PS Cross Play - Where Have You Been My Whole Life?!?!

Coolness at its best

The gaming world, at least those who really keep up with it, will be overflowing with news and excitement as E3 will be going on this week. I for one will be out of the country this coming week, and since there will be 1,000 other blogs and sites out there giving the news, I will sit back and absorb it all. But before I go, I wanted to shoot out this quick observance to you good readers.

I recently bought an interesting game by the name of Guacamelee. I'm not going to get too much into it other than it is quite fun and very challenging. But one thing that really caught my attention was that whenever you purchase the game you are allowed 2 PS3 console downloads and 2 Vita console downloads with Cross Play capability. I'm not one who will spend 60 bucks on the PS3 version then put out another 40 for the Vita so I can continue my baseball game (or whatever). For me, you either include the Vita version as part of the package or I'll skip out on the extra feature. Anyways, I digress.

Let me tell you, Cross Play delivered. All you have to do is upload your save game data to the cloud and once you get started on the other console, you're ready to continue your game. How awesome is that? I knew about this technology and didn't quite understand why someone would throw down 100 bucks for 2 versions of these games, but I can see that if you're one of those intense hardcore gamers with a really good paycheck, how that would be an extra perk.

The future is bright for the Vita especially with Sony requiring off TV play for their games on the upcoming PS4. I think that with the Wii U going with the tablet controller, that Sony was happy to know their consoles were capable of achieving the same thing.

I'll definitely be looking for other Cross Play options. There's nothing like being able to play a game on the TV then know that when you're on the go, or if you simply want to kick back in the bed and play, that you'll have absolutely no problem doing so. If you have a Vita and PS3, I would recommend you download Guacamelee and give it a try.