PlayStation Phone preview

[Elvarg]

Why would you get the PSP phone? Its such a stupid idea. Why would you want to play games on your phone? They should have put a keyboard instead were they put the Playstation buttons... And plus its on Android which barely has any games to begin with.
It's a PSP Go with a phone combined. It will almost certainly play all psp games, not only android apps.
It's easier to carry your phone than your PSP and phone.
QUOTE(Elvarg @ Jan 27 2011, 12:58 AM) Why would they call it a phone its nothing like a phone it just looks like one.

It is a phone with the ability to play PSP games.

you can call people and text?

 

[BORTZ]

white iphone??? interesting.

 

[Neo_Ch!p]

The only good use in this is playing android emulators with physical keys = instant win for me.

 

[Terminator02]

you can call people and text?

Umm... Yeah, it's a phone

 

[cwstjdenobs]

Who cares, it's a Sony Ericsson. They have the shitiest build quality going. It might be the best phone in the world, but only for the 3 days all the buttons work

 

[Veho]

Why would you get the PSP phone? Its such a stupid idea. Why would you want to play games on your phone? They should have put a keyboard instead were they put the Playstation buttons...

They already have a few versions with keyboards This one is for games.


The phone's official name is the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play.

As for what games it will play...

QUOTESony's plan for mobile PlayStation gaming goes much further than just the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play - the newly announced PlayStation Suite platform will deliver PlayStation games on a variety of Android-based devices and plans include a dedicated game store too.

To kick-start the whole thing, Sony will be launching a PlayStation One emulator (not a PSP emulator as originally thought), which will allow Android devices to play games for the original PS console. Original titles will be developed too - the first should come out as early as this year.

Third-party developers will get to use of Sony's game development environment, which will ensure that a game will work on the whole range of devices - Android smartphones and tablets (Android 2.3+ is required though) and also the next generation PSP 2.

For devices that don't have the necessary hardware game controls (like the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play does), the development environment will provide touchscreen controls instead.

A PlayStation Store will open too, allowing game purchases right from the device. There's no info on the expected game prices though. Third-party manufacturers can get their devices PlayStation Certified, which is Sony's way of ensuring a quality experience.

There's no official list of compatible devices - one can imagine the XPERIA Play and Arc will be on it, but devices without PlayStation Certified credentials may be excluded from the game galore.

Source.