Sony announce plans to release a PS4 Remote Play PC app, ensuring bleak future for the unofficial Remote Play
The dream will have been short lived for developer Twisted. Less than one day after he released an alpha of his long awaited Remote Play PC tool, Sony’s very own Shuhei Yoshida just announced on Twitter that Sony is working on an official PC Remote Play application (see below). Sony’s official app will be compatible with PC and Mac.
Developer Twisted released an unofficial Remote Play app for Windows yesterday. The release generated some controversy, in particular because he decided to make it a paid app, raising concerns on our end that this could attract the wrong kind of attention from Sony. But other than that, his unofficial app is pretty solid.
Twisted initially sold only a limited amount of copies of his Remote Play PC app, and I was one of the lucky people able to get one. I reviewed Remote Play PC earlier today, and I was generally impressed. Twisted’s work has everything one could expect from the real deal.
Twisted’s Remote play – works great, but will probably be short lived
The developer’s goal was initially to sell more licenses starting tomorrow, but it is very likely that the official announce from Sony will change his plans. Best case scenario, Twisted will keep maintaining the app for a little while, but it’s pretty much guaranteed that most people will rather wait for the official app, than have to pay $10 for an unofficial one.
I was afraid that Sony would go after Twisted and his users in a legal way. Instead, they’re playing the best card they possibly can: by releasing an official app, they’ll make everyone happy and will not risk any image disaster by going legally after an indie developer. Not sure how carefully planned this was, but it’s definitely the best move for them and the users.
Some people asked if we plan to provide Remote Play function to PC, and yes, we are indeed working on an official application for PC/Mac. 😀
— Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) November 27, 2015
Now we play the waiting game, to understand how long it’s going to take Sony to release their own Remote Play PC functionality, and what will happen to Twisted’s unofficial Remote Play. I expect the Sony official tool will be free. I would recommend everyone to wait until a clearer schedule is known from Sony, before considering paying for the unofficial app.
Thats Gold, Pure Gold.
I got a suggestion for Twisted why not make a remote play app for the Vita for Android and Vice Versa like we can play PS Vita games streamed on our Android Phone then Android Games played on the Vita Streamed through Android Phones then charge $10 if you want. Then Sony will again follow.
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but I’ll bite: The PS Vita does not have Remote Play streaming capability. Streaming Android to Vita could be a possibility if you could have your Android phone faking a PS4 identity, and then use PS4 remote play on the vita
Moreover, what the point of streaming one portable device’s content to another (with inferior control options, too)? Just bring your Vita along. Streaming from android might be useful, but must devices nowadays have better screens and specs, so you might want to just use vita as game err pad.
You meant streaming PC (steam) to Vita? Then yes.
who would want to stream Android Vita, that’s useless and stupid
Doubt, maybe they’re starting to work on it but the only reason is because they’ve realized a 3rd party solution can’t be defeated other than by defeating it with their own version. Shame to Twisted and all the work he put in.
It’s actually very good, their move it’s so much better than rushing in screaming C&D! C&D!
i wait for the sony release Lucky they didnt sue you lol
I don’t know about his unofficial app pretty much, but if he can make built-in recording system, where users are able to record the PS4 gameplay and turn it into a footage, kinda like capture device like Avermedia or Elgato, that would make his paid app even better because my guess is that Sony’s upcoming PC Remote Play might not have this kind of feature.
Sure there are program like that (Fraps and Bandicam) to record, but built-in is much more better.
That’ll be basically the only way he’ll get on top of the official is by providing features Sony doesn’t offer, and I’m assuming Sony had already thought about doing this and seeing the interest and fact people were willing to pay finally made them bite and announce they would do it.
Imo good marketing strategy wait for someone else to cash-in a bit then break em down and take back over your market.
Unless sony plans on releasing this next week im still buying the unofficial app. You broke *** can whine about not being able to spare 10 dollars, im sure anyone who is interested will get their moneys worth even if its only up a couple of days.
WTG Sony, better than stupid Nintendo that always block everything from youtube to fan made games. I have never bought nintendon’t stuff for over ten years.
I haven’t seen Nintendo try to block CEmu/Dolphin etc yet.
if sony makes it a paid app you can expect all of the other people shitting about twisted making it paid saying words of praise.. dumb idiots.
its funny coz he decided to make it a paid app (and for $10?? really?) and Sony suddenly decided that they will be releasing it for FREE…
anyway, i really don’t see the point of streaming ps4 games to pc… i use a monitor and i only switch from analog to digital…whenever i want to use my pc..
This is useful for those of us who would love to stream to a laptop anywhere in the house, and not have to use the tiny Vita screen, or especially people who don’t even own a Vita.
The good thing about this is that we’ll get a free alternative, but I’m afraid it won’t support mouse+keyboard and the Windows version could be only for Win10 if we’re unlucky. The really bad part is that we’ll probably not see a Linux port of Twist3d’s version unless he releases his source code…
At that time, Twisted (or other devs) will be back to rescue us.
LOL
Its all good twisted needs to now change the plan to freebie before sony requisitions the $€£¥!
psvitalink.be
what about asking for twisted autorejuvenale.
so we dont have to fill in forms
and can autoconnect to psvitatv.
i would even ask for a psvitalink.be bubble :p
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They should just contact Twisted and be like “Hey, can we borrow that app you made and give you money?” And Twisted will be like “Well ***, if yall are gonna make one anyway, at least this way I get some money out of it, sure.” And then Twisted is happy because all his work isn’t wasted and he get’s some money, Sony’s happy because they don’t have to spend time and money working on one and the people are happy because they get an official one sooner and get to see Big Bad Sony’s nice side.
aka for remoteplay
sony should better focus on a pc client
that can connect to remoteplay servers
for all its system with one client
sony remoteplay pc for psp psvita psvitatv ps3 ps4 etc
lol
Started working on a PC app could mean they’ve had a meeting to discuss a potential title. I’m also not sure what they could sue him over. The format is not a form of DRM. Sony would have to prove the app actually caused them to lose money. What are they going to claim, people aren’t buying Vita’s because someone released a PC app to stream the content? Even if that was the case, they just killed that defense by claiming they are planning on releasing their own software.
More than likely the streaming format is based on an existing format.
Yeah, they’ll just buy a license for the unofficial app and then reverse engineer it off Twisted’s work. Better yet, Sony: How about you do right for once and hire Twisted to make your application since apparently it took the work of an independent developer to get you to pull your heads out of your rears and provide functionality that your customers have been asking for for over a year. Also, guess what? You’re behind the power curve because Microsoft already baked this into Windows 10 OS for all Windows 10 devices and will be enabled (if not already) in a future Xbone update.