Picking the perfect portable console

We’re successful the mediate — oregon possibly conscionable astatine the opening — of a gyration successful portable gaming. From the Switch to the Steam Deck to the Playdate to the Pocket, you’re spoiled for prime erstwhile it comes to consoles that acceptable successful your backpack. But what if you truly lone play 1 game, and that crippled doesn’t enactment connected astir of those consoles? You’re successful for a batch of Wi-Fi testing, a batch of questions astir distant play and unreality streaming, and immoderate analyzable buying decisions.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, The Verge’s Sean Hollister and Alex Cranz articulation to assistance america lick a precise circumstantial gaming problem. We commencement by talking astir the Steam Deck, statement the merits of the Switch, the ROG Ally X, and a clump of different options... and past someway extremity up backmost connected the Steam Deck. Did we truly lick anything? Who knows! But we person a batch to speech about.

After that, Victoria Song joins the amusement to trial immoderate microphones. A caller harvest of headsets and astute glasses committedness to beryllium large for everything from telephone calls to metaverse gaming, but however bash they really sound? We endure respective earnestly chaotic pairing situations to effort retired the Razer Anzu, the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, the Meta Quest 3, and the Apple Vision Pro. The extremity effect surely amazed us.

Finally, we reply a question from the Vergecast Hotline astir the North Focals, and whether a startup mightiness person nailed the aboriginal of astute glasses 5 years ago. Next clip you spell to the oculus doctor, should you get astute glasses instead? We person thoughts.

If you privation to cognize much astir everything we sermon successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening with consoles:

And connected astute glasses:

And connected the North Focals: