PS VITA Remote Play: What do you think it will be like?

[PoTo]

As far as Remote Play goes in general on the PS4 and Vita, I hear it's fairly solid, but the lag varies upon connection. However, I'm not so sure FFXIV:ARR will play too pleasantly on it. I like the idea and would like to try it someday because I think it could be cool and fun, but I honestly think controlling it might be a problem.

[Axidrain]

As far as Remote Play goes in general on the PS4 and Vita, I hear it's fairly solid, but the lag varies upon connection. However, I'm not so sure FFXIV:ARR will play too pleasantly on it. I like the idea and would like to try it someday because I think it could be cool and fun, but I honestly think controlling it might be a problem.

It depends on the players I guess. Since the vita is pretty much an all in one device. Touchscreen, dual analog sticks, full button controls. So controlling the game wouldn't be much different than playing with the normal ps3 controller. I guess with the touchpad you can aim your place-able aoe abilities too which is a plus. If anything, I bet the problem would lie with the small screen size of the vita. Might be a challenge to read anything in the game.

[Yurimi]

I am actually really excited for this. At the moment I use a streamer client called "everyair" to play on iPad but I would defintiely prefer playing on vita. I dont think I will be raiding on the Vita but I would enjoy just doing crafting or harvesting or questing and maybe just simple dungeoning on it. a little latency isnt a problem because all fights are scripted there is little suprise to come.

[HakuroDK]

I think it'll act in much the same way as Virtual Console Remote Play does now. The graphics will be a lower quality, control input response times will increase significantly, and I doubt any form of chat could be read or responded to properly.

My full intent with the Remote Play feature is to level Gathering and Crafting skills on the go. I would be crazy to attempt to perform any kind of combat in Remote Play mode, unless I am proven completely wrong.

[Namasu]

Remote play can be done flawlessly if the network hardware is decent. If you guys got in steam in-home streaming beta it's essentially the same concept.

I have steam installed on both my desktop and laptop. I use steam to launch FF14 on my desktop which does all the processing workload.

I can now stream the game from my desktop to my crappy laptop that would've never been able to run FF14 at max graphic. The fps is always stable and only stutter ever so slightly if your wifi experiences signal loss (which is why I recommended decent network hardware). The input from my laptop back to my pc is also smooth and is hardly a problem. I have yet to test with an actual game controller but I'm sure it'll still be good.

This is pretty much the equivalent of PS4 + Vita for PC and I'd definitely recommend this solution for any PC enthusiast interested in mobile gaming but doesn't want to bust out cash for a high end gaming laptop.

[WHS]

I've been testing this out after I opened the thread with Assassin's Creed IV and it has been working flawlessly. I can do either straight wifi to wifi between vita and ps4 or just use my router and do it like that. I have a netgear ac6300v2 router and my wifi at home is very stable. Too bad vita is only 2.4ghz instead of 5ghz but it works fine. No lag and no problems with graphics looking as good as my tv does. Smaller but still good just the same. I have tried it at starbucks and would you believe it, it works there too. Not as perfect as it did in my own network but I can keep up with it just fine. I would recommend this solution to anyone that has a very good wifi at home. Do not recommend if you have cheap network gear installed or lots of 2.4ghz interference.

[PoTo]

It depends on the players I guess. Since the vita is pretty much an all in one device. Touchscreen, dual analog sticks, full button controls. So controlling the game wouldn't be much different than playing with the normal ps3 controller. I guess with the touchpad you can aim your place-able aoe abilities too which is a plus. If anything, I bet the problem would lie with the small screen size of the vita. Might be a challenge to read anything in the game.

Well there's only two shoulder buttons as oppose to 4 and using the touch panel hasn't proven to be a good alternative from my own and others' experiences (as far as other remote play games go), so I still think there might be some problems with controls though I'm sure one could eventually get used to it. And yeah, the screen size was another thing I forgot about that can make it a little challenging. Overall, though, I hope that it can work well enough to be bearable and fun because, like I said, I would really like to give it a shot.

[Zumi]

The delay from PS4 to Vita is microseconds shouldn't be an issue if you are already use to playing with a controller. Only troublesome thing is having to use the touch pad for 2 buttons.

[Mikedizzy]

I would buy the Vita just to level my Gatherer and Crafters. I wonder if it would work for doing like hunting log and stuff that would be cool. If it ran good enough I could level characters anywhere...nice!!!!!!!!!!

[Zantetsuken]

I'm definitely looking forward to playing FFXIV on my Vita.. It's the biggest selling point of the PS4 at the moment.