Enterprising hackers, who have cracked open the PS3′s v3.55 firmware, now have a pretty neat feature running on Sony’s new handheld: the ability to remotely play games like Battlefield 3 on a PlayStation Vita.
While remote play itself is nothing new, having been enabled between the PS3 and PSP (and already some Vita games), it’s far from a widespread feature. And is definitely not supported on games like Battlefield 3, Arkham Asylum or Red Dead Redemption.
Yet in the video above, there they are, running on that sexy little screen with those sexy little thumbsticks. Sure, there’s massive amounts of lag, but dammit, that’s what me must endure to have progress!
Hacked PS3 games running on Vita via Remote Play [Eurogamer, via Joystiq]
Martin
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 3:09 PMThe current lag on psp – ps3 makes most of the neo geo and ps1 titles Ive tried – unplayable.
Ynefel
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 3:30 PMThe biggest bottleneck on the PSP is that it’s only 802.11a/b. Wireless B only goes up to 11mbps – woeful. That being said, the little guy is getting pretty old now.
Wireless N on the Vita would in theory make it more plausible, but it’s still streaming over wireless, I think you’d expect delays no matter how good they get, even if it’s only half a second.
Still very impressive this early on!
Craig
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 3:23 PMUpdated firmware that “Improves the playback quality of some PS3 format software” in 3,2,1……
Pariah
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 6:55 PMThis was done on 3.55. We’re on 4.00 at the moment. I doubt an update will come out that will disable something we can’t actually use.
SOX
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 4:00 PMMan that Vita looks niiiiiiiiiiiiiice. Must resistttttttttttt
Aaron
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 4:30 PMsurely Sony must know that enabling this feature would help their cause…
Get onto it Hirai! He reads Kotaku right?
Zap
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 4:49 PMIt’d be awesome.
However, if it can’t be improved beyond this sort of lag, imagine the outcry if they released it as a “feature”.
I think that comes into play more often than not – they CAN do something, it’s just not high quality, and they’ll get destroyed for it, so why do it?
Matthew
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 6:50 PMEven if they sneak it in a hidden feature, I’d love to see them enable streaming on all games.
If it worked well enough it would mean I’d buy all new cross platform games for my PS3 rather than for Xbox.
notfrank
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 7:39 PMSo do you jailbreak these using a bug in the Battery firmware like the psp? Rofl.