If you want the flexibility to play your PS5 pretty much anywhere within your home, then the PlayStation Portal is a smart buy. ![]() So, if you want a gaming gadget for playing on the go, then the Portal isn’t what you’re after, perhaps you should consider the Steam Deck OLED instead? Should you buy a PlayStation Portal? To Sony’s credit, the Portal’s marketing materials explicitly explain it requires “home Wi-Fi” to function, and it’s never been positioned as a Nintendo Switch killer. Last month, I took it on a trip to see how it would fare with hotel Wi-Fi, and the results were extremely poor. It’s also worth noting that the PlayStation Portal is not a travel device. Even if your internet speeds are well above Sony’s recommendations (5 MB/s minimum, 15 MB/s recommended) you could still face issues as my colleague Nick Pino did when reviewing the PlayStation Portal. That’s why I suggest if possible, trying out a friend's Portal before committing to buying one. It’s impossible to know how the PlayStation Portal will react to a specific network environment unless you’ve got it in your hands and can test it out for yourself. I’ve had a relatively smooth experience all things considered, but I’ve heard stories from colleagues who have endured the opposite and found the device almost unusable. There’s no escaping the fact that your mileage will vary. 15.For as much as I’ve praised the PlayStation Portal above, I do feel that the device comes with a fairly significant caveat. In addition to these games, subscribers can still get three of August’s Games with Gold: Calico for Xbox One and Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine for Xbox 360, until Aug 31, and ScourgeBringer for Xbox One until Sept. Double Kick Heroes ($21.99 ERP): Sept.Here are the games and their availability windows: The two Xbox One selections for September are 2021’s dark fantasy action game Gods Will Fall, and 2020’s unusual Double Kick Heroes, an indie title that combines the rhythm game and shoot-’em-up genres. Microsoft announced Xbox 360 games’ retirement from Games With Gold in July, saying the program had “reached the limit of our ability to bring Xbox 360 games to the catalogue.” But players who claimed these games may continue to download, keep, and play them, regardless of whether they maintain an active Xbox Live Gold subscription. ![]() The last original Xbox title offered by Games With Gold, before September, was Conker: Live & Reloaded in July 2021. It was among the last batch of 76 Xbox and Xbox 360 titles made backward compatible (with Xbox One and Xbox Series X) in November, which effectively ended that campaign begun in 2015. The puzzle-platformer is the sequel to 2007’s Portal, which showed up as a Games With Gold selection in June 2019 with Portal: Still Alive (a version with extra puzzles).Ĭuriously, the other throwback console title offered in September is Thrillville, which is an original Xbox title. Valve’s Portal 2, which launched on Xbox 360 in April 2011, hardly needs much introduction. Starting October, Games With Gold will only be offering Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers access to Xbox One and Xbox Series X titles. ![]() ![]() Xbox Live sunsets almost a decade of Xbox 360 giveaways in September with Portal 2.
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