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Re: The PlayStation Phone

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Post by charlief »

fletchowns wrote: post #3
sandipc wrote: post #2

Android emulator development should pick up real fast after this is released...

Funny how we make all this progress and pack a ridiculous amount of processing power in a handheld device, only to then put in a bunch of extra effort just so we can play Super Mario World on yet another device.

Maybe it is the game being good, maybe it is just nostalgia,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_game...

With 240 million sales, there's probably a little Mario in each of us. New releases and/or perpetual emulation of Mario games is the one constant we can expect to find in future generations of devices with new and old generations of people alike grabbing coins and jumping on Koopa shells.

Re: The PlayStation Phone

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Post by acgourley »

pedanticfreak wrote: post #10

Hopefully the Playstation team is able to finally give a good skin to Android. I would say I have faith in Sony making buckets of money selling emulated Playstation games, but the PS3 Store has been a disaster. They had every opportunity to have an App Store before there was an App Store, but they blew it. And still continue to blow it.

The PS3 has demonstrated that Sony knows hardware, but it does not know software.

The xbox has demonstrated the opposite.

Re: The PlayStation Phone

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Post by ESchmidtSeesYou »

pedanticfreak wrote: post #10

Hopefully the Playstation team is able to finally give a good skin to Android. I would say I have faith in Sony making buckets of money selling emulated Playstation games, but the PS3 Store has been a disaster. They had every opportunity to have an App Store before there was an App Store, but they blew it. And still continue to blow it.

I just wonder why they put out that joke of a controller for Google TV, when they could have made a PS Move-like controller with a slide-out keyboard or similar.

Re: The PlayStation Phone

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Post by mattezell »

Interesting arena for the Android to get to venture into. Makes sense, really... Just another means to get the OS out there... With Android phones and tablet/netbooks appearing everywhere, it is neat to see the Android platform showing up in yet another sector of the electronics market - gaming platforms. Nothing new for Java, granted, but still a hell of a feat in such a "short time" operating under the Android/Google brand. Seems like the market for Android devs is growing by leaps and bounds... Before long there will be a Android powered portable bluetooth/HDMI/netbookish portable-game-consoles appearing in the market - running Android, of course...

Re: The PlayStation Phone

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Post by pkaler »

pedanticfreak wrote: post #10

Hopefully the Playstation team is able to finally give a good skin to Android. I would say I have faith in Sony making buckets of money selling emulated Playstation games, but the PS3 Store has been a disaster. They had every opportunity to have an App Store before there was an App Store, but they blew it. And still continue to blow it.

I believe the phone is made by Sony Ericsson and not Sony Computer Entertainment. It looks like it just had the PlayStation name slapped on a phone with a D-Pad.

Re: The PlayStation Phone

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Post by zarify »

I find it quite encouraging to see this really. I think one of the flaws of mobile gaming on things like the iPhone is that the touchscreen is a really terrible way of interacting with many control schemes, both because of the lack of tactile response and the fact that your fingers invariably get in the way of the UI.

The fact that it's running Android is a big plus considering Sony's penchant for running with their own tech (either hardware or software) and either noone else adopting it or discouraging from others adopting it.

Re: The PlayStation Phone

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Post by Groxx »

>For Sony buffs, you'll be interested to know that there's no Memory Stick slot here, but there is support for microSD cards.

I... I think I'm going to cry... I never thought I'd live to see the day Sony gave up on their #*@^ing memory sticks...

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