Genshin on PS5 Portal

I've just found the PS portal and I'm curious, as it's been around for awhile, if it's a worthwhile investment for playing Genshin? How does GI play on it?

I mostly play at home, and the steam deck and xbox Ally are fairly well out of my price range, so it seems like a good option. But I'm still hesitant to drop that much money on the portal instead of just buying a new regular controller (which is why i was on the sony site to begin with. Lol)

(I don't like to play on my phone because the screen is very smol and it's hard for my old eyes to see well. 😎)

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TrialByFyah2026-01-04 20:27

It's servicable. Frequently drops visual quality and framerate and sometimes even disconnects entirely requiring a restart if there's too much happening on screen.

MiniMages2026-01-05 01:54

I was told by people PS Portal is better than Remote Play. Found it strange but reading your comment tells me it's just Remote Play.

Ravemst2026-01-04 20:35

The game has been around for 6 years it's also on Xbox, PC, and Mobile. The game runs great on the ps5 and it also has features that the pc and mobile versions do not have graphically however the Xbox version also has them. Anyway the game is a good time waster and it has 6 years of content updates so you will always have something to do.

weedwench332026-01-05 04:05

Lolol. I have been playing this game since 1.2 across multiple pcs, and Playstations. I haven't gotten bored yet. 🧐
I want to be able to play my game while my children are watching the tv.

MofoPro2026-01-04 21:23

Just know you also need a PS5 and you can’t play on the device natively, it’s a streaming device so as long as your close by should be fine most of the time with the usual occasional artifacting

weedwench332026-01-05 04:03

Oh aye, i have the console proper, no worries. Hence looking for new controllers. Lol

Shulk_M02026-01-05 04:10

Fyi, if you have the premium tier of ps plus you can now stream many games directly from the cloud. Including the Hoyoverse games. No local PS5 required.

issm2026-01-04 22:19

The Portal's screen is only 8".

If a normal phone is too small for you, I'm not sure why this screen would be any better.

weedwench332026-01-05 04:01

Oh I like the smaller pixels which are less than 6 inches(so they actually fit in my damn pockets) lol

issm2026-01-05 04:11

Well, if you want a rough idea what the screen would look like, use this:

https://elvers.us/perception/visualAngle/

Enter the size of the screen, guestimate how far you'd hold it, and calculate the visual angle. Then, keeping that same calculated angle, enter the size of your TV, and it'll spit out how far away you'd need to stand away from your TV for the game to look roughly the same as if you were playing it on the Portal.

Characters and enemies on screen might look better, but since it'd be streaming the PS UI instead of playing with a native mobile UI, the UI elements will look even smaller than what a phone would normally show you.

PS Portal has no global way to increase UI size, which means you have to depend on the game's accessibility functions, and Genshin's, to be frank, are absolute dogshit (aka, you can't).

weedwench332026-01-05 05:31

Balls. That's kinda what i was worried about. Thanks for the info!

issm2026-01-05 04:33

Oh, and replying again, slightly unrelated, but if you're looking for new controllers because your old ones have started drifting, instead of wasting your money on another official controller that will suffer the same problem, consider modding your current controllers with hall effect sticks, or at least buy a replacement with the mod already installed.

If you can't do the mod yourself (it involves desoldering the old sticks and soldering in new ones), there might be an electronics repair shop nearby that will do it for a fee.

weedwench332026-01-05 05:30

Oo, helpful! Thank you! (i only have the one thus far and while it's only drifting a teeny bit atm, I'll remember that for later!) I needed a second one for 2 player games.

issm2026-01-05 09:36

You might as well just get a modded one.

Stick drift is a fundamental property of the technology Sony's official controllers use (even their $200 Dualsense Edge, which feels like it should be some kind of crime). It will always happen, it's just a question of when.

A modded controller will cost more up front, but you save money when you don't have to replace it.

Shulk_M02026-01-05 04:09

Um what? Aspect ratio says hello.

issm2026-01-05 04:21

What about it?

I've tested Genshin on a 12" tablet, and it's not that much better than my 6.6" phone. Everything's still tiny. And the controls were worse, because there are no scaling or customization options.

I doubt an 8" screen is going to help much regardless of aspect ratio.

Then again I do usually play on a 27" monitor.