Looks like Sony Ericsson are lifting the game with their smartphones. The XPERIA Play will come with an online Sony store to download and play PlayStation One games which seems a little behind the game however it seems to have potential. With the Nokia N-gage, perhaps being a little before it’s time and being a major failure, this just might be the device to revamp the mobile gaming industry. At launch, the PlayStation store will have 50 games optimised for the device.
The device is slightly smaller than a PSP and it appears that a lot of time has been spent ensuring the device is comfortable to use from a gaming and but perhaps not so much from a phone perspective. To quote GSM arena’s review, they’ve commented that “when you hold it landscape with both hands, it fits like a glove but otherwise it’s quite big to handle.”
The gaming controller is modelled on the PSP and PlayStation controller so will be familiar to most Sony product gamers. The gingerbread Android OS should be extremely stable but I’m a little confused as to why the device does not contain a dual core processor. My other worry with the device would be the battery life. For users travelling over an hour playing games on buses or trains, let’s hope they don’t have to recharge the phone every few hours.
Let’s see if this device kicks off the future in mobile gaming and is the start of much greater things to come. The success of Angry Birds certainly shows there is a large market for mobile gaming and this device could be the first of many to increase mobile phone gaming capabilities.
For more information on the device, see;
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_xperia_play-review-591.php
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