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what's up guys it's Lou from unbox therapy and today we're going to look at the PS Vita more specifically its ability to play games remotely via the Remote Play feature now first you're going to have to register the device in order to take advantage you want to select the remote play icon underneath your settings menu within your ps3 that will pump out a code that you've got to input to your PS Vita kind of like when you pair a bluetooth device or something along those lines it's pretty easy to do and I suppose that you probably won't have to do it again assuming that the devices remember this data hopefully next time you just boot it up select the connect button and it will remember that the two have been paired previously now in my case I'm going to connect via private network I want to get the best speeds possible for the purpose of this demonstration you can even set up the PS Vita to turn on your ps3 remotely which is kind of a cool feature now this is not completely seamless I encountered a couple of issues pretty much straight away the first and biggest issue is the fact that most titles are not supported via remote play at least at the moment I tried a number of different disk based full ps3 titles and I got the same error message every time this content cannot be viewed during remote player cannot be played during remote play etc even titles that were downloaded from the store the PSN store wouldn't open either so a major headache I was only able to find one title that would open and that's Bionic Commando that's it's been sitting on my hard drive for a little while and I finally finally found a reason to open it back up for the purpose of this demonstration here but even that game once I got it started I noticed a few issues the first was the fact that it wasn't really running that smoothly I don't know if it's a little bit of input lag or maybe a frame rate issue I'm not sure the game is obviously streaming over the Wi-Fi networks so I kind of expected that it might not be perfect there are a few things you can do from the menu here you can turn down the image quality in order to try and get a their frame rate but I didn't notice notice a huge difference in my case and you know I sort of realized that this is a bit of a gimmick this this feature at the moment is not the most useful considering that the titles don't support it you know everybody's going to want to boot up their favorite game and check it out via remote play and they're going to find out real quick that that's just not possible and I'm kind of hoping that once this feature rolls out or this device even rolls out to the rest of the world maybe Sony will attempt to improve it or attempt to provide some sort of incentive for game developers to support it because at this point it's just an advertising gimmick I mean they've been really pushing this as a big feature and it's kind of disappointing at this point I mean how can it not be the whole purpose is to play games and if games aren't supported then it's useless and on top of that it's not just games that are presenting a problem it's also other features and functions that aren't supported for example in my case I've got Netflix installed on my ps3 and I've even got an NHL specific application for tracking stats and watching games I believe it's called center ice or or game station or something along those lines but Game Center sorry about that but once you go to boot it up you get the exact same error message can't function Netflix same message can't function so to say that I'm disappointed is probably an understatement I really expected to use this feature and that's just not going to happen without content to use it with so if you guys are thinking of importing one of these are buying one of these to use with that feature definitely think twice for the time being this system is going to be much more useful for local games or games downloaded specifically for it anyway guys if you enjoyed this content hopefully you can like and favorite this video as it does help me out a bunch and if you haven't subscribed yet please go ahead and do so I got a lot more content planned including more PS Vita based stuff so definitely stay tuned for that anyway guys until next time and as always I want to thank you for watching I'll see you on the next one later