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Vita Lawsuit Winnings
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full info here:Cierra said:
http://www.polygon.com/2014/11/25/7282381/playstation-vita-settlement-false-advertising-ftc
in short, they advertised something that wasn't true.
They stated that:
1- the Vita would be capable of online play in games like Call of Duty or Wipeout 2048 through the 3G. However that's not actually possible.
The 3G doesn't have the necessary sustained speed needed for gameplay. It can only really supply speeds of 48 kilobytes per second if in a moving vehicle and 256 kilobytes per second if standing/walking slowly. Which is little better than dialup on the low end and just above an entry level ADSL on the higher end. And since the connection speed can plummet so quickly, it means the connection isn't fast or stable enough to handle the rigours of online gaming. 4G would be needed to hand actual online gameplay, with it's entry level speed of 21 Mbps or 2.6 megabytes per second download speed.
2- players could suspend games on PS3 and pick them up on Vita.
This only worked for a few titles (MLB being one) and even then you had to own a copy of the game for both PS3 and Vita. Plus there were often limits on how and when you could suspend/resume. (Like you couldn't suspend mid game in MLB.) So the process was no where's near seamless or as easy as they made it appear.
3- players could use remote play to continue their PS3 games while away.
Very few PS3 games supported this. (Offhand, I don't know of any that actually did...) Most times you could play older titles like PS1 games through remote play though.
It wasn't until the PS4 where remote play worked as they had intended it to. (Reason being was that the PS3 lacked the CPU/GPU power and system memory to run the game and then broadcast it.)
1- the Vita would be capable of online play in games like Call of Duty or Wipeout 2048 through the 3G. However that's not actually possible.
The 3G doesn't have the necessary sustained speed needed for gameplay. It can only really supply speeds of 48 kilobytes per second if in a moving vehicle and 256 kilobytes per second if standing/walking slowly. Which is little better than dialup on the low end and just above an entry level ADSL on the higher end. And since the connection speed can plummet so quickly, it means the connection isn't fast or stable enough to handle the rigours of online gaming. 4G would be needed to hand actual online gameplay, with it's entry level speed of 21 Mbps or 2.6 megabytes per second download speed.
2- players could suspend games on PS3 and pick them up on Vita.
This only worked for a few titles (MLB being one) and even then you had to own a copy of the game for both PS3 and Vita. Plus there were often limits on how and when you could suspend/resume. (Like you couldn't suspend mid game in MLB.) So the process was no where's near seamless or as easy as they made it appear.
3- players could use remote play to continue their PS3 games while away.
Very few PS3 games supported this. (Offhand, I don't know of any that actually did...) Most times you could play older titles like PS1 games through remote play though.
It wasn't until the PS4 where remote play worked as they had intended it to. (Reason being was that the PS3 lacked the CPU/GPU power and system memory to run the game and then broadcast it.)