Playstation games coming to Android phones

[Metal Militia]

http://kotaku.com/5744509/playstation-g ... oid-phones

At it's big PlayStation event held today in Tokyo, Sony has revealed a program whereby "certified" PlayStation games will be made available for mobile phones.

Rather than be tied to a single device, like we've been seeing all along, Sony is calling this idea "PlayStation Suite", a mobile gaming platform of sorts designed for Android mobile phones.

With games bearing a "PlayStation Certified" tag, it aims to bring titles like original PS1 games (or their equivalent, we suppose?) to mobiles in a "hardware neutral game framework".

Among the first PS1 games to launch on the service will be Wild Arms, Cool Boarders 2, Rally cross, Medievil and Syphon Filter.

We'll get you more details - including what role the "PlayStation Phone" plays in all this - as they come to hand.

[lisalover1]

Finally, something big that Android users can hold over iOS users' heads in the gaming realm!

[aaron]

oh FUCK YES, i am going to play the SHIT out of some COOL BOARDERS 2.

i am SO serious.

[darkreaper]

Hopefully a great bluetooth device will launch as well. Love my galaxy s and psx emulation, but not with touch controls, using a modded snes joypad with bluetooth.

[ZeroAX]

Finally, something big that Android users can hold over iOS users' heads in the gaming realm!

Well...legally perhaps, but wasn't there already a PS1 emulator for android? I have trouble playing any NES game, and the only GBA game I can play with the touch screen is Advance Wars. How will they fit the 14 freaking buttons of the PS1 controller on a touch screen?

[hashiriya1]

Just saw the Xperia Play commercial. That is so mine. Goodbye POS iPhone....I'll still use you as an iPod at the gym.

[Ivo]

Just saw the Xperia Play commercial. That is so mine. Goodbye POS iPhone....I'll still use you as an iPod at the gym.

Now *that* looks like a mobile phone I would want to have (I have been tempted by the Nokia N81, but it did not quite fit the bill)...

As it is Android OS, I imagine it would be rather easy to get emulators running on it?

Ivo.

[Xtincthed]

really looking forward to this!