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[Shahed]

Bundled huh. Part of me doesn't mind in that it needs to be bundled for proper support throughout the PS4's lifetime. But the other part hates motion tech and just hopes all functionality is optional

Not really news at this point, we already had yosp (who is a pretty good source!) unofficially confirm this months ago.

As a Vita owner, I think it's a really cool feature. Also, 4x OGSSAA for 1080p games!

They'd be downsampled right? Should be awesome for IQ.

Still I'd probably very rarely use it

 

[ItAintEasyBeinCheesy]

Hopefully it will require some sort adaptor.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

that part

Huh, i must have missed that sentence. Silly phone and its small screen.

 

[PaulLFC]

I own a Vita, so this is great news.

 

[teruterubozu]

Vita, Camera and PS4 bundled? What's that? At least $900?

 

[amstradcpc]

Oh so the camera is bundled?

They have to tick the "skype" checkbox.

 

[lightlamp4]

I wonder if this bundled camera will be required to be always connected.

 

[Razlo]

I use off screen play constantly on my Wii U, so this is great news!

 

[Sickboy007]

Vita, Camera and PS4 bundled? What's that? At least $900?

The camera is thought to be pretty cheap. 15-20 bucks.

 

[Nikodemos]

Whats the range like for remote play? Can I take it while travelling?

Anywhere there's wifi. Though you'd need a strong, stable connection.

Would it be feasible for Sony to employ part of the Vita's storage as a game buffer of sorts?

 

[doniewhalberg]

Vita with a 7 inch screen please? Or just a playstation tablet with the same buttons that rips out the vita functionality for the bigger screen to balance off the cost pls.

 

[Corto]

Thought it was already known. Great to see one more source indicating it. Second screen done right.

 

[Rootbeer]

They mean local remote, not REMOTE remote, right?

I want to be able to use my Vita at work to play the PS4 sitting alone and unused at home T__T I have fast internet at both, it should be allowed.

 

[LiquidSolid]

Hopefully this mandate does about as well as Vita sales.

Wait, are you trying to say that you hope the mandate isn't successful? Because that makes no sense and shows that you don't understand what mandate means.

Anyway, given what Sony have been saying, this is no surprise. Good move.

 

[Kyoufu]

Didn't we know this already?

 

[Nikodemos]

Vita, Camera and PS4 bundled? What's that? At least $900?

$699, to troll the crap out of the "$599" brigade.

 

[Audioboxer]

America Sony, fuck yeah!

 

[SmokyDave]

This could potentially be huge for Vita owners. My only worry is the prospect of lag, but given that they seem to be very serious about this from the beginning, it might be fine.

If it lives up to potential, I'll probably end up playing more PS4 games on the Vita than on the console itself.

 

[Toki767]

I would imagine that since Kinect comes bundled with the Xbox One, if the PS4 Eye comes bundled with the PS4 there may be quite a bit more games that use a camera. Maybe just for voice control.

 

[Pano]

Sony have to do a PS4/Vita bundle surely?

 

[AOC83]

This still won't shift any Vita's.

Of course not.

And come on Sony just fuck off with this camera bullshit, make an extra bundle or whatever but leave me alone with this garbage.

 

[UrSuLeTZuL]

What about ps3 then? Most games don't use the eye and would love to see much more games that support remote play via vita, or at least GT6.

 

[IonicSnake]

They mean local remote, not REMOTE remote, right?

I want to be able to use my Vita at work to play the PS4 sitting alone and unused at home T__T

You already can on PS3, although it's not on the level of PS4 but you can still remoteplay your PS3 with your Vita/PSP anywhere in the world as long as your PS3 is set to remoteplay and you have a wifi connection.

 

[SmokyDave]

What about ps3 then? Most games don't use the eye and would love to see much more games that support remote play via vita, or at least GT6.

It doesn't really have the necessary hardware, being 802.11b/g.

 

[bobbytkc]

What about ps3 then? Most games don't use the eye and would love to see much more games that support remote play via vita, or at least GT6.

Remote play ps3 takes resources away from the main game. Won't happen.

 

[Rootbeer]

You already can on PS3, although it's not on the level of PS4 but you can still remoteplay your PS3 with your Vita/PSP anywhere in the world as long as your PS3 is set to remoteplay and you have a wifi connection.

Huh... well I'm going to look into this! I need to be able to play Dragon's Dogma anytime I want.

 

[Durante]

Didn't we know this already?

We've known for months, then ~1 month ago we got the "news" that it was going to happen, and now we get the news again.

I assume we'll receive the news once more at E3!

Yeah, but since its made by sony, its good.

When it was just a nintendo gimmick, it was bad

I think what most people called a "gimmick" is dual screen play at the same time. This (and Wii U remote play) is just a different output device, and increaases flexibility. Of course, there's also a huge quality (and price) difference.

 

[Callibretto]

They mean local remote, not REMOTE remote, right?

I want to be able to use my Vita at work to play the PS4 sitting alone and unused at home T__T I have fast internet at both, it should be allowed.

if your internet is fast enough and have low latency, you can do that I think.

 

[Elixist]

fuck the camera wow i dont want to pay for that shit i dont want it.

 

[amstradcpc]

$699, to troll the crap out of the "$599" brigade.

A boucher discount for buying a Vita if you buy a PS4 would be enough.

 

[Monty Mole]

Will this use any resources? Or will it use the video-sharing processor thingy?

 

[PdotMichael]

This could potentially be huge for Vita owners. My only worry is the prospect of lag, but given that they seem to be very serious about this from the beginning, it might be fine.

Should be a non-factor - Vita and PS4 support the IEEE 802.11n standard (WiiU uses literally the same thing) unlike the PS3.

Remote play (local) should have the same input lag as your console+tv.

 

[sajj316]

As much as I like this, the hope is that Sony/Publishers do not put similar pieces of software at almost the same time. Ex Killzone Shadowfall and Mercenary.

 

[Aostia]

This could potentially be huge for Vita owners. My only worry is the prospect of lag, but given that they seem to be very serious about this from the beginning, it might be fine.

If it lives up to potential, I'll probably end up playing more PS4 games on the Vita than on the console itself.

considering how often I use the offtv with the gamepad, I agree.
I don't own a Vita yet, so a bundle would be really tempting if it comes at a very good price. Would be a really great additional function, imho.

 

[amstradcpc]

This could potentially be huge for Vita owners. My only worry is the prospect of lag, but given that they seem to be very serious about this from the beginning, it might be fine.

If it lives up to potential, I'll probably end up playing more PS4 games on the Vita than on the console itself.

If conexion is going through wifi direct instead of via router it will have probably almost no lag.

 

[Callibretto]

Huh... well I'm going to look into this! I need to be able to play Dragon's Dogma anytime I want.

ps3 games need to be supported though because remote play on ps3 require extra resources, there's very few ps3 that support remote play. I don't think dragon dogma is one of them

 

[Blablurn]

I like where this is going. Good job, Sony!

 

[Herb Alpert]

What about the latency? The no-latency thingy is seemingly the only expensive part of the gamepad, so how well do you expect PS4/vita remote play to work? (no sarcasm please, I'm curious about that)

 

[Corto]

They mean local remote, not REMOTE remote, right?

I want to be able to use my Vita at work to play the PS4 sitting alone and unused at home T__T I have fast internet at both, it should be allowed.

Current remote play feature allows that. You can play games on the Vita/PSP through the internet from on your PS3. The performance is not good though. Even with high speed internet. Too much lag and occasional freeze.

 

[Auto_aim1]

This gives the handheld access to the entire PS4 library which will have solid third party support. Would be funny if the PS4 manages to save the Vita and rejuvenates the platform.

 

[Fusebox]

They mean local remote, not REMOTE remote, right?

I want to be able to use my Vita at work to play the PS4 sitting alone and unused at home T__T I have fast internet at both, it should be allowed.

Yep, at the moment there's a bit of lag using it over the Internet on PS3 and it makes games like God of War II impossible to play but it would be fine for a turn based RPG or something else that isn't latency critical.

 

[IonicSnake]

Huh... well I'm going to look into this! I need to be able to play Dragon's Dogma anytime I want.

Don't think Dragons Dogma works via remoteplay on PS3, the PS3 remoteplay is very limited when it comes to games.

 

[stryke]

Will this use any resources? Or will it use the video-sharing processor thingy?

Remote Play works by downscaling the 1080p framebuffer to the Vita's native 960x544 resolution, using the PS4's in-built hardware h.264 video encoder to compress the image.

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[GeoramA]

Makes me downright giddy as a Vita owner. Like PS Plus, it's another cool feature that just fell right into our laps.

 

[Durante]

Will this use any resources? Or will it use the video-sharing processor thingy?

The system is encoding video at all times. The assumption is that this will just use that video stream, which exists already. So it won't cause any additional performance penalty.

 

[wapplew]

Vita with a 7 inch screen please? Or just a playstation tablet with the same buttons that rips out the vita functionality for the bigger screen to balance off the cost pls.

7" vita is not a bad idea at all... I like it alot! Just need a better browser and LTE support we are good to go.

 

[AbandonedTrolley]

Cannot wait for this

Really Sony are doing everything right in my books. Even IF they bring on used game DRM I'm not that fussed as I don't tend to buy used or sell my copies on. I can see why people are unhappy with what's going on in the used market though.

 

[NorthernAvengeR]

PSP - PS3 =
PSV - PS3 = :|
PSV - PS4 = ?

Third time's the charm?

 

[SmokedMeat]

As a Vita owner this makes me soooo happy. I can finally dust it off and play it again.

 

[Tantalus]

This is cool. I hope Sony have more mandatory features this time around instead of the "developers can add this if they really want to" system