Sony have confirmed what we suspected all along, that you can use the PS Vita as a PlayStation 3 controller, effectively offering up similar gameplay possibilities as Nintendo’s Wii U is touting.
“What could you do with all of this?” asked SCEE’s Phil Rogers at the Develop Conference. “Here’s a few boring technical ideas: you could drive a display from a PS3 game, for example. PS3 can send data down to Vita and Vita can display it. You could use the unique features [of Vita] – gyroscope, touch front and back – as a control device for a PS3 game.”
“You can run software on both devices and use the network to sync the game states. And that’s pretty good, because you then have the processing power of PS3 doing that work, Vita [doing] fancy graphics – however you want to do it. You’re not sacrificing the PS3’s CPU to be able to have a rich experience on Vita.”
It seems that Sony will be happy enough for developers to do this, too, which could bring about some interesting ideas. Touch screen control for PS3 games, for example.
You can read our hands on impressions of PS Vita here.
MrJimmy
Glad I’ll still be able to use a dualshock though.
Smallville2106
I bet the Wii U won’t cost the price of a PS3 and a Vita combined though. I can’t help thinking that this is all talk from Sony trying to taint the Wii U. I think it will be a novelty at first then it will just fade out and it won’t be implemented anymore.
Not everyone is going to have a PS3 and a Vta so they will have to implement both. Surely this is just more work and cost. Which accordinging to devs, the cost of developing a game is already extremely high, hence overpriced DLC, online passes etc.
Awayze
The Wii U has a nasty cheap controller.
Obviously the PS Vita isn’t cheap but for the hardware you get in it, it’s worth it.
Smallville2106
Dread to think how they will try to get even more money from us.
hazelam
so it can do everything the wii-u can now? except play wii and wii-u games obviously.
and it won’t have a cheap resistive touch screen like the wii-u.
can resistive touchscreens do multitouch?
hazelam
also another feature that would be handy is if you could output the vita display to the tv through the ps3, maybe even using a ds3 for controlling it, it wouldn’t work too well for games that use the touchscreen obviously but for psp games it would be great.
manky_
Pretty sure that you could do this with Resistance Retribution running through Resistance 2 on the PS3
Crocadillian
Resistive can’t do multi-touch, it scratches easily and is inaccurate without the use of a stylus. The Wii U’s product design is cheap, in order to try and be cost effective.
david24
its possible o make resistive multi touch screens but they cost thousands and are no where near as good as a multi touch capacitive screen. as well as only being able to produce very dull colors
dude90
You kind of expected them to have Remote Play when they first announced Vita, but adding that extra part of using Vita as well just seems to take Remote Play to the next level.
dude90
*using Vita as a controller with Remote Play can take it to the next level.
a inferior race
TBH I don’t really expect this to happen in anything more than a minority of cases. Otherwise Sony will have a third control system to go with the DS3 and its Sixaxis and the Move.
Also, as others have stated we were told by Sony that the PSP would have integration with the PS2 and PS3, but that broadly speaking hasn’t happened.
Reality Check
Me & U Wii :D
RadicalMave07
“it only does everything”:)
i cannot wait for the vita to come,i still think the name is a little cheesy but it is going to be one epic handheld console.
TheChaosGamer
Let’s hope this doesn’t end up in games being made that require you to own the vita, although that does seem very unlikely.
david24
they originally planned to make the psp a rear view mirror in gt5 so I’d expect there likely to add that in to they vita or gt6