I don't know if this is a good move for Sony.
If PSP2 runs Android, it means games will be easy as hell to port to other Android-based mobile devices. So the pressure will be to design games to run on both the PSP2 and about a billion different smartphone SKUs. HTC, Samsung, Motorola, et al. would effectively be manufacturing PSPs.
Sony could still drive PSP2 sales with their 1st party software... but part of me wonders if they wouldn't be better off selling games on the Android marketplace themselves, using the Android install base to rack up software sales while positioning the PSP2 as 'the gamer's Android device' — basically the Android equivalent of the iPod Touch.
There are some risks here. It could pay off big, or it could wipe out Sony's margins on both software and hardware and Google laughs while Sony helps them drive the Android platform.
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