Doubt it. Smartphones are much more relevent in gaming now than they were in 2008 and 2009. 

Ericsson line.

Why do you hate Sony? 

Anyways, they have the coolest phone of them all!

That's a perfect example of why I hate Sony. They copy Nintendo (the DS) but replace the touchscreen with their latest media storage device. Looks like some sort of new cassette tape on this one.

Nintendo has phones? O_o

As far as I know Sony is the only company that has a smartphone with traditional gaming controls and dual touch analogs (Not "some sort of cassette tape", lol).

If anything it copies the design of the PSP Go. It doesn't copy Nintendo in the slightest.

Do you hate this?

It copies the Dual Shock in just about every single way.

How exactly does the Xperia Play copy the DS?

If anything, it copies the PSP Go.

..........which copied the SNES pad but added 2 analogs after stealing them from the N64.

We could go round in circles .............. no my mistake, we can't, it all goes back to Nintendo.

History

In 1982, Atari released their first controller with a potentiometer-based analog joystick for their Atari 5200 home console. However, the non-centering joystick design proved to be ungainly and unreliable, alienating many consumers at the time. During that same year, General Consumer Electronics introduced the Vectrex, a vector graphics based system which used a self-centering analog stick, a precursor to the modern design. For many years, consoles ignored analog technology, instead using the digital D-pad. It was not until the emergence of 3Dgameplay that the analog stick was brought back for widespread use.

In 1985, Sega's third-person rail shooter game Space Harrier, released for the arcades, introduced a true analog flight stick for movement. It could register movement in any direction as well as measure the degree of push, which could move the player character at different speeds depending on how far the joystick is pushed in a certain direction.[2]

On 26 April 1996,[3] Sony released a potentiometer-based analog joystick for use in Flight-Simulation games. The Sony Dual Analog FlightStick featured twin analog sticks and was used in games such as "Descent" to provide a much greater degree of freedom than the typical digital joysticks of the day.

Initially announced for release on April 21, 1996, Nintendo released their Nintendo 64 controller on June 24, 1996.[4] The new controller included a thumb-operated control stick which, while a digital stick[5] (the stick operated on the same principles as a mechanical computer mouse), still allowed for varying levels of movement and near-360-degree control, translating into far more precise movements than were possible with a D-pad.

On July 5, 1996, Sega released Nights into Dreams... for their Saturn console in Japan; bundled with it was the Saturn 3D control pad which featured an analog pad intended to give the player more fluid control over that game's flight-based gameplay. The controller would also serve as a basis for the Dreamcast controller.

On April 25, 1997,[3] Sony released a similar analog stick, based on the same potentiometer technology that was used in the larger Dual Analog Flightstick. The Sony Dual Analog controller featured rumble, three modes of analog (Flightstick, Full Analog and Analog-Off), and dual plastic concave thumbsticks, while Nintendo and Sega's controllers only had a single stick.

On November 20, 1997,[3] Sony released their third analog controller to the market: the DualShock. The controller featured similar twin analog sticks to the Dual Analog, although they featured convex rubber tips rather than concave plastic ones. Sony also removed the third analog (flightstick) mode and added two new buttons, L3 and R3, under the thumbsticks, which could be used by pressing down on the sticks.

In 1999, Sony's Ape Escape became the first major video game to require the use of two analog sticks.

In the console generations that followed, many video game console controllers have included two analog sticks, with the exception of the Dreamcast and Nintendo's non-classic Wiicontrollers. Other exceptions to this dual-stick rule are Sony's PlayStation Portable and Nintendo's 3DS handheld game consoles, which both feature only a single small flat analog stick. However, Sony's Next Generation Portable has been confirmed to have a dual analog stick configuration.

So what do you know, Sony did dual analog before Nintendo even did single analog! O_o

3DS is also clearly copying PSP with the analog nub.

Do Nintendo analogs allow you to push them in and act as buttons? If so then they copied Sony.

They did that first, just like they were first to introduce Dual analog.

That is true I suppose.

Notice how the 3DS has one single analogue "nub"?

Can I also just add something more?

How about a console that was designed to be used either Vertically or Horizontally? You know, like the PS2 had and the Wii has gone on to copy?

Also notice how the "Cafe" is going to be a HD console? Pretty sure Sony had that this generation (MS had it before them too)