Guacamelee has expanded Vita controller functionality

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Drinkbox Studios will be attending this year's PAX Prime festivities in Seattle at the end of this month, and while it's there the developer will be showing off one of the benefits of Guacamelee's PlayStation 3/Vita exclusivity.

"We're integrating the Vita as a PS3 controller for Guacamelee, utilizing the Vita screen for a mini-map, and hopefully more," Drinkbox's Chris McQuinn told Joystiq. "Does this sound like a next-gen console you've heard of perhaps? As far as we know, we're the first game doing this."

PAX Prime attendees, however, won't need a transmedia map on a $250 handheld to find Guacamelee on the show floor: Juicebox will be setting up shop inside the Indie Megabooth, which will be discernible from other, mainstream booths due to its abundance of pixel art and stylish, easily accessible development teams.
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Source: Joystiq

View the debut trailer here my fellow Pekoponians: http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/tq54zd/guacamelee-debut-trailer
 
Sounds neat. I was already planning on getting it for the B1GB offer, but now I might play the PS3 version instead of the Vita, and use the Vita as a controller. Interested to try it out.


Just need a release date.
 
-Cade said:
Sounds neat. I was already planning on getting it for the B1GB offer, but now I might play the PS3 version instead of the Vita, and use the Vita as a controller. Interested to try it out.


Just need a release date.
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I hear you. It looks like a fun game. I will definitely be getting it on my PS3.
 
Bundle PS Vita with PS4? (Please don't hit me)

I wonder if Sony will "encourage" devs to continue making these features given the capabilities of the Wii U.
 
The_Inquisitor said:
I wonder if Sony will "encourage" devs to continue making these features given the capabilities of the Wii U.
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Sony got a patent for the handheld used as an extra screen for the console. It was pointed out back when the WiiU was only a rumor.

That's why I went and got this image, because that's all I can think of everytime I think of Sony and patents.
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"We're integrating the Vita as a PS3 controller for Guacamelee, utilizing the Vita screen for a mini-map, and hopefully more," Drinkbox's Chris McQuinn told Joystiq. "Does this sound like a next-gen console you've heard of perhaps? As far as we know, we're the first game doing this."
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As a Wii U's Gamepad fan, this literally makes me sick.
 
"We're integrating the Vita as a PS3 controller for Guacamelee, utilizing the Vita screen for a mini-map, and hopefully more," Drinkbox's Chris McQuinn told Joystiq. "Does this sound like a next-gen console you've heard of perhaps? As far as we know, we're the first game doing this."
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Four Swords Adventures does all of that and The Wind Waker does a lot of that.

I am interested in seeing how it's implemented. IIRC the Vita nor original PSP have the equivalent of DS Download or GBA download.

Edit: I see you get both versions of the game when you buy it, so maybe that's how.
 
The_Inquisitor said:
Bundle PS Vita with PS4? (Please don't hit me)

I wonder if Sony will "encourage" devs to continue making these features given the capabilities of the Wii U.
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Bundle it with the ps3.

Make all vita games work on ps3 and vita and all games become a buy 1 get both approach.

Expands the life of the ps3 and makes the vita viable in a market where it is extremely struggling.
 
There have been rumblings of this sort of technology dating back to the PSP. Remember how Gran Turismo 5 was supposed to let you use your PSP as a rear-view mirror + controller?
 
Should be interesting to see if WiiU ports to PS3 will have this functionality built in. SmartGlass is one thing, but the Vita & PS3 could almost flawlessly replicate the experience given through ZombiU on WiiU.
 
"Does this sound like a next-gen console you've heard of perhaps? As far as we know, we're the first game doing this."
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what an assholish comment, specially weird not coming from a sony rep

Neat implementation, but comparing like that to the WiiU is silly considering the price point
 
The_Inquisitor said:
Bundle PS Vita with PS4? (Please don't hit me)

I wonder if Sony will "encourage" devs to continue making these features given the capabilities of the Wii U.
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Or bundle it with that rumored barebones PS3 and expand Remote Play for all PS3 library at Wii U launch.
 
Why would you do that? said:
I am interested in seeing how it's implemented. IIRC the Vita nor original PSP have the equivalent of DS Download or GBA download.
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PSP has Game Sharing feature, which is basically the same as DS Download. (A bootable app stored in memory that contains a portion of a game for multiplayer or demo sharing.) As a multiplayer fan it's disheartening to see that feature not on the Vita menu (not that it was used like crazy on PSP, but there are notable games that employ Game Sharing, some of the perfect-for-it games like Bomberman and Tekken and MGS Portable Ops and M.A.C.H. had it, but so few games overall did and nobody ever gave the system credit for the feature.) A simple update or app addition on Vita, though, and it could include that feature set easily if they felt it was needed.

Vita also could communicate to the PS3 via a dedicated App download from PSN (buy Guacamelee and get a free map app for Vita) or that same app could be transferred over USB. Or, the joint game versions could have the feature, as you mentioned. Or they could go through Remote Play. There are lots of ways for Vita to talk to PS3.

tearsofash said:
There have been rumblings of this sort of technology dating back to the PSP. Remember how Gran Turismo 5 was supposed to let you use your PSP as a rear-view mirror + controller?
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Maybe GT5 had that story surrounding it too, but it was the F1 game that originally this feature was talked about and shown with. Most of that rumbling was just rumbling, but it did in fact ship in gameplay where PSP and PS3 were used in combo for a game using Remote Play. Somebody else on GAF hipped me to this years ago, Singstar actually lets you cue up a playlist on the system, so you can set up the next song or pass around the portable for others to check out the song selection on the portable while somebody's doing their karaoke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxy5ePEPw_c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZWx7WPqmxM

For maps and features like this, it's a great tool that I wish Sony would use more often (with Remote Play alone, the Vita would make a pretty good DualShock replacement for many of the kinds of games that Wii U is now experimenting with, and that's not even considering the app or USB approach.) For gaming use though, the protocol used to talk between PS3 and Vita is not very efficient (I'm not sure what it's limited to but even on Vita the lag doesn't seem to be gone so the more modern wireless features of Vita haven't helped over the 802.11b of the PSP.) The impressions of Wii U have been completely opposite expectations of lag fear so I assume their dedicated networking technology is more robust.
 
This would be awesome if it was B1G2 .. and really only for the novelty. Not sure I would be bothered to get my PS3 running if it is already in my hands but would definitely be fun to try out.
 
Besides using GBAs for Four Swords, Wind Waker, and one of the GC Splinter Cell games, you can also use a Vita as the controller for the PS3 version of Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. You have to have both copies of the game available to do it though, IIRC.
 
I wonder if Digital Foundry will find that the transfer between the PS3 and Vita and the PS3 and the TV is actually FASTER to the Vita than to the TV. You know, because that's what they found with the Wii U.
 
in b 4 the:
vita is doomed so this won't work, nintendo did this first, sony lost 47 trillon dollars, and ate my cat
 
Someone did it first, someone always does something first then others follow and iterate on it, I truly don't see anything wrong with that.
 
danhese007 said:
Someone did it first, someone always does something first then others follow and iterate on it, I truly don't see anything wrong with that.
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a lot of people did this first
a long time ago
and a lot better

in the OP, they are literally claiming to be the first to do this, explicitly comparing themselves to Nintendo.
 
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