The basketball player Mikkal Bridges is 1.98m tall and plays for the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA. He owns a portable PlayStation 5 that travels with him in a suitcase to away games. Apparently, he is popular among his teammates thanks to the portable PS5. This way, one can easily play NFL Madden in any hotel room on the go. But why doesn’t he just take a Steam Deck instead?
Who is this?
- Bridges is 27 years old and plays shooting guard/small forward for the Brooklyn Nets. He has been a starter since 2020, first for Phoenix, and since February 2023 for Brooklyn.
- With an average of 26 points and a strong shooting percentage from the field and the free throw line, he is an important scorer for the Nets.
- However, his sports year ended early in 2023. Against the Philadelphia 76ers, it was already over in the first round of the playoffs.
Portable PS5 – just plug in a cable and go
This is his gaming pride: In a video on TikTok, Bridges shows his portable PS5:
The NBA player shows a suitcase containing the PlayStation 5, with a monitor on the inside of the lid and controllers included. The setup of the gaming system is said to be incredibly simple; one only needs to plug in a single cable into the wall, turn it on, and can start playing immediately.
“My boys and I play a lot of Madden. Having that thing with me on the go is something I really need. My teammates – everyone in the league loves playing that game. It makes traveling easier for us.”
How expensive is the portable PS5? According to information from the site TheVerge , the construction is said to cost over $1,000.
“Why not just use a Steam Deck?”
What is the discussion? Two things are being discussed.
Some say: “Just get a Steam Deck”; but that probably wouldn’t be a good option to play NFL Madden, a football simulation from EA released annually since 1988. Madden is generally considered a console game, especially when you want to play with multiple people on one device.
The other point is the irony that US basketball players are apparently crazy about a football game and do not play “NBA 2k Live,” where they could play themselves, but Madden is simply an institution in the USA, with which many have grown up.
Some football players in Europe play FIFA or EA Sports FC. Here, EA even has the joke of giving professional football players a particularly strong card of themselves: FIFA: 30 million coins – Haaland’s FUT team is as awesome as he is
