Those who (still) have the small handheld gaming gadget made by Sony and released in Japan in December 2011 (the rest of the world in February 2012): the PlayStation Vita and who still use it in remote play mode, can give it up for Ghost of Tsushima.

Nowadays, in terms of supporting the PlayStation Vita, it has become a neglected handheld device by Sony, no longer manufactured by the Japanese company, nor supported at all either by Sony or other publishers. Too bad because in its time, this was a gaming device with great technical advantages and lots of innovative solutions, for which very exclusive Sony exclusive titles appeared at first, it was a huge favourite among the fans.

Nowadays, however, the PlayStation Vita is dead, much more so than any other (even much older) PlayStation consoles, considering what sales it generated and how much the rival Nintendo Switch, – which saw the light in 2017 – dominates the market by now.

However, to this day, the PS Vita has a feature that works quite well, whether at home or on the go, with wifi: remote play. With this feature, you can turn on your PlayStation 4 (Pro) remotely and run games by streaming it remotely over a Wi-Fi network (wherever you are: at home or on the go, in the city). This feature is not “outdated” at all (unlike Vita’s software support) and also works well with modern, recently released games. We recently tested, for example, how enjoyable The Last of Us Part II can be played in remote play mode, PS Vita.

Since Ghost of Tsushima came out at midnight today, I thought I’d also try this game on how to play in remote play mode, PS Vita. I have to quickly add that with the Sony exclusive titles I tried this way, I never had any major problems. What used to be a problem is that when “configuring” the buttons, due to some stupid idea, the right lower trigger (R2) was matched by “pressing” the right side of the rear touchpad during remote play, which is extremely unreliable or inconvenient, even though use.

In the case of Ghost of Tsushima, this is compounded by the fact that not only does this game use the same system, and it can’t be reconfigured (unlike the previous Sony exclusive, The Last of Us Part II), but in addition to this game for some reason it is completely unusable on the rear touchpad in remote play mode (not just simply inconvenient to use) so the game’s extremely widely used interaction button can’t be pressed at all. Because of this in particular, Ghost of Tsushima’s remote play feature simply doesn’t work, which is more than weird for a Sony exclusive title. What a shame!