Playstation Phone

I don't think you guys see the point of this: the idea isn't to create a PSP with a phone tacked on, or a PSP with a phone tacked on. The idea is to take an ordinary Android phone and tell 3rd party developers: "make games for THIS!" The problem with Android for game developers is that there's so many different handsets with so many different CPUs, running so many different versions of the OS. That's the reason it hasn't overtaken iOS as a mobile gaming platform yet. In taking a smartphone and branding it a "PSP-phone", Sony won't be trying to make something faster or more powerful than HTC's or Samsung's or Motorolla's top smartphone offerings. They'll probably just create their own marketplace in which games that have been developed for and certified to work with that phone will be sold. They're trying to create a standard, a phone for devs and gamers to flock to knowing that whatever is designed for it is guaranteed to work properly. Now, that doesn't mean they wouldn't work on other phones (although Sony might impose some publishing controls, asking devs to not put them on the Android marketplace), it just means they're guaranteed to work on Sony's phone!
It's not about the hardware, it's about the platform.
 
Well you can get ps1 emulator for android but it only works perfect on high end androids...my mate got pretty far through abes oddesy and resident evil 3 other day on my phone, when we was stuck on A1. Brilliant little app and the ps1 game searcher is brilliant to with 100's of working games. Both together come in at about £5 on android market.

Impressed me anyway lol
 
Surprised they let them sell it on the market! I'm sure it violates some obscure clause of the DMCA... Or is it Sony themselves who are selling it?
 
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