Sony has revealed that it is possible to use the as a controller on for the PlayStation 3.

Speaking at the Develop Conference in Brighton, Europe's R and D manager Phil Rogers explained a little bit more about the kind of things that the PS Vita is capable of.

He said: "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 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."

He added on the other features: "At launch we're going to have some features that work across both platforms. You could access data on each side and access scoreboards, for example. We're building on that. Obviously we had to bring certain things on and make sure that servers work against all the features and it doesn't break the PS3 experience, because there's a lot of PS3 users. For launch we'll also have Remote Play, which does look good on Vita - I saw an early version of it running recently."

Thanks Eurogamer.

By Ewan Aiton