Osc89 on 24 March 2013
| Mr Khan said: I really think people are overestimating how much the gamepad is a liability. What they need to do is try what Sony's trying with the Vita: push the ever-loving hell out of the fact that you can play the console's games offscreen with the thing. I can imagine that in smaller homes that don't have multiple televisions (or at least multiple good televisions) folks are always fighting over time with the main TV. Have a commercial where someone wants to play Zelda, but their kid is screaming that they want to watch Dora the Explorer (or what have you), but instead of having to forego their game, they get just what they want. The pad is not especially compelling, this is without dispute, but it does have benefits that some families could make great use of. |
I don't know why Off-TV Play isn't compulsory, at least for any game that can support the Pro Controller. Like you said, it is an appealing feature and is easy to convey the benefit in advertising. But they already got in trouble for advertising it in the UK because it isn't used in the majority of games. They should have learnt from the PS3 Remote Play, which was seriously underused. Sony have, what with it being required for every PS4 game.
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