Jacob R set out to reveal all the secrets of PlayStation Portal on his YouTube channel. To do this, the YouTuber completely disassembled the device, thus highlighting its inner workings and components, as well as what to expect in terms of repairability.
In the video, the YouTuber shows that no screws are visible from the outside. remove triggers and black plastic strips before accessing internal components of your device. While replacing analog sticks is a relatively simple task, other repairs are difficult. Especially, Replacing the 16.6 Wh battery requires removing the glued screen, making the repair process much more complicated.
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PlayStation Portal is less powerful than expected
Disassembly reveals PlayStation Portal’s internal space is largely occupied by the battery, even if this doesn’t allow you to have as long an autonomy as the latest Switch OLED or other portable consoles.
The video also lets us know which processor uses this accessory: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 662. This is a mid-range chip from 2019 that is used in the lowest-performing smartphones on the market today. Snapdragon 662 has four ARM Cortex-A73 cores clocked up to 2.0 GHz, four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.8 GHz, and an Adreno 610 graphics chip.
Because of this PlayStation Portal should stick with Remote PlayEven though, as we noted during our testing, this makes it a pretty useless accessory. It’s a shame that Sony opted for such an old chip, which greatly limits the functionality of the device.
For example, built-in modem is only compatible with the Wi-Fi 5 standardwhile high-end smartphones are all moving to Wi-Fi 7. For a device focused entirely on streaming, it’s odd that Sony hasn’t opted for at least a Wi-Fi 6 compatible chip; Latency is reduced as well as Remote Play stability.
