So, those with the Portal, honest opinions, please? I will likely pick one up in the new year when it is back in stock, all the games I never seem to get around to playing single player I'd use it for it whilst in the lounge with the kids (My PS5 is in my office). Any regrets?
I had one - used it for just under 2 weeks and then decided to return it.
Initially I was really happy with it, it worked well at home when I wanted to play games on the sofa whilst my wife watched TV and my daughter was asleep upstairs. Connectivity was fine once you get things sorted (really important to do a device reset the first time you use it) and making sure the PS5 was hard wired and the Portal was using 5ghz wifi.
There's definitely input lag and it's noticeable to some degree - but depending on the game you can sort of get used to it. I used it to play/finish God of War Ragnarok which I'd never got round to and it was good for that. I also played a decent amount of Diablo 4 using it and again, no major issues using it for that outside of occasional visual banding caused by the bitrate/streaming.
I work away a few days each month and I took it away a few days after getting it and it worked fine in the first hotel - but the following hotel it didn't work at all. I couldn't connect to the hotel's wifi as it had the whole webpage / create an account set up requirement and the Portal doesn't have a web browser so you can't actually ever connect to these sort of wifi networks. Pretty annoying, used my hotspot on my phone for a but that was quite wobbly.
I ended up returning it because I just felt like it didn't do anything really particularly great. I was hoping that Sony would have implemented some sort of improvements to the Remote Play connection for the Portal so it would feel almost like playing natively on your console - but it 100% has input latency that you can feel, it just depends on how partial to that you are.
It was definitely nice to sit on the sofa and play games whilst my wife watched TV and using the actual Dualsense controller was good - but again, it's something I could do already with the Remote Play app on my iPad with a PS5 controller connected via Bluetooth.
That's why I say it's good - but it also doesn't do anything great. It felt hard to justify it when I could get 95% of the experience just from using the Remote Play app on my iPad.