Gaming Signal: PSP to play PS3 games?

PSP to play PS3 games?

The November issues of Game Informer magazine indicates that Sony has announced plans to allow the Remote Play feature (which allows the Playstation Portable to utilize the Playstation 3's browser and view video content remotely today) to play games from the PS3 at the recent Tokyo Games Show. That is to say: a PSP wirelessly hooked to the Internet could connect to your PS3 at home and play games from it anywhere in the world. All I can say to that is: Wow.

Now it isn't clear which games can be played that way - just PSOne games or any PS3 title. If you can play PS3 titles it isn't obvious to me how the PSPs limited controls could work right. The technology behind this apparently has the PS3 rending the game in the resolution of the PS3 and streaming the video output to it. I saw somebody complain that this proved the PS3 hardware wasn't all that advanced if the PSP could play the game but that person didn't understand the technology - the PS3 is doing the heavy lifting, the PSP is just acting as a remote terminal.

In any case, this is the first time I've been interested in a PS3. Of course, there would have to be some unique content for it too and so far, that seems to be lacking. Until that happens, I'll stick with my 360.

Remote Play is not a new feature of the PS3. It was originally pitched during the launch of the PS3, and was having the PSP working as a rear view mirror for games like Gran Turismo. Another interesting point was that Lair offered "full playability" using this tool.

Posted by Tim on Thursday November 15, 2007 at 10:48 AM