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on: February 16, 2011, 01:14:19 AM

The Xperia Play, incorporating features from the Sony PSP and using the Android platform.

Sony Ericsson better have a very good answer to the question, "Why would we buy this when we can play mobile games on our current Android phones?".

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Reply #1 on: February 16, 2011, 12:17:16 PM

The Xperia Play, incorporating features from the Sony PSP and using the Android platform.

Sony Ericsson better have a very good answer to the question, "Why would we buy this when we can play mobile games on our current Android phones?".

You can be sure it'll run their games, which will be real games, unlike most of the crap floating around the Android market.
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Reply #2 on: February 16, 2011, 01:40:22 PM

I've not seen a ton of earth-shattering games from the PSP library yet. 
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Reply #3 on: February 16, 2011, 01:53:43 PM

Or, for short, the SEXPlay.

But that Captain's salami tray was tight, yo. You plump for the roast pork loin, dogg?

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Reply #4 on: February 17, 2011, 05:19:16 AM

The Xperia Play, incorporating features from the Sony PSP and using the Android platform.

Sony Ericsson better have a very good answer to the question, "Why would we buy this when we can play mobile games on our current Android phones?".

Because playing games on a touch screen has a lot of issues, and no physical keyboards out for android are that good for game playing...
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Reply #5 on: February 19, 2011, 11:54:00 AM

The Xperia Play, incorporating features from the Sony PSP and using the Android platform.

Sony Ericsson better have a very good answer to the question, "Why would we buy this when we can play mobile games on our current Android phones?".

Having been involved in this one a little bit, I can safely say that even if their eventual catalog is not stunning, having gamepad controls makes this an excellent phone for emulators like snesoid. ^^

I think the draw here is having "real" controls, which for some types of games just work a lot better than emulating controls with slick touchscreen displays -- which require you to obscure the content your interacting with with your hands and on-screen smudges.
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Reply #6 on: February 19, 2011, 01:25:23 PM

Amazon.de is showing this at 599€. Ridiculous.
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Reply #7 on: February 19, 2011, 01:46:16 PM

Amazon.de is showing this at 599€. Ridiculous.

Placeholder price. Even still, I'm expecting it to be between $400 and $500 USD.
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