The possibilities of PS3-PSP connectivity

[gunntims0103]

news via psp fanboy

The PS3 and PSP are going to be great friends. Sure, they won't be able to play with each other when the PLAYSTATION 3 comes out, but they will in the future, and the possibilities are exciting. chubgians, IGN's ultimate PSP fanboy, recently wrote a massive essay on how PS3-PSP connecitivty can succeed where GCN-GBA has failed. Some of the key points to note:

* The two systems were made to work with each other: look at the XMB. Also, there's no extra cables to buy: just use the PSP's wi-fi connection, or the USB cable that's connected to the controller.
* Even without any software, you can access content on the PS3 from your PSP. With the Gamecube, your GBA cables were useless unless you had a game that supported it... and those were quite few in number.
* Accessing the Friends feature of the PS3 from the PSP will be incredible: imagine, a universal play experience on your PS3 and PSP. It's starting with games like Cash Money Chaos.

[mercury]

I'm looking forward to seeing what Sony come up with and if it will meet our expectations.
By the time the PS3 gets released in europe we should have a good idea of the kind of interoperability that is possible. Im just hoping all the speculation about remote playing games on the PSP and using it as a wireless controller with extra screen info is true!

[TacticalBread]

I like how they're comparing the PS3 to GameCube, when the GameCube came out around the same time as PS2 and PS2 had no connectivity (althought it had nothing to connect to).