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Sony SmartPhone To Work With PS2

Posted by Hemos on from the integration-to-a-new-level dept.

thryllkill writes "Yahoo is reporting a new Sony plan to implement a telephone that can talk to a Play Station 2. Of course it pushing the idea of training characters for games on the run, but wasn't this already tried with the VMU? ."

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  1. Whoa there... by magicslax · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's bloody scary. I'm sure this is exactly the thing my gamer addict friends need to help them kick the habit. um..no.

    What with mobile gaming, instant messaging, and various other communication devices a veritable electronic culture is right on the horizon - it seems a bit like the navi-obsessed youth in Lain. The question is if it's better, worse, or somewhere to the side.

    1. Re:Whoa there... by Hyperfrog · · Score: 2, Interesting
      Scary? I wonder if they could get access to your PS2 across the network and find out what games you've been playing recently (ie: since you purchased the PS2), what saves are currently in your system etc.

      Is this like now.. you wake up at 1am to take a slash and see your hard drive going off it's nut (spewing it's contents up the line to some nice hacker)..

      So soon we will walk into our loungeroom and finding some hacker playing GTA3 and demonstrating his expert knowledge concerning the trick with the hooker?

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  2. Sony PocketStation by zsazsa · · Score: 5, Interesting

    but wasn't this already tried with the VMU?

    Don't forget the Sony PocketStation which came out at about the same time as the Dreamcast with its VMU. It plugged into the memory port of the PS1. It was never sold in the US, but the US version of Final Fantasy VIII had support for it (documented in the manual, even.)

    Ian

  3. Re:Sir, Gran Turismo on Line 2 by mk1024 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    True, but such a ridiculous idea could make sony lots of money. I see this as simply one more scheme in an attempt to make the PS2 the low-budget network/gaming/communications applicance in the home.

    Heck, who needs a PC or imac when a PS2 with net access will do what 90% of people want anyways!

    The real question is... can they pull it off?

  4. I already carry around enough crap. by Kris_J · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I tried out one of those Pikachu tamagotchi things a while back, but it's an awfully useless thing to have clipped to your belt. My keyring is so full of keys that nothing plastic survives on it for very long. I carry around a TRGpro, so if someone wants me to play their game anywhere it better damn well work on a grayscale Palm with OS 3. And quite frankly, a little PalmOS app that could read and interact with a save game from a standard flash card (CF for me, MMC/SD for most other new Palm owners) wouldn't be too hard to write. Oh, that's right, none of the games consoles use standard flash RAM...

  5. Re:Why, God, why? by mr_exit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    calling people is overrated. now I'm a hightech worker and as such am being overpaid and am expected to have the cool toys.

    I mean I was given a new nokia the other day, i currently own an ericsson and the nokia was smaller with a longer battery. but i gave it to a friend because i wanted to keep my ericsson... why??

    because my phone has tetris and pacman....

    YES thats the only reason..... dont say noone will buy one... because at the moment I'm eyeing up the new ericcson with java.. JUST SO I CAN PLAY GAMES!!

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  6. GameBoy better watch out... by starvingartist12 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    IIRC, Sony previously mentioned it wasn't about to enter the whole portable gaming domain with a portable Sony system to rival Nintendo's GameBoy series. They always said that cellphones and palms-devices would be where people will be playing portable games in the future.

    Nintendo is totally unchallenged in the portable gaming area right now. Maybe it's just feature bloat in cellphones now... but I think Nintendo should be watching this very closely.

  7. Could be good...could be bad? by amuro98 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since Sony was seriously talking about making the Playstation the center of your entertainment unit, how long before you can simply call up your PS2 and tell it to record a TV program for you?

    Of course, this might mean you might also start getting calls from the PS2...

    Imagine having to tell your boss you have to go home to finish MGS3, because if you don't, the villian in the game will start deleting your MP3 collection.