January 27th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »
With the Xperia Play presumingly seeing daylight during the Mobile World Congress next month, Sony has announced a new service that could act as the followup to the current PSP Mini’s program.
The new app store is called Playstation Suite and will for now mainly consist of a psOne emulator. It also marks porting psOne titles to Android as a first priority to the company as that will bring Sony two major benefits. One, they make money from their back catalogue and they will have a huge amount of high-quality titles for Android gamers in a channel they control themselves.
For Android phones that do not support the proper hardware buttons for a Playstation experience (another hint toward the Xperia Play), the emulator will put them on-screen which sounds a bit cruel to us.
The Playstation Suite will be a full development framework, allowing developers to also bring new titles onto the new App Store. To warrant quality, Sony does launch the Playstation Certified program. Though Playstation Suite software will also work on the NGP the company just announced, it calls the platform framework independent. We would not be surprised to see an iOS and Windows Phone 7 version popping up as well.
