It’s no secret that there’s a PlayStation Phone – now referred to as the XPERIA Play – in the pipeline. What remained a mystery though, up until yesterday, was how would one play PlayStation games on it. Well, here’s the answer: the PlayStation Suite.
The PlayStation Suite is Sony’s latest innovation, which aims to bring the whole PlayStation experience to the Android world. It comes with a PSOne game emulator and a PlayStation Store for your game downloading pleasure. PSOne games? Boo. We share the same sentiment, but on a good note though, this new game store will also be open to new developers so you can expect new games to be offered up here as well.
When this will officially roll out to the public and how much the apps wil cost is still a mystery. What we do know, however, is that there will be a QA process for all aspiring apps called PlayStation Certified. Think of this as the Sony counterpart to Apple’s App Store approval process.
Will this be limited to the XPERIA Play only? We doubt it. In fact, they’ve made necessary provisions here to accommodate those Android handsets without dedicated hardware game control buttons such as the ones found on the still-unofficial PlayStation Phone.
So what other Android phones will this work on? We still don’t know, but they’ve already stated that Android 2.3 is a must here. The XPERIA arc will most likely be supported, and more will probably be announced at the upcoming Mobile World Congress next month.
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