and sell a premium OLED model for the previous price.

It will give people a much lower entry price into building a PSN Digital library.

Because there is a whole DualSense Controller connected to a 8" screen & SoC .

This make the money back through PS+ is backwards when people are already buying the Portal at $199 & the money from PS+ subs would not be pure profit so they would be giving up $50 upfront to people who may never use PS+ Premium or drop it after a few months.

Right now there is no reason that Portal should be sold at an lost , if they start selling people cloud versions of games like Switch & they actually sell well then maybe it would make sense to cut the price

 

[Mibu no ookami]

Because there is a whole DualSense Controller connected to a 8" screen & SoC .

This make the money back through PS+ is backwards when people are already buying the Portal at $199 & the money from PS+ subs would not be pure profit so they would be giving up $50 upfront to people who may never use PS+ Premium or drop it after a few months.

Right now there is no reason that Portal should be sold at an lost , if they start selling people cloud versions of games like Switch & they actually sell well then maybe it would make sense to cut the price

In your mind you think Sony breaks even on Dual Sense controllers sold at 75 dollars? They routinely sell them on sale for like 50 dollars... They're making at the VERY least 35 dollars profit per controller sold if not more. They have a huge profit margin on the Portal just like they do on the Dual Sense Edge.

PS+ revenue, particularly PS+ premium revenue is probably the highest margin product sony sells. If even 10 percent of the people who purchase the Portal specifically because of a price drop get PS+ premium, it would easily offset the lost margin on the Portal itself but as I mentioned before also increases engagement on PS as opposed to someone buying a different device.

Anyways, not going to go back and forth with you on this.