I just purchased one on Amazon. I’ve been holding out for the 2nd gen version since they now work with my case.

Mine dont Connect to my phone anymore, and its just 6 months Old. I dont know how to fix it

Annual fee to access free features ...

@jes6628

2 ай бұрын

40 dollars a year.. 🤢

@AfyKirbyOfficial

Ай бұрын

​@jes6628 it's not really a bad price for stuff that can be useful for your use case. It's probably the highest quality phone controller, one of that offers stuff that would be similar to PSN and Xbox Live. You pay for the subscriptions if that's your thing. Or just don't use it at all. They need to be able to afford their servers and bandwidth usage for that stuff. People often don't appreciate the effort put into those services. Most PC related services are free like Steam, Epic, Blizzard, Rockstar, but they also have other ways of covering the cost of that to support their games in parallel. Steam makes boat loads of money off their store. It's literally a meme to spend money on steam. Epic notably has the Fortnite cash cow. Blizzard has their whole first party games system like the Diablo series, and World of Warcraft notably. Rockstar with red dead redemption, and GTA. All of those main stream games and services are just the tip of the iceberg. PlayStation and Xbox are known to basically take some loses on their consoles and make up for it in the long term with their online services and store sales. They also have to fund RND for new consoles, their social stuff, their servers. There's always a balance. If it offers a service, it's always going to come at a price. You're basically paying for ease of playing with friends and using remote streaming at the cost of 2 months of Netflix.

Nice one, literally just bought one for Steam Link and PS Remote play 🙏

@jamesleeshin

3 ай бұрын

You’re going to love it!

I see on the Backbone app that you can play Steam games as well. Do you need the subscription to use that feature or is it free?

@StuNneR9886

Ай бұрын

Yes all streaming apps ps Xbox and steam

Do you need to buy subscription to play Xbox games and ps game

Amazing video!

@jamesleeshin

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

oh nice product, and good review man. I was looking for a gift for my lil brother who already uses PS5 remote but is always complaining about controlling with the touch screen. Thanks man! (I might actually end up buying another one for myself haha)

@jamesleeshin

3 ай бұрын

It’s honestly a great purchase if you game a lot on your phone!

Stupid question, but the games you want to play still need to be downloaded off the app store, right? It's not like a bunch of games preloaded on the controller?

@oscarlopez8193

Ай бұрын

Neither actually. It’s remotely mirrored off your console.

I have asked this question to many users but no one has answered me, would it be possible to access with the Backbone to your PlayStation account to be able to buy and play games in the cloud? I say this for those who do not have a console, especially me.

@jamesleeshin

2 ай бұрын

You won’t be able to play games in the cloud without a console. Remote play basically mirrors your console output

@anthonyali968

Ай бұрын

I was about to buy this but when I saw it requires subs then I’m out

Good review dude

@jamesleeshin

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

Thank you for your honesty 🙏 i appreciate you pointing out the fine print that $40 bucks a month lol no way they can forget about that. $100 bucks for said device plus $40 a month 😳 no way.

@damaged_ambitions9906

7 күн бұрын

It’s $40 for the whole year. You don’t need to subscribe to use it either. It’s just to use there app which essentially is just a hub where it organizes all your games from different platforms in one app. You don’t need it to use the backbone.

I don’t have a back bone I ended up going with the portal because I’m using the iPhone 13 mini haha. But from what I heard this works great. I’m definitely gonna buy one for my nephew he has a big phone that’ll benefit from this. Have you seen the razer one for the newer iPad mini’s. That’s tempting to buy for my iPad mini. Good video. New subscriber now

@jamesleeshin

3 ай бұрын

I just looked it up, is it the Razer Kishi? That actually looks really tempting since I also have the iPad Mini! Appreciate you subscribing

@rafsoto24

3 ай бұрын

@@jamesleeshin yea that’s it! Thing looks good! iPad looks good when it’s attached too. Can’t wait to see if you get it haha

didn’t even cover the delta emulator app in the app store now, this will make that whole experience so much nicer

@jamesleeshin

3 ай бұрын

Yes great point! I need more time to play around with it but might post a short about it soon!

@aicontentviral

3 ай бұрын

@@jamesleeshin can’t wait to see it, been wanting to buy one so bad but can’t justify the price 😮

Can you play it if you’re not home, like if I’m at work and I wanna play on my break would the back bone allow me to do that?

@oscarpantojasosa4914

10 күн бұрын

Yes you can as long as you are on WiFi and your PS5 at home is on rest mode

@phandhamania

10 күн бұрын

@@oscarpantojasosa4914 most of my games are disk, will they still play?

Can you use mods on games through the Backbone 1?

@juangarcia2632

Ай бұрын

Yes 😂😂it’s crazy

Nice James!!!

@jamesleeshin

3 ай бұрын

Thank you Jo!

Can I use this even with my ps4?

@StuNneR9886

Ай бұрын

Yes

Do you need an actual ps5 for this or can you just buy the backbone ?

@RobnDob

24 күн бұрын

you can just play

@jamesleeshin

13 күн бұрын

Yup, you can just play without having a PS5!

Does it support any iOS game?

@Cheeseburger330

26 күн бұрын

@Cre8Peaceah, thanks. But I already returned it to the story. It’s not for me.

Second gen works with fold 5!

I hated the backbone for awhile. I exclusively used for remote play and cod mobile. Over time just a hassle to bring with me and eventually deleted games off. Battery was draining faster from gaming. I couldnt use its for genshin impact. So its only purpose for cod and emulators. Biggest downside when you make your phone a gaming phone and daily phone bring a back up a charger. I got this controller because its playstation compliant for remote play. Eventually got a backbone for my iphone se 2nd gen. Strictly gaming phone. And take back about everything i said. Im currently obessed with quick and easy mobile handheld gaming for emulators. I do say backbone for iphone comes in clutch. For gaming on the go. Convience and time. I had a gamesir x2. Enjoyed it but apps started to reject the controller. Backbone was a standard for a lot of apps for awhile. So keep in mind will be compatible with alot of apps unlike the gamesir or razer.

Wish I could play offline this is a worse portal

Do you have to own a PS5 in order to play the PS Backbone version?

@jamesleeshin

2 ай бұрын

Nope! PS Backbone version is more for the look, the functionality is the same as the regular one. Obviously you still need a PS5 to use remote play!

Backbone PS edition is pretty nice literally is like PS portal😂

The fact is most games are close to 70$ anyway 60 more dollars… plus if you want to pay 40$ a year sub it doesn't seem that unreasonable

Just got my portal today and it runs like a dedicated handled. I have the back bone, it’s not in the league of the portal for PlayStation games. I started to hate using the backbone. Having to tune my phone in airplane mode was a bummer so I would get notifications as I played. The portal is badass

@jamesleeshin

2 ай бұрын

Yeah definitely not on the level of a dedicated device like the portal if you want to play PS5 games! I will say backbone is more portable and you can use it to play mobile games too

@ronthorn3

Ай бұрын

I mean you can’t use the portal on the plane

@RoyalBoyle78

Ай бұрын

@@ronthorn3 If the plane has wifi why can't you.

@user-zr1pv8yv1c

Ай бұрын

Do you need too have the console t9o play it

No! Bsp controllers prove it!

Everybody keeps tlkn about annual fee…it’s only like 40$ step yo bread game up

@drodi7320

Ай бұрын

Lol

@MobileDecay

11 күн бұрын

You go ahead and sub to a controller. I'll just laugh at you and eat popcorn. 😏