PSY・S;47941382 said:
I read it as this:
- This would be amazing since the Vita could get console-wide remote-play.
- I thought it was watching people's gameplay, NOT their camera feeds. Kind of like what Onlive does.
- If this is real then I think that the online would be free but all the extras would be locked behind the revamped PS+, which is pretty much the case already with PS+ now.
It's possible, but the way it's worded has it just so that you can log into your console from anywhere, buy things, and have it queue and download them or send messages to people on your friends list.
Why would a PS Eye be required to watch gameplay? If they're streaming, that's just a matter of uploading the stream, you don't need an actual camera for that. So I'm guessing it's you can watch a stream of someone playing their games, like facetime of someone while they're playing. Creepy.
And yeah, maybe they will. Maybe only "new" features will be locked behind the pay sub... but when it says "most" that's a red flag.
Not sure if you understood anything right...
I'm pretty sure they meant you can control PS4 itself with mobile devices (perhaps not play games, but maybe browse the net, play movies, write messages)
That sounded kind of vague... What it says first does sound like that, but then it talks about how you can do this "even if you don't own the game", so it makes me think you can watch someone play whatever GAME they are playing (not them playing the game). But then, why on Earth would you need PS Eye for it?
Well, I'm hoping that with "most", they mean all the extra fluff (save clouds, automatic updates etc.), not the basic stuff that is free now.
Besides, some of the details sound strange. Like how there's this thing called PlayStation World, but how would it "replace" PlayStation+ when PS+ is a kind of digital game "rental" subscription thingie and not the whole PSN service. Shouldn't it replace PSN?
Given Sony's track record, my gut goes to the "worst case" and "stupidity apparent" interpretations of vague statements.
You'll see in the above comments that I agree with you on parts 2 and 3.
And about the "controlling it from a tablet or smartphone" -- I still don't care -- the functionality they're touting in the quote/blurb is what you can do on live.xbox.com right now, save for turning the console on -- buy games and have them queue for download, message back and forth with friends, etc. About the only other hype I could see here would be if you could use your iPad or Kindle Fire or whatever a screen a la the WiiU gamepad so you could play on the tablet while someone else watches TV. It would be awkward to set that up though; the best case here being remote play of everything on Vita... but we don't know what that means yet either.
Fallout New Vita, Batman Arkham game on Vita and whatnot... did someone say/hint that some well regarded home console 3rd party franchise is coming to Vita?