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Xenostar on 15 September 2011
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teigaga said:
Xenostar said:
teigaga said:
Mordred11 said:
Slimebeast said:
Why would I want to play a PS3 game on a tiny screen and lower image quality?

Maybe because you could do it anywhere?


Im pretty sure its confined to the house, its like the wii U. Your ps3 has to be on and your Vita has to be within resonable proximity of the system. It will great for when the Tv is unavailable, when you want to use headphones or for some games which dont really need a massive screen (pSN titles).

In terms of using the Vita as a control, i really think sony should push it. All 1st party titles going foward should have this feature. there are already a number of games which i think it will be extremely usefull for and at the top of the list is MAss Effect 3, skyrim and final fantasy XIII-2. I think maybe they should sell a cheap attachement which provides second trigger buttons because the touch panel isnt much of a substitute.


Well youd be wrong, even the PSP let me remote play PS1 games from work, so no reason at all the Vita wouldnt work over the internet as well, especially with its wireless N connection. 

I hope Nintendo change there minds and make Wii U work outside the house as well,  they dont want to be making regretable design deceisions like they have with the 3DS

Is there not a big difference? Ps1 games are not that big, less data to encode so its possible to stream it over a decent network with power of your ps3, I highly doubt the ps3 can handle streaming uncharted 2 across to the vIta at a large distance without some dramatic lag. but i'm not an expert, by all means i hope what your saying is true but im skeptical.

There is no differnce whatsoever, as its just sending an image and sound content processing is all done on the PS3, obviously ps3 games are higher resolution, but games marked to work for remoteplay downscale the image before they send it across the internet. Now previously developers had to mark there games as remoteplay ready, this is because the psp has limited controls compared to a dualshock pad and controls might need to be remapped in remote play, this wont be a problem for Vita, but there is also a slight processing overhead PS3 side to do remoteplay so games maxing out PS3 could see slow down. 

I very much doubt Sony will start letting old games work on remoteplay without the developers/publishers say so, but hopefully they will push for developers to make new games marked as compatible, now that bandwidth is less of an issue with better wireless on Vita and there is no problem for control mapping at all.