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Rainbird on 08 December 2011
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superchunk said:
Rainbird said:
superchunk said:

My point was that Android will now not only match iOS gaming library but expand beyond it with PSuite.

Which is relative. As I pointed out, having an Android phone is not enough, as you need a PlayStation Certified device, and Sony haven't promised to make any games themselves for the service/kit/store/whatever yet.

They might, but almost a year after they announced the Suite, they have released only a few PS1 games with no original content announced from them. And that's with the Vita getting close to its launch.

Make of that what you will.

I still couldn't see Sony creating this viable market on such a large market to not see this as a bridge platform and add smaller scope first party titles with the specific purpose to drive later Sony Hardware sales. It just makes too much sense and something I surmised when Sony first mentioned their Play phone and usage of Android (prior to Vita's announcement).

It seems to me that they will continue to merge Android and Playstation and utlize the massive phone/tablet market to distribute additional software. Maybe certain titles will remain on Sony hardware only (including Sony tablets/phones) but, I think there will be some on all Android phones.

As for needing to be a Playstation Certified device, I think that has more to do with Android versions, CPU/GPUs etc, than anything else. Like only Tegra based products or something.

I guess this next year will be the proof in the pudding.

Yeah, the certificate might be more of a guarantee that it will play nice with the PS Suite games, I can't really remember now that you mention it.

But still, Sony hasn't exactly been pumping out content for the Xperia Play yet.