Now that more people are beginning to get their hands on Sony’s next-generation game console, the Playstation 5, I can feel a little less guilty about having received one early on. Between cloud gaming with Stadia, GeForce Now, Xbox Game Pass, and so on, Steam Link Beta for remote gaming, and even as we wait for official Steam support on Chrome OS, there are plenty of options for gaming on Chromebooks, but one thing that’s always been missing is access to Sony’s exclusive titles on the go.
You’d think you just have to fire up Sony’s official Remote Play app from the Google Play Store to fill this gap, but it’s just atrocious. It connects briefly, lags a bunch and shows massive amounts of artifacting, and then drops the connection almost immediately. The last time I tried to connect my PS4’s Dualshock 4 controller to my Chromebook, it went haywire too, adding to my…
