WhiskeyKnight
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If you have a PS4 and a Vita, why would you not try Remote Play?
Remote Play is the first thing that has felt truly "next gen" to me. It's fucking fantastic.
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Around 60% of PS4 owners also have a PS Vita
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If you have a PS4 and a Vita, why would you not try Remote Play?
Remote Play is the first thing that has felt truly "next gen" to me. It's fucking fantastic.
startyourengine
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i tried remote play once with a couple of games, the screen on vita is just too small after having played games on a 50 inches tv. and plus u can't really rival the ds4 with vita's control. to me a gimmick not worth look into too much.
ThatStupidLion
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resogun remote play has been pretty incredible while my fiance watches her real house wives show....
anyone with or without a ps4 should get a vita.
sadly the airlines lost my luggage which contained my vita... honestly feels like a piece of me is missing...will buy a new vita when airline refund comes in, and import a 64 card. thank god i was all digital.
anyone with or without a ps4 should get a vita.
sadly the airlines lost my luggage which contained my vita... honestly feels like a piece of me is missing...will buy a new vita when airline refund comes in, and import a 64 card. thank god i was all digital.
Just got a PS4 a couple days ago and I tried Remote Play and it refused to work properly. I was sitting right next to my PS4 and the lag I got was considerable and even worse when I turned away from it, thus it was basically impossible to play KZ: SF with it, and then it would repeatedly lose the connection. Again, this is while I'm literally 2 ft away from the PS4.
I don't know why it was acting up but so far my experience with Remote Play have not been positive.
I don't know why it was acting up but so far my experience with Remote Play have not been positive.
Yes, it is worldwide down.
I'd be worried if I was Sony. Knowing that 60% of your users are the ones that also own a Vita. Which let's face it, most people that own the Vita are those that love the playstation ecosystem. Just goes to show that most systems sold so far have been to the biggest playstation fans.
Source? NPD says otherwise. Stop talking out of your ass.
WhiskeyKnight said:
Because playing on a 55+ inch TV with 7.1 Surround >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Playing on the Vita.
MaximusPrimus
Member
I agree 100%! Playing AC4 at my gf's apartment while my PS4 is at home is "next-gen" indeed. and nearly perfectly playable.
http://m.uk.ign.com/articles/2014/01/31/ps-vita-sales-increase-by-163-in-uk-following-launch-of-ps4
There you go. 163% rise in the UK since the PS4 launch. Remote play cited as predominant motivator.
Yes, I know it doesn't mean much. Dude wasn't talking out of his ass though. You should calm down a touch.
During christmas. And 163% rise compared to?
The numbers could stay the same or even go up once ppl know about the cross buy thing with PS3/PS4 and Vita. Cross buy games were free on the Vita if you bought the PS3 version. I think you had to use the cross buy section in the PSN store tho.
Wasn't that just the week after the PS4 was out? And wasn't that more because we were entering the Holidays more than the fact that the PS4 released? Pretty much every system gets an increase first week of December. NPD December was pretty much a catastrophe for the Vita, and that was hard numbers. I trust hard numbers more than a percentage number from a company that is spun beyond and back (and this goes to Nintendo and Microsoft as well).
Kazuma Kiryu
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I bet Sony wanted that number to stay that way, but it won't in the future.
Aquamarine
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Measuring absolute success with percentages is useless without a base number. If Vita was selling 5,000 a month before, then a rise to 13,000 a month isn't particularly significant, especially if that figure regresses over time.
No...it's still dead everywhere but Japan. This is just another misleading figure from Sony PR.
I bet that we'll see in January NPD how the PS4's presence won't have any significant factor on Vita sales in the USA.
I'm surprised given the low memory card sellthrough figures we got from NPD. Where are people putting all these purchases?
Yea, I bet they are super duper worried.
That's fine, I don't put any stock into obfuscated numbers either. I just felt you'd come down too hard on the other dude when there are PR pieces out there that may well have shaped his perceptions.
I'd like to know as well.
Reminds me of the ridiculous 800% increase in Wii U sales that someone tried to attribute to the xbox one reveal... when the truth is that it was because of a price cut and even still the actual amount of sales was abysmally low.
UnluckyKate
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I'm one of them too ! Love the vita. Great on its own. Amazing with PS4. Sony created a really good environement with these two on the PS+ bridge in between
Was going to say the same thing. Mainstream buyers seem to be on the fence still or skipping next gen consoles for mobile and ipad.
1st Course
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nvm the article is full of assumptions and ifs.
Most of the people jumping on PS4 this early are already PS3 PS+ users and have already been enjoying the benefits of that service for months. For most of us, eventually the draw of "how do I hold all these free games" translated to "why not pick up the other members of the Playstation family to have more games" so they ended up getting a Vita and eventually a PS4.
It simply makes sense when one service that's less than $5 per month gives you games across 3 (4 if you count the PSP games on PS+) platforms.
It simply makes sense when one service that's less than $5 per month gives you games across 3 (4 if you count the PSP games on PS+) platforms.
I'm not sure about most places, but PS4 has been sold out since it launched nearly everywhere in the US, and it sounds like much of pal land too.
That seems like a random conclusion to come to after 3 months on sale when one of them is selling through, no?
davepoobond
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sörine;100398356 said:
Delete and re download?
Portugeezer
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PS4 remote play was one of the reasons I got a Vita.
That's what I do.
Portugeezer
Member
This. The games are a few gigabytes at the most. It sucks having a small memory card; I have a shitty 4GB, didn't think I would digitally download as much as I ended up doing, but deleting and re-downloading wouldn't take long.
I'm sure it is. I'm also sure this percentage will drop very quickly.
I would say it was those holiday sales that caused the spike and not the PS4.
I would say it was those holiday sales that caused the spike and not the PS4.
enanogrande
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Hope to join this group sometime this year. Between Remote Play and PS+ games, it just seems like a no brainer. (hoping for $150 SKU or P4G bundle, plz based Sony!)
I already Tweeted this to Yosp twice about a DS4/Vita hybrid for Remote Play but he didn't reply.
Its fanboywritten.
tokyostomp
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What is the percentage of Vita owners that also own a PS4?!
I have a PS3....and I heard its supposed to be better with the PS4. In my case I had to sometimes reboot the Vita for it to work proper.
And who says you have to use Remote Play 100% of the time? As some have mentioned its great for not tying up a TV in the house or you just wanna game elsewhere.
Remote Play in the bathroom or just in bed is great. Since remote play is 100% compatible with the PS4....there is no need to find specific games to use it with. Its kinda gimped for the PS3.
I'm pretty sure Sony didnt intend for Remote Play to replace gaming in front of a TV.
We don't know. We also don't know how many PS4 owners own a Vita. The article is a fanboy doing assumptions.
Earthanoid
Member
I'm surprised that so few people have tried out remote play. It's pretty awesome, although it is not well suited for all games. Resogun and KZ are playable but not as good, but games like Don't Starve that aren't that sensitive to perfect accuracy are great. As we get more RPGs and slower-paced games it's going to be really great.
The back touch pad is my only complaint about the Vita. It's not comfortable to hold it on the little oval pads. They need to let us select the active zones, like letting so that you have to touch near the middle to activate it. Or let us change the input, like letting a swipe be registered as a button press. That way you can hold it more comfortably but still take advantage of the touch pad.
Still, I'm glad that the PS4 seems to be helping the Vita a bit. It's an awesome little system.
The back touch pad is my only complaint about the Vita. It's not comfortable to hold it on the little oval pads. They need to let us select the active zones, like letting so that you have to touch near the middle to activate it. Or let us change the input, like letting a swipe be registered as a button press. That way you can hold it more comfortably but still take advantage of the touch pad.
Still, I'm glad that the PS4 seems to be helping the Vita a bit. It's an awesome little system.
3rdamention
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I am part of the statistics too. I love remote play with my PS4 and Vita. Remote Play and Twitch/Ustream streaming are two of my favorite next gen features.
sechsterangriff
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You know that you can back-up your games to a PS3 or PC, right?sörine;100398356 said:
Well, if the PS4 owners are buying Vita's that would be a good outlook. But it is more likely that Vita owners are buying PS4s, so the percentage will drop off quite a bit soon.
I would say iOS and Android are rivals for Vita/3DS as well. And those have 100% digital sales... I still consider 48% a ridiculous low number for digital sales when 100% of the games are available digital and 50% or more are available only digital.
I would say iOS and Android are rivals for Vita/3DS as well. And those have 100% digital sales... I still consider 48% a ridiculous low number for digital sales when 100% of the games are available digital and 50% or more are available only digital.
RumblePuff
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Dragon1893
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sörine;100398356 said:
You don't need to have all your games on the card at all times. Considering the prices of the cards common sense leads people to use the backup utility and only carry the games they are playing.
Hell, a 16 gig card can hold a lot of games, specially if you play a lot of indie and PSP/PSone games.
I have P4G, Wipeout 2048, LBP, FFT, Flower, Muramasa and the Toukiden and Soul Sacrifice demos on mine right now and there's still over 5 gigs left.
BebopMcJigglypuff
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Well I for one got the vita after the ps4 and don't really care about remote play as lately I don't have to share my TV. Haven't even tried it. Bought my memory card from Japan...
I mostly got it because as a primarily pc gamer I never really got PS+ until now. It's nice, but now I'm really never going to catch up on my backlog.
The vita has been great this week as I'm stuck in the hospital. Been playing through xenogears... I had forgotten how awful the text scrolling is.
It kind of amuses me that anyone expects the "mainstream consumers" to be buying $4-500 consoles in large numbers near launch time.
Incidentally I've bought physical copies of tearaway and ys, and a digital copy of killzone mercenaries during a sale. I had a bunch of ps1 games on my ps3 so those probably don't count. The rest of my purchases will likely be digital though.
I mostly got it because as a primarily pc gamer I never really got PS+ until now. It's nice, but now I'm really never going to catch up on my backlog.
The vita has been great this week as I'm stuck in the hospital. Been playing through xenogears... I had forgotten how awful the text scrolling is.
It kind of amuses me that anyone expects the "mainstream consumers" to be buying $4-500 consoles in large numbers near launch time.
Incidentally I've bought physical copies of tearaway and ys, and a digital copy of killzone mercenaries during a sale. I had a bunch of ps1 games on my ps3 so those probably don't count. The rest of my purchases will likely be digital though.
Yep, that's what I get from that statistic
Dark_AnNiaLatOr
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Seems pretty damn hard to believe.
IdreamofHIME
Member
Sony fans gonna Sony.
It won't be that in 12 months.
It won't be that in 12 months.
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