PSPhone Runs PS1 Emulator, Nobody Surprised

[Sovereignty]

Why do we need our phones to play games now...?

 

[Exort]

I don't believe it is sony behind all this. All the leak footage is in chinese. I think it is someone working in a Sony factory (based in China) got they hand on one.

 

[Daemascus]

So... Sony is ripping off someone elses software that pirated their games to show off their new handheld?

No, there's an XMB in the phone like the PSP, which can run PSP games bought from the PSStore

The article says its an unoffical app from android, not a sony product.

No, the article says that unofficial apps have been doing this for a while. I'm pretty sure apps also don't constitute turning the phone sideways and popping out PSP style face buttons either...

Guess again.

The games we see running on the device in the video are actually not even official Sony-made emulations, rather, they are run on an unofficial App made for use on Androids.

 

[TimeLord]

As long as it can play 'Hogs of War'

Seriously.... if it can play 'Hogs of War', I'm buying this phone!

 

[Simalacrum]

you know what, at this point I wouldn't be at all surprised if Sony themselves were letting these 'leaks' out, just to create hype for the product

 

[AzrealMaximillion]

So... Sony is ripping off someone elses software that pirated their games to show off their new handheld?

No, there's an XMB in the phone like the PSP, which can run PSP games bought from the PSStore

The article says its an unoffical app from android, not a sony product.

No, the article says that unofficial apps have been doing this for a while. I'm pretty sure apps also don't constitute turning the phone sideways and popping out PSP style face buttons either...

Guess again.

The games we see running on the device in the video are actually not even official Sony-made emulations, rather, they are run on an unofficial App made for use on Androids.

Well then explain to me how the face buttons are used to control the game? If it's unofficial like the article says then how could someone have gotten the coding info, re-map buttons to work with the unofficial app, and use them on the PSPhone prototype? And if this is an official Sony product, why are they using a PS app rather than having their own setup for their own phone? Somthing doesn't add up. Either this PSPhone is fake and it's really just some engineer who remodelled a Sony Xeperia, or this is an official Sony product and they are just using the ROM Buddy app to showcase the face button compatibility. Something doesn't add up.

 

[Jumplion]

I am going to assume this is true without even looking at the video, given Sony's track record of keeping secrets secret.

I'm not a handheld gamer in general, and my shitty-ass phone is just enough for me, so this doesn't really interest me at the moment. Still, it'll be interesting to see what they make of it.

 

[BabyRaptor]

Why do we need our phones to play games now...?

My thoughts exactly. I use my phone to talk to people. There are a million other things I can play games on.

 

[nipsen]

"Or are they Sony's clever way of hyping the phone to the public?"

Replace "clever" with "only". And replace "hyping" with "(badly) advertising".. and you're getting closer.

 

[Squilookle]

I can't help but wonder, are these "leaks" really leaks? Or are they Sony's clever way of hyping the phone to the public? The regular manner with which information is leaked, along with Sony's steadfast refusal to acknowledge them, speaks to me of a pre-planned attempt to stir up interest and chatter about the new phone.

Really? Sony's denials makes you think that? Surely they would do that whether they were planned or not, making their denials completely unreliable for a call like that.

Unless you mean regular denials, always a certain time after the latest leak, in which case you might have something there.

 

[globalhawk]

Well then explain to me how the face buttons are used to control the game? If it's unofficial like the article says then how could someone have gotten the coding info, re-map buttons to work with the unofficial app, and use them on the PSPhone prototype? And if this is an official Sony product, why are they using a PS app rather than having their own setup for their own phone? Somthing doesn't add up. Either this PSPhone is fake and it's really just some engineer who remodelled a Sony Xeperia, or this is an official Sony product and they are just using the ROM Buddy app to showcase the face button compatibility. Something doesn't add up.

Android 2.3 was updated to allow physical mapping of keys.

 

[Amnestic]

Wait, how would pronounce that?

Pee-Ess-Pee Phone?
Pee-Ess-Phone?
Pee-Ess-Pee... hone?

Simple.
You pronounce it "N-Gage".

Why do we need our phones to play games now...?

And...this. A multitasking product will always have less power than a dedicated product simply by virtue of technology available at the time.

 

[Arkfeller]

I think you've forgotten the fact that Sony added the ability to play PS1 games on the older PSPs. So it's not Sony ripping off someone else's idea/software to accomplish this. I finished Final Fantasy IX and Chrono Cross on a PSP...

 

[Rad Party God]

Well, this doesn't kinda surprise me at all, if the thing can already play PSP games, then why not PS1 games as the PSP, even if it's some kind of homebrewed app (aka: emulator)?

 

[Asuka Soryu]

So... Sony is ripping off someone elses software that pirated their games to show off their new handheld?

"Take that, you pirates! A bit o' your own medicine!"

 

[Aphex Demon]

:O

I want it! >:O

 

[nipsen]

So... Sony is ripping off someone elses software that pirated their games to show off their new handheld?

"Take that, you pirates! A bit o' your own medicine!"

..well - a ps1 emulator on a SE phone has been something people have pined for since the first smartphone with "Sony" on it.

That doesn't stop Sony HQ from intensely disliking the tendency to make even small parts of the IP into digital commodity. Which I know several people inside Sony sees as being the same as trivialising the platform, and basically losing control over it. So you shouldn't expect this to become a commercial product.

 

[matrix3509]

Seriously Sony needs to just give up on the portable market, they ceased to be relevant since the PSP-3000.

 

[maddog015]

The phone will be called Sony Ericsson Xperia Play per:

http://www.examiner.com/android-in-national/psp-phone-sony-ericsson-xperia-play-may-come-the-spring-of-2011

 

[Flauros]

I like games.

I need a phone.

Gamephone.

Im getting it, so i win