Sony’s PS3 has what’s called a “Remote Play” feature, which will allow you to use a PSP to access via a wireless connection photos, videos, music, and other files that you have saved on your PS3 or external flash drives and optical media attached to the PS3 (note that this won’t work on the old 20GB PS3 because it doesn’t have WiFi).
Regrettably, Sony does not supply any actual documentation or instructions on how to go about doing this and hooking both to each other isn’t exactly user friendly. Here’s what to do:
Also, you might be interested in this thread over at the official PS3 forums that contains a constantly updated list of games that do and don’t work with
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remote play. Also, you need to make sure that you’ve got the latest firmware updates for both the PSP and the PS3, as the few people on the forums who have been experiencing trouble setting up remote play usually then find out it was caused by needing a firmware update for either their PS3 or PSP or both. |
Also, there’s a number of other things besides playing games that you can do with remote play, including:
- Message all of your PSN friends from your PS3’s buddy list.
- If you start a new chat just by yourself, the PLAYSTATION Eye adds security camera functionality so you can check out your room, plus you can now hear sound (listen in) via remote play video chat.
- Access media streamed from your computer–this includes live TV streamed to your PSP if you have the right gear.
- Download and install demos remotely from your PSP from the Playstation store–you can add funds to your wallet and purchase full games and downloadable content as well.
- Browse the web.