While the Xperia PLAY did suffer various launch problems, from a “freight issue” to a mobile providerpulling out from the launch due to bugs, the platform’s biggest publisher, Gameloft, has announced that the phone is “already a top device” in terms of game sales, beating out tough competition from other Android phones.

In an extensive interview with PlayStation LifeStyle, Julian Stocker, Managing Director for Gameloft revealed:

From what we’ve seen already over this weekend – the sales are very good.

In the very first weekend its already a top device for us in terms of number of games being sold, which is pretty amazing actually, because that means it must have sold in a reasonable number already over the weekend.

He added that the launch difficulties don’t seem to have harmed the sales:

Looking at the sales we’ve seen, I don’t think there’s any problem; it has actually overtaken pretty much all the other Android devices already.

Stay tuned to PlayStation LifeStyle for the full interview later today.

I wish my AT&T contract would expire so I get this phone when it hits Verizon.

Sounds good!  I'm glad the launch went ok.

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If they get the software right in the longrun, the Play brand could become the biggest from the SE family. The Walkman and Cybershot brands fared well to, but this could become even bigger

and if Xperia PLAY really sell very well in worldwide, i believe we will gonna see lots of similar phone coming out next, cause this is how mobile phone market is... xD

Misleading title. It is not the best performing, but definitely amongst the top. Interesting to see how it develps for other big game publishers in the smartphone space. Xperia obviously has a huge leg-up in that department. Definitely going to be a platform to optimize for has gamers will gravitate towards it for the better control options, and then the sales will beome disproportionally for the number of phones sold.