PS3-PSP connect-demo at CETEC 2006 – with conflicting reports

Because TGS 2006 isn’t big enough for more syrupy PSP and PS3 goodness, Sony demoed the “Remote Play” functions of the two at CETEC JAPAN 2006. And GameWatch and Famitsu were both there to cover it all, and tell all about it. Also, as PSPVault found out, they both came away with radically different ideas of how Remote Play Works.

GameWatch says that Sony says that the PS3 will “throw” (yep, “throw”) its video signal to the PSP using Wi-Fi. This means that the PSP can be used to control and see the related PS3 game, making the handheld sort of a Location-free PS3 – minus the six-axis motion-sense, right analog stick, and two shoulder buttons, though.

But Famitsu says that Remote Play is all about (and we quote PSPVault’s quoting): “download[ing] Playstation 3 content to the PSP.” Now that may read as somewhat like GameWatch’s take – which is transmitting PS3 signals to the PSP – but it may also mean that Remote Play is primarily limited to trading game data between the two machines, and not necessarily PS3 in-game control with the PSP.

We would like to think it would be both – hey, the only limits to PSP-PS3 in-game interaction are the bandwidth limits of Wi-Fi (or a direct USB connection) and how much code it takes to integrate that into a game. We also had that earlier bit from the PS3 F1 racing game that the PSP could be used as a rear-view mirror. And Sony’s Izumi Kawanishi had also mentioned the entire PS3-throwing-video-to-PSP thing last month.

The only thing we’re waiting for now is a video of the demo in action (and someone who can understand the Japanese menu in the Remote Play demo).

Because TGS 2006 isn’t big enough for more syrupy PSP and PS3 goodness, Sony demoed the “Remote Play” functions of the two at CETEC JAPAN 2006. And GameWatch and Famitsu were both there to cover it all, and tell all about it. Also, as PSPVault found out, they both came away with radically different ideas of how Remote Play Works.

GameWatch says that Sony says that the PS3 will “throw” (yep, “throw”) its video signal to the PSP using Wi-Fi. This means that the PSP can be used to control and see the related PS3 game, making the handheld sort of a Location-free PS3 – minus the six-axis motion-sense, right analog stick, and two shoulder buttons, though.

But Famitsu says that Remote Play is all about (and we quote PSPVault’s quoting): “download[ing] Playstation 3 content to the PSP.” Now that may read as somewhat like GameWatch’s take – which is transmitting PS3 signals to the PSP – but it may also mean that Remote Play is primarily limited to trading game data between the two machines, and not necessarily PS3 in-game control with the PSP.

We would like to think it would be both – hey, the only limits to PSP-PS3 in-game interaction are the bandwidth limits of Wi-Fi (or a direct USB connection) and how much code it takes to integrate that into a game. We also had that earlier bit from the PS3 F1 racing game that the PSP could be used as a rear-view mirror. And Sony’s Izumi Kawanishi had also mentioned the entire PS3-throwing-video-to-PSP thing last month.

The only thing we’re waiting for now is a video of the demo in action (and someone who can understand the Japanese menu in the Remote Play demo).