Emulating a DS4 wirelessly (i.e. playing PS4 games from the PC)

[NovHak-Linux]

I don’t know how much of a challenge it would represent, but instead of pairing the PC with a DS4 controller, how about having one’s PC acting as a DS4 controller via Bluetooth, and pairing with a PS4 console ? The idea being to play PS4 games on the PS4, with the PC’s keyboard and mouse, or another controller…

After all, you know what you should expect from a DS4, hence why not faking it instead ? I suspect there may be some form of authentication request from the console, ensuring the controller is genuine, or maybe a MAC address check, which would require a BT controller MAC address change, but is that impossible ?

I know there’s such a thing as remote play, but from what I’ve heared latency is terrible since it goes all the way to Sony and back to the console, hence not usable with more than a few games.

[Kanuan]

I know there’s such a thing as remote play, but from what I’ve heared latency is terrible since it goes all the way to Sony and back to the console, hence not usable with more than a few games

If your PC and console are on the same home network then it's streamed locally only

[NovHak-Linux]

That’s interesting, I thought it wasn’t. I will have to try this on my sister’s PS4, since I offered her a game she wasn’t able to play because her DS4 died for some mysterious and yet unexplained reason.

Of course if Remote Play is streamed locally, the idea of emulating a DS4 via Bluetooth (or even USB) loses some value, but still has the advantage of being an alternative that will still work should Sony decide to stop Remote Play.