Remote Play - Stay Away

On 03/12/2017 at 10:20 AM by mothman

I checked out Remote Play for PS3 and PS4 on my Vita for the first time the other day and yesterday I tried remote play from PS4 to my laptops.

What a mess.

First let's talk about PS3 RP on Vita. It's pretty much useless for games unless you want to play a PSX game on your Vita. Wait a minute can't I already play PSX games on my Vita?

No PS3 games that I've tried will play, No PS2 classics work. I did find that I could load Syberia II but that was the extent of it.

The PS4 fares better in terms of what you can play but I wouldn't bother if I were you. You can only go as high as 720p on a PC unless you have a PS4 Pro. The standard PS4 can barely handle streaming at 720p. Digital artifacts and a line through the middle of the screen that jerks around when you move are the order of the day.

I've read that if you have an all wired network it works a lot better but who the hell has all their devices hooked up that way.

I was hoping to be able to use Remote Play to play some console games while my son is in the game room. Very disappointed.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

03/12/2017 at 12:52 PM

yeah I've tried streaming PS4 to Vita. The most successful was a PS2 game, Rogue Galaxy, but I also played a bit of Dragon Age and it wasn't SO bad. Not having double triggers really sucks though.

Super Step Contributing Writer

03/12/2017 at 01:38 PM

That stinks. There are definitely a lot of overpromised and underdelivered features from Sony. And Istill see no indication I received the latest system update.

mothman

03/12/2017 at 07:08 PM

Just go to settings > system update and check although it should have happened automatically/

03/13/2017 at 01:26 AM

Ok yeah i have version 4.5 and now a TLG theme from a pic i took.

jgusw

03/12/2017 at 10:34 PM

I played SF4, Dragon Age, and The Witcher 3 on my Vita and I didn't have many problems. I didn't play for long though. I just wanted to see if it worked.

03/13/2017 at 05:29 PM

It's not to evident on the Vita unless you play for a while but PC remote play, holy crap it's bad.

Blake Turner Staff Writer

03/13/2017 at 06:16 PM

Damn that sucks. i was planning on giving this a go. Thanks for the warning!

daftman

03/13/2017 at 10:34 PM

I tried one time with Destiny but it was super janky. Not surprising, I figured, since the game is always online and then trying to stream it. Haven't tried since though. Our PS4 is not wired and our wireless is definitely not the fastest there is

KnightDriver

03/13/2017 at 11:43 PM

Darn it. And I wanted to do that and pretend I was playing the Switch.

goaztecs

03/14/2017 at 11:48 AM

I tried remote play from the PS4 to Vita and had better luck. I think I played a little bit of one of the Lego games. I was disappointed that the remote play to PSP was a failure that when it worked on that one game I tried I was excited. Another time I tried I think it lost connection.

As for the PS4 to PC, I tried it, its ok, but it is a feature I know I won't use.

PixlBit