Remember this story back in September? We reported then that rumours were circling regarding Vita’s ability to Remote Play any PlayStation 3 title.
In fact, there was a video (linked above) of Killzone 3 running on the handheld.
Remote Play is Sony’s wrapper for streaming video and audio one way and controller input the other, meaning that as long as the PS3 is running and online the portable, once synced, would be able to ‘play’ any game inserted.
It currently works like this now on the PSP, although support is very limited and on a game by game basis.
However, assuming our earlier story holds true, a post on Eurogamer suggests that Vita’s Remote Play will be limited to the PSP’s 480 x 272 resolution, and scaled upwards.
There’s no source to Eurogamer’s story, sadly, so it’s tricky to be totally sure, but this seems like something of a disappointment to us.
Apparently a firmware update for the PS3 will be required.
Tomhlord
What a disappointment, this rumour doesn’t match up to a previous rumour……
tonyyeb
I hate rumours like this. They only build my hopes up. My main reason for a Vita is this feature. I don’t care about the up scaling, I’m sure it will be fine for me. That KZ3 remote play vid looked pretty sweet to me.
TSBonyman
I just hope the remote play works better with Vita than it did on PSP. I could do PSP remote play anywhere around my house via my home wireless internet but anytime i tried to do it at another location via the internet it timed out on me.
I’m not terribly excited by the touch based games being developed specifically for Vita, i’m more interested in playing core games on a handheld with proper controls so the remote play function will be important for me. Hopefully it’s as others have said and future games will use the full Vita screen resolution.
gaffers101
Remote play is a great feature that I for one would make full use of.