PS Vita Will Act As PS3 Controller

It seems that the upcoming PlayStation Vita will be usable as a PS3 controller.

"What could you do with all of this?" a Sony R&D exec asked journalists recently "Here's a few boring technical ideas: you could drive a display from a PS3 game, for example.

PS3 can send data down to Vita and Vita can display it. You could use the unique features [of Vita] - gyroscope, touch front and back - as a control device for a PS3 game.

"You can run software on both devices and use the network to sync the game states. And that's pretty good, because you then have the processing power of PS3 doing that work, Vita [doing] fancy graphics - however you want to do it. You're not sacrificing the PS3's CPU to be able to have a rich experience on Vita."

Nintendo has announced similar intentions with the 3Ds and upcoming Wii U, and it's unclear if Sony took its cue from its rival.

The Vita is due out early next year, though there have been recent indications that the console might hit stores around October.