Should Sony Team With Google On a PlayStation Phone?

donniebaseball23 writes "The PSP2 is already in the hands of developers, but will Sony take the right direction in the portable sector? Following a recent op-ed on fixing the PSP business, leading game industry analysts came to the consensus that the best avenue for Sony to take is to offer a PlayStation Phone, and a strong partner like Google would do just the trick. 'Sony has the opportunity to redefine the portable games category. I think the best move would be to get out in front of Microsoft's inevitable Xbox LIVE Arcade Mobile and take on the App Store and carrier deck portals. ... They could put out a proper PlayStation Phone (and a PlayStation Pad) but these should compete with smartphones and tablets, not dedicated gaming devices. To do this quickly, Sony could partner with Google and take advantage of Android's considerable momentum,' said Billy Pidgeon of M2 Research."

Comments

Re:Yeah, not going to happen.

[MichaelSmith]

Well, sony already make phones and some of them run android.

Re:Yeah, not going to happen.

[Darkness404]

an inferior standard to HD-DVD,

Um, what? HD-DVD allowed for 30 GB dual layer at the same read speed as Blu-Ray while Blu-Ray allows for 50 GB dual layer.

While it could be argued that Blu-Ray has been more proprietary than HD-DVD was, I wouldn't call the practical specifications inferior.

Re:Lack of support

[Dilligent]

Noooo, I've written for XNA in the past and if you're paying attention you will notice that commercial Xbox games are NOT XNA based. Yes..it might be possible to run these on an Xbox, but then only the simplest of games will do so comfortably. I have seen DirectX vs XNA sheets saying there's almost an order of magnitude of performance difference between the platforms. XNA is nice if that is a non-issue for you, but if there is considerable overhead, good luck to you, if you know what you're doing, switch to DX now. XNA is NOT viable for big titles on mobile phones!

Yes

[codepunk]

Yes, and everything should be programmed to run on the Dalvik jvm so it can achieve a blistering 5 fps.

Re:Yes

[Sockatume]

Devs have been able to directly address the graphics hardware for some time now. You've seen Google Earth running on Android, no?

Re:Lack of support

[Anonymous Coward]

Major Microsoft astroturfing out tonight. This guy's first post ever just happens to read like an ad for Windows Mobile 7, and both people that call him out on that get modded troll. Posts like this have been popping up for the last two days. Mods, keep an eye out...

Re:Not Sony: Closed; Yes Nintendo: Open

[grimdawg]

Sony may like its systems closed, but Nintendo has as long a history of locked-down, anti-piracy measures and closed systems. The Wii does not play DVDs. Homebrew (slash piracy...) cartridges for DS are banned. Online is a joke. As far back as the NES and as recently as the DSi (no transferring downloadable games between systems), Nintendo is all about proprietary.

Re:Yeah, not going to happen.

[sznupi]

...and all seem to be stuck at 1.6 so far. Sony Ericsson is even close to the introduction of SE Liveview - small (watch-sized, and also carried on a wrist) display for showing some basic info and performing basic actions, requiring an Android 2.0 device. Well, at least it means they should be close to pushing upgrades.