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TreeTurtle on 03 September 2014

RIP Vita



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elazz on 03 September 2014

I just figured out something! With an mhl to Hdmi you can connect your phone to any television at home and play ps4. This is actually perfect. I hope the phone releases soon



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Fusioncode on 03 September 2014

Poor little Vita. Gets no love from its parents.



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Normchacho on 03 September 2014

Won't matter here in the U.S. The Z3 is T-mobile only so it's pretty much DOA.

 

Edit: maybe not. There is a pretty strong rumor that it will also come to big daddy Verizon. If true, that remote play feature alone may make it my next phone.



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Aura7541 on 03 September 2014
gooch_destroyer said:
There goes the Vita's only selling point...

The Xperia Remote Play is limited to only home networks, so partially??



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gooch_destroyer on 03 September 2014
Aura7541 said:
gooch_destroyer said:
There goes the Vita's only selling point...

The Xperia Remote Play is limited to only home networks, so partially??


Well...Yeah.



NewGuy on 03 September 2014
MikeRox said:
NewGuy said:

For the people saying "Poor Vita" or whatever, this is a longtime coming and just the beginning IMO.

1) PSM is vita only now. Android phones were holding back PSM to basically bad ports or simple games. PSM Unity and Dev kit are either free or extremely cheap. This will allow quick and easy ports of iOS and android games.


Had to cut down the post because it was so big.

First bolded, (as a huge Vita fan) I agree entirely, this is coming, it's going to completely change everything in the long term, this is just the start of a seismic shift in our technology (also shifting from big dedicated "desktops" "set top boxes") though there is still a market for Vita as it is showing in Japan (physical controls go a long way as far as gamers are concerned, this is also the reason 3DS can stay relevant at this stage).

I actually wouldn't be surprised if Sony have another go at an Xperia play in the future once mobile markets become more stable as far as technology goes, the Xperia player was for me, a perfect idea, that hit the market at the wrong time, and was under utilised by Sony (I think it was the Ericsson part of Sony that did it though, hence SCEI not being keen to allow too much on it under the "PlayStation" label. I think an Xperia PlayStation may well be Sony's next handheld both in phone handset and tablet form with physical controls onboard being the differentiating factor.

As for the second part, actually it's on regular phones. My HTC One (m7 so last gen) has PS Mobile on it :) but yes, it was definitely Sony's way of trying to bridge mobile phone games with dedicated handheld gaming. It actually works well there's been some solid PSM releases. Sadly because they're phone games, mainstream gaming media completely ignores these.

Unity is definitely a solid breakthrough for Sony. There's clearly a dedicated userbase on Vita who want games, iOS/Android have been getting some high profile games, however the lack of on board physical controls completely puts me off. If Sony can get these onto Vita without too much commitment from the developers, it's  an outright win win.

Sony started with PSM on android and were gonna expand to iOS and WP eventually IIRC. However, earlier last month, they dropped support for it.

 

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2014/08/06/sony-drops-android-support-for-playstation-mobile/

 

It's now only for PSV and PSTV. Good move IMO. If my theory is correct, then it'll come back to android as an app for Vita and PS games. 



VanceIX on 03 September 2014
Kyuu said:
VanceIX said:
Best feature of Vita was Vita games -_-

That being said, great feature. Kinda wish that the phone was QHD like all the other flagships right now, but ah well.


QHD on such small screens is useless. I'd much rather the phone resources being used to optimize performane.

The phone is as optomized as it can get through pure power. Other phones are using similar internals and getting amazing battery life while having a QHD screen.

I personally think that the screen could easily go to 5.5" and offer QHD, that way you could actually notice the sharpness while gaming on a larger screen. That being said, it would require the phone to upscale PS4 games internally, which would be far to problemetic in terms of power usage, which is why they probably kept the lower res screen.



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centertainment on 03 September 2014

Exciting to see the future of game streaming... Playstation in any device in your house. You just need a controller. Especially if you'll be able to buy 1 game, and play it on any device in your home. Reminds me what Apple is doing with iOS8... as long as you have an iPhone, you can text/call on your iPad/MacBook/MacMini etc



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Munkeh111 on 05 September 2014
Aura7541 said:
gooch_destroyer said:
There goes the Vita's only selling point...

The Xperia Remote Play is limited to only home networks, so partially??

I know I'm slightly late on it, but it's not. People just haven't been listening to Sony (I may be wrong on this, but I'm pretty sure)

As with the Vita, the experience may be far from great outside your house, so they're basically saying it won't work very well, not that it won't work. Personally, the Vita doesn't seem to work that great in my house anyway...