kcoward said:
Aprisaiden said:
kcoward said:
spiffiness said:
Tizona said:
I don't understand why people think it will be so easy for the Vita/PS3 combo to be linked. I didn't see anything in the Sony conference that really made me think they could be linked in a way similar to the Wii U. I understood the Ruin demo, and talking about being able to play the game on both platforms and such, but nothing was said about being able to use the Vita as a controller or extra screen for PS3 games. Did I miss something? (not being sarcastic, really did I miss something?) I'm not saying it's not possible, but some seem to have jumped to the conclusion that it is inevitable. |
Probably because the PS3 and PSP can already be linked in some way through Remote Play, where games and movies on the PS3 can be streamed to the PSP. It's not that much of a stretch for PSVita to have a little bit more functionality than that.
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Thats through cloud saving not infa red streaming. Sony would need a whole new system and technology to do what WiiU is doing. Im not saying its impossible for Sony to do im just saying its impossible on the PS3. Remember its the WiiU console that does all the work for the display on the controller. The controller itself has no processor so all the work is done by some kinda technology in the console.
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Just a heads up, i doubt the WiiU controller uses infrared, infrared is a line of sight technology and it would limit the controllers use to the same degree as the current WiiMote/Sensor bar setup.
As far the PS3 being able to do the same thing with NGP -- your right that it would be harder for SONY to do, but it is still possible -- all it would do is basically require games to support split screen, with one screen for the tv and one for NGP. Ofcourse WiiU will likely perform better, but that is to be expected by a system built around this tech.
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Infared is waves and it can and was used on the Wii to transfer content from the console to the controller. Mii's and sound could have been transfered to the Wii mote via infared and i know infared is able to stream content depending on how much power you put towards it and how much ports to send/recieve data. I dont understand what you mean by line of sight technology but if you mean it has to be directly in front the sensor bar to transfer data then that statement is far from true.
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By line-of-sight i mean the Infared emitter needs to be able to see the detector to send or recieve data, also the waves cannot go through walls. I also assumed that it would use directional Infrared opposed to diffusional infrared simply because while directional infrared works up to about ~50 feet, diffutional will only give you ~35 feet or so (kind of depends on how high your roof is, what kind of material its made out of/contains etc. since diffusional infrared uses an object like a ceiling to reflect the infrared to get around the need to be in line-of-sight at the cost of speed, signal strength and range) So i would say that WiiU will use some sort of WiFi technology, it'll prob be a 2.4Ghz band tech like 802.11b/g/n or bluetooth/a zigbee WPAN. Though i pray that we will get something cool like 802.15.3.
Anyway the main point of my post is that PS3 and NGP are perfectly capable of mimicing the WiiU technology wise, though due to a lack of third party interest and the desire to push the PS3's hardware for all users we probably won't see many games take advantage of it out side of a few ports of some features (eg. the ability to NGP's screen as a touch pad for touch controls, or to move content between PS3 and NGP's screens via WiFi.)
