{"id":52701,"date":"2013-04-11T12:15:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T10:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=52701"},"modified":"2013-04-11T12:31:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T10:31:18","slug":"sonys-dualshock-3-can-pair-with-xperia-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/52701-sonys-dualshock-3-can-pair-with-xperia-smartphone","title":{"rendered":"Sony&#8217;s Dualshock 3 can pair with Xperia Smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s last attempt at bringing the Playstation experience to the mobile phone resulted in the beautiful but much-maligned Xperia Play.<\/p>\n<p>While it worked well and had a good range of retro titles to choose from, it was only one piece of the Xperia lineup and in reality, it was far cheaper to get a PSP instead. It seems that they&#8217;re now planning to bring back that functionality to Xperia, but this time by allowing tethering with the Dualshock 3.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52704\" alt=\"DualShock-3-Xperia-support_8-640x360\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DualShock-3-Xperia-support_8-640x360-600x337.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DualShock-3-Xperia-support_8-640x360-600x337.png 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DualShock-3-Xperia-support_8-640x360-267x150.png 267w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DualShock-3-Xperia-support_8-640x360-625x350.png 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DualShock-3-Xperia-support_8-640x360.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The original story appeared on the Xperia Blog where a Sony engineer demonstrated the tethering option, how the pairing functions worked and how well the phone handled translating the input from the controller via Bluetooth. There doesn&#8217;t appear to be any lag and gameplay on the phone (which was a Sony Xperia SP) seems flawless. Its like playing on a really small PS2.<\/p>\n<p>You need to pair the controller to the phone using a USB cable and then you navigate into the settings menu to pair up the controller and register it with the phone. Its worth noting that once you do this you&#8217;ll need to re-pair it to your PS3 because the limited memory inside the controller can only save profiles for a single device.<\/p>\n<p>This is also not a new development in the Xperia family, because Sony was showing the same idea off at local launch of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tech2.in.com\/news\/smartphones\/sony-xperia-z-to-hit-indian-stores-on-march-12-for-rs-38990\/806752\" target=\"_blank\">Xperia Z and ZL<\/a> in India earlier in April 2013. <a href=\"http:\/\/tech2.in.com\/features\/tablets\/first-impressions-sony-xperia-tablet-z\/812112\" target=\"_blank\">Tech2&#8217;s impressions<\/a> of the tablet were positive and this is a good step for the Xperia family.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2013-04-10-sony-adds-dualshock-3-support-to-android-xperia-devices\" target=\"_blank\">GamesIndustry.biz<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Gadget News<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/52646-ouya-reviews-give-mixed-response-to-99-game-console.html\">Ouya reviews give mixed response to $99 game console<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/52641-sony-4k-55-and-65-inch-4k-tv-prices-revealed.html\">Sony 4K 55-inch and 65-inch 4K TV prices revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/52406-virtual-reality-makes-a-comeback.html\">Virtual reality makes a comeback<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s Xperia family will soon support Dualshock 3 tethering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":52731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[31,71,9547],"class_list":["post-52701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-sony","tag-xperia-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52734,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52701\/revisions\/52734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}