PlayStation 4 (PS4) owners who know the struggle of having to share a TV with other people are no stranger to Sony’s Remote Play feature. First featured on the PS Vita, the service allows PS4 owners to stream their favorite game directly to the handheld console, or an Xperia Z3 or an Xperia Z5 Series smartphones (via the pre-installed Remote Play app).
But what if you don’t have a PS Vita, or an Xperia smartphone for that matter? What if you want to stream your PS4 game directly to your PC?
Thanks to an app developer who goes by the name of Twisted (obviously, not his real name), you can actually do just that through his app, Remote PC Play. To keep a long story short: the app basically tricks the PS4 into thinking that your PC is a recognizable remote play device, and thus allows gamers to stream their PS4 games directly to the PC.
If you’re interested in owning the app, we should probably point out a couple of things before you do so.
First of all, the app itself is not an official app from Sony, and neither has it been endorsed by the Japanese corporation themselves. Unlike Microsoft’s Xbox One, Sony does not officially support streaming of PS4 games and content to the PC.
Second: in order for you to use the app, you’ll actually have to pay around US$10 (approx. RM42) for it. Why so much for the app, you ask? Well, according to Twisted’s blog:
“I’d like to work on this project full time, adding features, getting it stable and porting it to other platforms which I know a lot of you want! The only way to support this is to charge for the app, all my previous projects have been free and I don’t want to have to but sadly it’s the only way to support my living costs.”
Considering that most apps on the Android (and Windows) store costs about the same (if not more), we can only surmise that this is only fair, considering the amount of work that the man is putting into an app that isn’t even an official part of Sony’s product range.
At the time of writing, the app has yet to be released. Again, interested parties can keep track of Twisted’s progress on the app via his blog. In the meantime, you can see Twisted’s work on the in the video below.
