By now, it's safe to call the long-rumored PlayStation Phone one of the worst-kept secrets in the history of the tech/gaming world. Engadget posted photos of the Android-powered device three months ago, and since then, we've seen video of the phone to further confirm its existence. It's reportedly called the "Xperia Play," and Engadget has now published a comprehensive preview based on a prototype that has been "floating around in China."
The Xperia Play is equipped with a 4-inch, 854×480-pixel LCD screen, and under the hood, it contains a 1 GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM. Pushing the screen upwards from a horizontal position reveals the PlayStation D-pad and face buttons; Start, Select, and Menu buttons; and that strange oval touchpad (without any native games to try, Engadget was unable to test the functionality of the pad). According to Engadget, the device is "less well balanced than the bottom-heavy" PSPgo, although its build is reportedly of higher quality than Sony's UMD-free handheld.
Engadget also noticed the same PlayStation Pocket app that we've seen before; it looks like a library to hold your digital games. As for actually playing games on the prototype, they downloaded a PlayStation emulator and a Game Boy Advance emulator, and as you can see in the video above, they loaded up four games -- Ridge Racer Revolution (PS1), Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (PS1), Gundam Battle Assault 2 (PS1), and Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 (GBA) -- all of which ran pretty well. Real buttons instead of virtual touch-screen "buttons" sure are nice for gaming, aren't they?
Sony is expected to officially unveil the Xperia Play next month. Are you interested yet? If you are, check out the full in-depth preview over at Engadget.
So far this is just a glorified PSPGo (which sucks) that plays PSone games worse, and has the added benefit of being on whatever shitty network this will inevitably end up on, I'm looking at you T-Mobile/AT&T... Honestly, I'm better off keeping my PSP, and paying the same amount for a DroidX2 or Droid3 with better specs. Or hell why wait for one of those when I could pick up a 4G Thunderbolt right now... Pachter may have jumped the gun calling out the PSP2 as dead on arrival, but this thing certainly is.
Pretty cool, I already have my 3DS on reserve though.
Still cool that you basically can have the ultimate virtual console on it with gba, nes, snes, gb/gbc, PSX!, ect, all free and on the go while you'll probably have to pay like $5 for just Super Mario Land on the 3DS :/ One of the main reasons I even bought the original PSP.
@rampart...patcher wrong never, you must be out of ur mind to think. Geez don't u know gta 5 came out last lastor was it the year before that, no wait its coming out this yedar
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I just said Pachter was wrong... or are you being sarcastic? I don't get the statement.
All I'm saying is this thing looks lame. And not worth the money, whatever it costs. For Sony's sake I hope these are specs off of a prototype or something.
If this is just a new xperia model, why all these bloody stories about it? I've got almost identical X10 sitting next to me (minus the buttons, of course), so why the all the fuss?
It's a Droid phone with buttons. What is hard to understand? I think the design is kind of nifty, but I won't pick this up until I read some reviews of the finished product. Xperia phones haven't been the best, but Engadget makes his sound like quite an improvement. I'm eager to hear if it adds any special gaming options, or what Sony games it ends up playing, but we likely won't get that information until it's officially announced. If everything checks out, I'll consider this the next time I upgrade my phone, for sure.
Those emulators are no big deal. You can buy them from the Android Market for like $5, if that. I have the GB(C), GBA, NES, and SNES emulators on my Nexus One. They've been in the Android market for well over a year now too I think. Well minus the PSX emulator which is somewhat newer.
While I question the decision for a PSP Phone with the Xperia Play, I definitely see a market for it with those who play emulators on their phones. I had NES, SNES and Genesis emulators on my myTouch 3G Slide and used the keyboard to simulate the controller. Having an honest D-Pad and controller layout would be fan-freaking-tastic and, depending on the carrier, would definitely grab my attention.
anyone who is serious about emulation on android needs those buttons. trying to play a PSX emulator on a touch screen is for the most part a pathetic joke.
i still have no idea what content sony plans to put out for this phone (if any).
I really want to get the PlayStation phone but sony is keeping quite with this one. They are to release the PlayStation Suite App for Android devices later this hear. You can read about it here: goo.gl/tH7F4
I get a free phone every year to persude me to stay with my provider (or a new provider will give me one anyway) so if this is available when my contract is up I may well look at getting one of these.
I might also buy myself a PSP2 too, you know, for gaming.
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