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?
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.
