Project Q is the upcoming streaming only device that will allow you to play games installed on a PlayStation 5 remotely.
It has not been announced if the handheld will allow streaming of games from the cloud and is rumoured to cost between £250 - £300.
Will you be picking one up later this year?
Probably not, but I think if people could get it to work with PC for game streaming, it’d be even more enticing so that you can use it for both PS5 and PC. Maybe someone like Valve will work with Sony.
Can’t the Steam Deck do that with the remote play app for Windows? Plus it’s also a gaming PC. I’m considering picking one up instead of a Project Q.
Yeah, pretty much. SteamDeck can basically do whatever any PC can do.
I’m trying to think what would make Project Q more enticing than it being just a device that’s locked to PS5 only, lol. If Sony released PC software for streaming to it, it would up the appeal quite a bit.
I already have a SteamDeck and stream to a phone, so I’m not in for a Project Q but I can think of some friends who’d probably get one of it had functionality outside of only the PS5.
Chiaki is the one they use and I think it works on Linux. Streaming (even locally) kind of sucks so I don’t use it, but I see it mentioned all the time.
I could see choosing this over the steam deck if it was like $100, but if it’s $300 I don’t see how you don’t get to $400 for the Steam Deck instead. You’ll probably want to add storage eventually, but even if you stuck to small indie/2D stuff that will fit in 64GB, that adds a huge amount of value.
It was recently on sale for $359 too and all models can have the storage upgraded, so I think the cheapest option is the best one to get and picking up a 512TB or 1TB drive to upgrade it.
In terms of cost effectiveness yeah. I don’t regret the 512 at all, though. Etched glass blows antiglare screen protectors out of the water.
2TB is getting real close to the price I could justify. I’m just tightening my belt for other bigger ticket stuff.
I’m expecting my next big ticket purchase to be Deckard if it ever comes out. That’ll be my entry into VR. I’m keeping eye an Deck compatible storage prices too. Hope storage keeps dropping.
I want the Apple Vision Pro lol. It’s a chunk of change, but the amount of tech they put in there is stupid, and ideally I’d get in some development to be on the ground floor when they make a more affordable version.
VR is nice. Skyrim was mind blowing. It just takes up too much space and where I have space isn’t where I use my computer so I fell off it.
I’d like to say I’d get a Vision Pro when it’s cooled off and maybe pick it up used but I wonder about the creation process. I think I heard about something with scanning the face when ordering so is it meant to be form fitting? I guess maybe I can get it used and have it adjusted/be scanned for a replacement padding.
I have to think there will be some method of scanning to replace the back at some point. While they’d obviously love it if everyone got their own, I can’t imagine they think it’s realistic enough that they’d try to force your hand and pass up on the software sales of multiple users on a device, especially when they can’t make all that many.
But worst case you can probably get a third party, not custom fit option at some point.
I’d love the vision too, but I’m going to wait for the vision air after couple generations haha. By then I’m sure VR will be absolutely amazing and blow out the first Gen vision pro and hopefully make it look ridiculously bulky by then and be a much lighter sleeker headset.
I’m guessing the “cheap” version will be significantly cut down. If you actually compare the tech in it to the rest of the space I think they’re pricing it pretty damn aggressively. There aren’t other options with just the resolution, but when there are they’re going to be $2k+ on their own. The resolution is the biggest thing I’ve been waiting for before moving from my vive. It makes a huge difference.
I’m guessing they’ll be best in class at low latency full quality passthrough for a good while, too. Nothing else out there is close to that. Add in how much more powerful it is than the other standalone options and Apple being miles ahead of anyone else in terms of AR development tools (solo developers can genuinely make AR stuff right now that works on the phone), and I’d really like to take the plunge. We’ll see how my self control works in the mean time and whether I can actually be there to pull the trigger right away, but there’s nothing out there comparable to what it is.
I use Chiaki4deck to play golf/adventure/strategy games. The input latency is less forgiving in racing/fps/survival genres.
Even phones can do easily with Steam and then just get a controller and a controller mount. For the price that is being asked of project q and not even being able to play games natively the phone and controller route is way I’d go instead dropping money on that. Way too much with the options available now with handhelds that are full blown computers.
Oh, I agree. I do this with a phone, clip, and Xbox controller already. I just think hearing it could have other uses outside of just the PS5 would be good for sales – but I’m thinking that won’t be a feature and it’ll require some ingenuity to make it work for other host devices.
Given that the Deck can run games like Last of Us and Spider-Man I wonder why at the price Sony is asking they aren’t just going into a fully portable PS5 handheld. Switch and Deck has shown handhelds are one area where people are way more forgiving of low resolution and performance. If Sony priced the device like $100 more and with how parts in pc handhelds now are better than what the deck came with they could put out something nice.