Cloud gaming on the PlayStation Portal has gotten a lot better this week, as the handheld now lets you stream PS5 games from your library. These are games that you own on the PS5, and not games that Sony deems fit to be in the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog. There are lots of little nuances to this update and new feature, but the key takeaway is that you can stream your own games over the cloud.
Sony technically launched this feature as part of a beta update for beta participants earlier this year. I’ve had the capability on my own PlayStation Portal for a while, but admittedly never used it. That is, until today, with the new update that added the feature for all PlayStation Portal owners. Long story short, it works great. Games are much smoother than they are with Remote Play. The Remote Play aspect of the Portal can work well, too, but you need a pretty unshakeable internet connection, and it works best if your PS5 is hardwired. If it’s connected via Wi-Fi, the experience is of varied quality. Now, PlayStation Portal owners with this connection and latency problems can probably kiss those problems goodbye.
The PlayStation Portal PS5 cloud game support includes over 2,800 titles
While the idea of the Portal was always kind of a cool concept, requiring the Remote Play aspect has turned some people off. That should change with this update, now that the streaming happens entirely in the cloud without the need to be tethered to a PS5 console. To make things even better, there are over 2,800 supported titles that you can stream from your library. In total, there are 2,853 games.
That being said, Sony does say that games available to stream from your library will vary over time, by region, and country. So, the list of games for this feature might not be the same for everyone everywhere around the globe.
Progress carries over, so you can pick up where you left off
One really nice feature of the ability to stream your library of games is that it carries over your progress if you started playing a game on the PS5. I wasn’t sure if this would be the case, but after testing with Ghost of Yotei, it’s confirmed that if you start playing a game on the PS5, you’ll pick back up from your stopping point if you decide to stream that game over the cloud. This allows for seamless pick-up and play opportunities, and is surely going to be a delight for owners of the handheld. You do need to have the PlayStation Plus Premium subscription to access this feature. So, that could be a downside for some. If you already subscribe to that tier, however, and you own a Portal, you should check this feature out.
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