Android Apps: At Game Developers Conference 2011 in San Francisco this week, I got a chance to sit down and spend a few minutes messing around with the Xperia Play, which included sampling a couple of its games and testing out its slide-out gamepad.
"I talk about the 5 weirdest Sony PlayStation devices. From weird business choices, to just weird in general! What devices from Sony do you think are the weirdest? Do you agree with us?" -- PlayStation Enthusiast
I think the PSP was weird in itself. I mean the tech was cool and all with the UmD, but Sony often pushes its own media with their consoles and doesn't always find success. The memory stick duo was and is expensive as hell.
I agree. What a weird idea lol. Seems like they were mainly just trying to be unique.
It's not always the device that's the weird part. Could also be the timing (PSP Go) and the lack of marketing (PSTV). Makes you really wonder what was the point of following through with releasing these things. Xperia phone could have been something special, then Sony didn't fully support it. WHY!? lol. Just weird.
Wonderbook is weird, but that easy platinum though!
I used to own a psp..first 1000 then 2000 then 3000 then after that I had a psp go and then I finally got a ps vita brand new..then lost that and the later in the year or month got a new used version of the Vita...so the journey has been really out there for me for the systems I used to own..all of them were great in there own special way..
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For anyone using iOS, I suggest you try the stock android experience offered with the nexus 4. I used to prefer iOS but android has more customization and very recently competitive build quality.
Im also not a fan of virtual controls. The only game I play on my evo is Angry Birds. If I was a mobile phone gamer this would be perfect but ill be waiting for the PSP2...
After playing it at GDC, I have to say I was impressed. But I still don't know how well it's going to do.
The games control and look better on the device then they do in previous videos. Framerates are solid, and everything look good.
The problem I have is that, it's not revolutionary enough to make people drop their iPhone and switch over to Verzion (who also has the iPhone 4 now, as well as their Galaxy phone, and the Droid 2, as well as tablets like the Droid tablet, and iPad 2).
There's too much competition on Verizon, and it was a bad move to limit the device only to that service, when the competition is that strong. The phone part of the Xperia play is on par with all those phones, so the only selling point it has is being one of the first devices to run Android 2.3, and have PlayStation games, but again is that enough to make people drop their current smartphone, and from my experience "NO".
It's a great device, but they should have made it available on all carriers if they wanted it to succeed, because it's going to have a hard time being exclusive to Verizon.