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The Playstation Phone is Real [Up: Sony Ericsson Comments, Feb Announce Likely p.919]
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PhoncipleBone
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Already out there on the marketplace. At least as far as I know.asdad123 said:Does android have a good homebrew community (sort of like cydia/jailbreak). Itd be great to get emulators on there with the buttons!
Also, why is the back covered up in those pictures? Could it possible have that rear touch pad?
And that thing in the middle of the dpad and buttons sortof seems like some times of "dual analog thing" Maybe touch pad analogs or something?
Depending on the battery life and whether I can have emulators on it.
This will be my next phone.
Right now portable gaming is really only portable in the sense that I can play it anywhere in my house. I don't bring it outside my house except the car. I already have a Phone/Wallet/Keys to carry in my pocket. Not gonna carry 3X as big items like the PSP and DS.
This will actually make portable gaming truly portable for me.
This will be my next phone.
Right now portable gaming is really only portable in the sense that I can play it anywhere in my house. I don't bring it outside my house except the car. I already have a Phone/Wallet/Keys to carry in my pocket. Not gonna carry 3X as big items like the PSP and DS.
This will actually make portable gaming truly portable for me.
Operations
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If Stringer is serious about building synergies, then by all means, a common unified platform shouldn't be out of the question.Lonely1 said:
H_Prestige
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Blu_LED said:
This sounds a lot better than what the recent rumors for psp2. That device sounds positively hideous.
GameSeeker
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Smart move by Sony. It is very clear that the dedicated gaming portable will be a shrinking percentage of the market moving forward, with smart phones becoming very capable gaming systems. Dedicated gaming portables will still be perfect for kids, but if you are an adult professional who already carries around a smart phone for work or family, you don't want to carry a second device.
I own a Nintendo DS and a Sony PSP and I used to carry them on all my business trips, but now I own a iPhone 3GS and so both are relegated to the dustbin. I won't buy either the 3DS or PSP2, because the convenience of carrying around an iPhone 4/5 (rather than 2 devices) is too great. Microsoft recognizes this, as they are betting their entire mobile gaming strategy around Windows Mobile 7. Nintendo recognizes that Apple is a top competitor in the mobile gaming space. And now Sony is branching into smart phone gaming, along with a PSP2.
Smartphones are here to stay as a mobile gaming platform.
I own a Nintendo DS and a Sony PSP and I used to carry them on all my business trips, but now I own a iPhone 3GS and so both are relegated to the dustbin. I won't buy either the 3DS or PSP2, because the convenience of carrying around an iPhone 4/5 (rather than 2 devices) is too great. Microsoft recognizes this, as they are betting their entire mobile gaming strategy around Windows Mobile 7. Nintendo recognizes that Apple is a top competitor in the mobile gaming space. And now Sony is branching into smart phone gaming, along with a PSP2.
Smartphones are here to stay as a mobile gaming platform.
Graphics Horse
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Unless it actually is the PSP2 it will not be called the PSPanything, not sure why people are stuck on that idea.
Coloress_Kafka
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With SE already making phones under the Bravia, Cybershot, and Walkman brand names I guess it was just bound to happen.......
Although when they announced earlier this month they were making Windows 7 phones I thought it would be hilarious if this ran on Windows Phone 7. Finally XBL could have come to Playstation!
Although when they announced earlier this month they were making Windows 7 phones I thought it would be hilarious if this ran on Windows Phone 7. Finally XBL could have come to Playstation!
brain_stew
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Qualcomm GPU? Really? FFS.
With the middling GPU hardware, the huge overhead that comes with an Android device and the much higher target resolution, games are going to end up looking much worse than 3DS titles on average.
With the middling GPU hardware, the huge overhead that comes with an Android device and the much higher target resolution, games are going to end up looking much worse than 3DS titles on average.
metareferential
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x3sphere said:
What if it has a dual-boot OS?
Like, dedicated for gaming, and android for the rest.
And of course the user won't be able to choose, it's just automatic. And the android part cannot access all hardware features.
Isn't this how Linux and ps3 OS coexisted in first place?
Correct me if I'm horribly wrong.
Community Forum
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Just for shits and giggles, the non-contract price should be $599 USD.
The difference here being that Microsoft are putting WP7 and XBL on numberous handsets; Sony at the moment are just on this one. If Sony could make PlayStation the gaming brand for Android, and have all future Android handsets conform to certain specifications like WP7 does, then Sony could be in a very strong position in the handheld arena, as Android is clearly going to win out.GameSeeker said:
Just one Sony Ericsson phone is unlikely to really change the dynamics too much.
H_Prestige
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GameSeeker said:
Well said. First and foremost it will be a plenty capable Android smartphone. Then when you feel like playing ps1 games or emulators or whatever, you just slide out the controls and get to it.
Granted, this particular devise doesn't sound perfect to me (I think the specs are bit underpowered), but it is on the right track.
I'm interested, but I don't see it as a dedicated new gaming platform any more than other Android devices are. It's just that now Sony is releasing games for it, and adding in some better controls.
Also I think the problem with smartphones as gaming platforms, at least from a consumer perspective, is that you can only own one smartphone at a time, and usually with a one or two year contract. So it makes the choice between them tough and the market more limited than it could be.
But since you don't need contracts or service plans for regular dedicated portable gaming systems, you can easily own more than one (funds permitting).
Also I think the problem with smartphones as gaming platforms, at least from a consumer perspective, is that you can only own one smartphone at a time, and usually with a one or two year contract. So it makes the choice between them tough and the market more limited than it could be.
But since you don't need contracts or service plans for regular dedicated portable gaming systems, you can easily own more than one (funds permitting).
brain_stew
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blu said:
Even in their very own inhouse benchmark it can't beat out an SGX535, and it can barely match an SGX 530 in more general gaming benchmarks. They've had long enough to develop decent drivers for this architecture, I've seen nothing to indicate they ever will or that they would make enough of a difference anyway. Any Playstation branded product should have SGX 540 level performance at the very least.
looks like X10 Mini Pro with PSPGo controls instead of keyboard and considerably bigger screen. There is also SE branding which makes this not PSP2.
Seems like gaming phone from SE, which makes sense as their Walkman and Cybershot phones made them a lot of money before.
If it has big screen (like report suggests), seems like a much better option to game on than iphone4 and it still has everything it needs to be an great phone.
Seems like gaming phone from SE, which makes sense as their Walkman and Cybershot phones made them a lot of money before.
If it has big screen (like report suggests), seems like a much better option to game on than iphone4 and it still has everything it needs to be an great phone.
brain_stew
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blu said:
If its the same as the G2 (as indicated) then it'll be an Adreno 205. Its a huge stepup from the standard Adreno 200 but no where near enough for a gaming focused product that has to put up with a large abstraction layer.
Quadrangulum
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This is the only way I'll ever end with a smartphone.
brain_stew
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blu said:
:lol True, but come on, I'd at least have thought they'd be able to overcome their driver limitations in their own benchmarking software. Although this is Qualcomm, I'm probably expecting too much. Still, the Adreno/Z430 architecture is several years old at this point if they have been utterly inept at driver development in all that time, what's to say they're going to turn it around all of a sudden?
Even without the driver issue, I still don't think the hardware is fast enough. The CPU and RAM are fine but this device will be going up against phones SGX543MP2 based phones around the time of its release and no amount of driver optimisation will overcome that. I guess I just expect a device that is gaming to focused to actually choose an SOC that actually emphasises GPU performance, not one where it is completely secondary to CPU performance.