Playstation "Suite", Android PS Store Announced

[Corris Veteran]

1:18AM He's now talking about portable gaming ? "a ubiquity of entertainment" is how Sony will expand its appeal. "No one in the industry could even imagine such a dramatic change taking place," Kaz says, talking about the original PSP. But he says that while people would once play games on a standalone gaming device, like the PSP, smartphones are changing that landscape and Sony, as a platform holder, needs to recognize that.

1:19AM "After 6 years, these multifunction devices are tehcnically ready for a PSP-like experience." "As a company that provides new forms to users, we also consider it our mission to help the content creators in this room find the answers."

1:21AM "Ladies and gentlemen, today we are announcing PlayStation Suite." Wow! PlayStation Suite brings PlayStation content to Android-based smartphones and tablets.

1:22AM But it's not just existing PlayStation content, "it will also provide a new mobile framework for the development of totally new content." But it's not just the Sony-developed Xperia Play ? Kaz says they'll be approving multiple devices to ensure a quality PlayStation experience. The platform will include "legacy games of PlayStation archives."

1:24AM "We will first emulate the first generation PSP titles to be available on PS Suite devices." So that's PSP1 games in, and we imagine PS1 games as well, in addition to PS Suite-exclusive games. Wonder if there's any chance of seeing PSP2 games on PS Suite ... oh yeah, PSP2 hasn't been announced yet. PS Suite is a "unique and secure environment for distributing content."

1:25AM "This new game framework is to attract as many new developers as possible... This is a hardware-agnostic game framework that simplifies content" creation.

1:26AM Also announced: The PlayStation Store for Android. Users can purchase games directly from their Android phones or tablets. Titles shown on stage include: Cool Boarders 2, Syphon Filter, Rally Cross, Wild Arms, and MediEvil ... waitaminute, those aren't PSP1 titles. Those are PlayStation titles.

Joystiq

bashcraft: At the time we revealed the PSP, cell phones were not capable of playing PSP level games

bashcraft: But that has changed

bashcraft: The question is, how do we deliver the PS experience and grow our business

bashcraft: Its our mission to help the content creators in this room

bashcraft: Today, we are announcing PlayStation Suite. It extends the PlayStation experience beyond. Its our first cross platform

bashcraft: PlayStation content for android

bashcraft: They are launching a new program, called "PlayStation Certified"

bashcraft: This is to ensure playstaiton quality across various devices

bashcraft: "This means users have a choice among preferred hardware"

bashcraft: It aims to emulate first gen PlayStation games

bashcraft: This is "hardware neutral game framework"

bashcraft: Its designed to attract as many devs as possible

bashcraft: "THis is a hardware agnostic game framework"

Kotaku

[Sikh]

Im "watching"/reading IGN's Live Blog.

PS Suite will be available "This Calendar Year". I see sony is following its usual "release" dates.

OH, Looks like PSP2 is about to be announced, or atleast the PSPhone.

[Lexcyn]

Playstation Store for ANDROID phones. OMG YES!!!!

[Sikh]

Anddddddddddddddddd, I believe the PSP2 has just been announced! Might be truly called the NGP(Next Generation Portable)

Quick Specs:

Front and Rear facing Camera with a mic

5" OLED Screen

Front and Rear Touch Pads

3G + Wifi, GPOS

Six Axis Motion Sensing

4x Resolution of the PSP

YUP, confirmed.

"10:34 Ryan Clements:

NGP will accept a new game medium, flash based.

10:34 Ryan Clements:

I think this is actually called the NGP. Wow.

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EDIT:

Released this holiday season for Japan. So expect it next year for everyone else i guess.

Ok, interesting tidbit

"10:36 Ryan Clements:

Graphical features are said to rival that of the PS3.

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I hope sony's not talking too far, for a handheld.

[Nick H. Supervisor]

PS Suite for Android? Awesome, I can't wait to see how this turns out.

[HawkMan]

But how will people install these in their phones, due to the rules of the android store, they can't offer it through that, so people will need to manually download and install it. then there's the issue of how it actually works. their original non android store that came with the xperia didn't allow you to redownload stuff you bought, so if you had to reformat or something, you needed to buy again.

[NeoTrunks]

But how will people install these in their phones, due to the rules of the android store, they can't offer it through that, so people will need to manually download and install it. then there's the issue of how it actually works. their original non android store that came with the xperia didn't allow you to redownload stuff you bought, so if you had to reformat or something, you needed to buy again.

I imagine it would be a separate app that you can download from the Android Marketplace or maybe just from a website (I don't have an Android, so I can't say for sure). You'll then most likely use your PSN credentials to login and buy the games. If that is the case, it would be nice if you could just freely download games that you've already paid for on the PSP or PS3.

[Unix2]

Any beta version to download ;)

[AbandonedTrolley]

More to the point, what's the minimum phone spec going to be to run these?

[Glassed Silver]

Sounds nice... But... L and R buttons on a touch screen?.... (talking PSP emu here...)

I guess this is profits-wise better than a PSP Phone, way better, but I'm still not really in there...

IMHO: smartphone = light gaming

handheld console = real gaming...

Glassed Silver:win

[HawkMan]

Sounds nice... But... L and R buttons on a touch screen?.... (talking PSP emu here...)

I guess this is profits-wise better than a PSP Phone, way better, but I'm still not really in there...

IMHO: smartphone = light gaming

handheld console = real gaming...

Glassed Silver:win

then again, the xperia play has all those button built in so that's a smartphone with real gaming then.

and no they can't, as I said, let you download it over marketplace, they'll run into the same wall as Kongregate, only a lot harder.

[Berserk87]

The whole playstation phone I don't really care about.

But sony bringing their games to the android market is HUGE.

[HawkMan]

The whole playstation phone I don't really care about.

But sony bringing their games to the android market is HUGE.

to bad they'll be virtually unplayable on anythign but the Xperia play though. no physical buttons. and you have to used the analogs sticks and the buttons and the dpad on the screen...

[Teebor]

to bad they'll be virtually unplayable on anythign but the Xperia play though. no physical buttons. and you have to used the analogs sticks and the buttons and the dpad on the screen...

Or pair up a bluetooth gaming device with it

And... In YOUR FACE DOUBTERS!! (see my post and its replies)

https://www.neowin.net/news/sonys-playstation-phone-shown-off-in-detail

[HawkMan]

that would be awfully complicated to use a BT controller on your cell phone...

either you're going to have to set down your phone on something and squint to see it in the difference, or you'll have one of those awfully flimsy universal holders, that attaches the phone to the controller device, and sort of holds it in pklace. except the whole thing is hueg

[Hedon]

Android only? Fail. How about the more popular iPhone?

[MarkusDarkus]

who cares about the iPhone?

[Hedon]

who cares about the iPhone?

Me.

[HawkMan]

Sony doesn't, besides this would never be allowed on the iPhone anyway.

Even on android this needs to be donwloaded manually, since google don't allow other app sotres on the app store. iPhone don't allow other app stores period.

[Hedon]

So that sucks :(

[soniqstylz]

More to the point, what's the minimum phone spec going to be to run these?

Most likely the specs needed to run Gingerbread.

Android only? Fail. How about the more popular iPhone?

In the US, Adroid has overtaken iOS.

[Hedon]

Most likely the specs needed to run Gingerbread.

In the US, Adroid has overtaken iOS.

I was talking worldwide. Has Android taken over?

[Bhav]

Android only? Fail. How about the more popular iPhone?

Perhaps it's something to do with Android's more open nature and Apple's dictatorship of an App Store? :)

[fusi0n]

Maybe?

[Hedon]

Perhaps it's something to do with Android's more open nature and Apple's dictatorship of an App Store? :)

Prolly :(. But it would be nice to have on the iPhone since that is what I have :)