| Poppert said: Ok, mr bbc reporter the difference between wii u and ps3/vita combo is that 100% of wii u owners will have touchscreen, but only 10% of ps3 users will have vita. Hence a touch screen will be at the core of wii u gameplay but only an addon for some ppl for ps3. |
Plus there are no proven asymetric gameplay options yet for PS3 + PS-Vita. So we don't even know that it is or isn't possible. I mean PS3 was waiting for Party Chat for long time before Sony said, we tried but isn't going to happen... because it just wasn't designed to allow that with the way the resources are reserved/allocated.
Cross-play is just multiplayer betwen different platforms (like Portal 2 between PS3 & Steam)... it is not the same technical implementation as asymetric gameplay which is happening more within the split-screen multiplayer norms. You need multiple copies of the game for online, while split-screen runs on one copy of the game. How many games support online but don't support split-screen? Split-screen requires more resources and different programming... instead of focus on optimizing net-code, the focus is on memory/processor resource management.
