Sony’s R&D manager has confirmed what we have been expecting all this time for PS Vita, a controller functionality on it’s big brother, the PlayStation 3. That makes a Wii U sounds ridiculous, if you ask me!
“What could you do with all of this?” asked Sony’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.”
The move from Sony to implement such feature may sparks creativity among the developers where we might see for ourselves some exciting ideas. For example, a touch screen control for selected PS3 games.
PS Vita retails at $249 for a basic WiFi version and $299 for an addition of 3G connectivity. The device comes with superior hardware specs most notably running with ARM® Cortex™- A9 core (4 core).
SteveDOF
Aug 03. 2011
But pairing handhelds with consoles has been tried several times before and each time it has failed. Devs do not like risking time and money on titles that need optional hardware to play. Why should this time be any different?
With the Wii U, developers can rely on the fact that every owner will have the second screen controller, they cannot rely on that with the PS3.
We might see some games for the PS3 and Vita combo, but there will be very many more that use the Wii U and its second screen controller. the idea that Sony’s combo is a serious rival to the Wii U’s USP is wishful thinking. They have to compete on other terms.
DayOneBuyer
Aug 03. 2011
that’s wierd it can’t be like the wii U because psp(2000 and 3000) can already be a controller for the ps3.
FFF
Aug 03. 2011
nope, the ps vita does the same exact thing that wii u can do. on the other hand, with the psp you can barely control the ps3 (only few games support using the psp as a controller and/or watch the image from the ps3 on the psp screen)
Captain N
Sep 21. 2011
Hmm so to get the Wii U experience you have to buy a $300 PS3 and a $300 Vita…. yea that makes tons of sense LOL. Only idiots would do such a thing, when you could get a more powerful system with Wii U than buying both PS3 and Vita !!!
youbuye
Sep 24. 2011
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