Sony Announces PlayStation Suite for PS Gaming on Android Devices

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Sony Announces PlayStation Suite for PS Gaming on Android Devices


At PlayStation Meeting 2011 in Tokyo, Japan, Sony's Kaz Hirai announced plans for PlayStation Suite. PS Suite is a hardware-neutral digital download service targeting Android-based devices that allows consumers to play PlayStation games via their Android smartphone or tablet.

To combat the differences between various Android devices, Sony will also launch PlayStation Certified, which will act as quality control "to ensure PS quality across various devices."

PlayStation Suite is scheduled to launch within the next calendar year (2012).

 

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Sony trying to compete with Xbox live...poor sony

 

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Hirai: PlayStation Suite Could be Google TV Killer App

During the PlayStation Meeting event that happened in Tokyo, Japan on January 27th, the NGP stole the show. But also announced during that event, was PlayStation Suite, service bringing PlayStation-quality games to Android smartphones. Shortly after the event, there was talk of PlayStation Suite extending to other platforms in the future, one of which could be Google TV.

Sony is hard at work intertwining their various business ventures, as evident by the upcoming Xperia PLAY, an Android-based Sony Ericsson smartphone with slide-out PlayStation controls. Aside from the smartphone market, Sony also has a robust television line-up with its Bravia series of 3D and HDTVs.

One of their most recent models, the Sony’s Internet TV combined Sony Bravia quality with Google TV. Sales have been a little lacklustre not just for Sony’s Internet TVs, but for Google TV in general. According to a recent interview with SCE Group CEO Kaz Hirai, they might just have a killer app in store for Google TV.

While speaking with Nikkei, Hirai spoke candidly about PlayStation Suite and the possibility of the service making its way to other platforms, including Google TV, which Hirai says could be the killer app that gets Google TV to really take off:

If the use of the “Sony Internet TV Powered by Google TV (Google TV)” spreads and its sales volume increases, we might provide the PSS to its users, too. Also, we might provide the PSS as a killer application to spread the use of the Google TV.

Details are scarce regarding the PlayStation Suite aside from revealing that PSOne titles would hit the service at some point. But if Sony sees PlayStation Suite as “killer app” worthy, then they likely have big plans of the service.

 

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Sony's PlayStation based Xperia PLAY smartphone officially announced

Sony has finally got around to making the PlayStation based Xperia PLAY smartphone completely official. Thanks to an announcement at Mobile World Congress, the company has said that the Xperia PLAY will mix together PlayStation quality gaming alongside the latest version of Android for handsets.

When used in portrait mode, the Xperia PLAY works just like any other Android phone, it sports a 5-megapixel camera and a full 4” multi-touch screen with a resolution of 480x854 pixels. All this changes once you slide out the gaming controls though, with a digital D pad, two analogue touch pads, two shoulder buttons, and the easily recognizable four PlayStation icon buttons.

While the Xperia PLAY comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHz processor, it is the new Adreno GPU that really helps push the screen to new levels, allowing what Sony say is 60fps playback for gaming and a far better browsing performance with lower battery consumption. The YouTube video below shows off the level of graphic capability that the Xperia PLAY can reach, though from first looks it does seem about the same level as any other Android based phone.




The Xperia PLAY becomes the first device to be “PlayStation Certified” meaning that it will have access to PlayStation content via the upcoming PlayStation suite, which is set to launch later in the year.

More good news for the device is that companies such as EA and Gameloft are already working on games for it, with Need for Speed, Sims 3, Splinter Cell and Assassin’s Creed titles on the way. The device also supports all of the games and applications that are already on the Android Marketplace right now, meaning you don't have to wait for specific Xperia PLAY content to come out.

The Xperia PLAY is set to launch sometime next month around the world.