Sony Is Bringing PlayStation Games To iOS and Android Devices (gizmodo.com)

An anonymous reader points us to Bryan Lufkin's report on Gizmodo: A year ago, Nintendo announced its long-overdue plans to bring its games to smartphones. Now, Sony's doing the same thing. You'll soon be able to play original Sony games on your iOS or Android device, the company announced today. Sony is setting up a new business division called ForwardWorks, which will focus on mobile services, bringing 'full-fledged game titles' and Sony's PlayStation characters and intellectual property to handheld smart devices. And it could be happening pretty soon -- the press release says ForwardWorks kicks off operations next month.

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Let's hope it's related to their original effort

[drinkypoo]

Sony originally did this on the Xperia Play, a little-known gaming smartphone possibly inspired by the Nokia N-Gage. Where other phones might have a sliding keyboard, it has a sliding gamepad with two touch-sensitive circles standing in for analog sticks. A small number of games were released for the Xplay, at a few bucks a piece. All of them run on the same emulator, and simply consist of CD images bundled up with it. A tool PSXperia lets you convert your own titles, and the vast majority of games do work with some notably unfortunate exceptions like Wipeout XL. (That's almost as sad as Forgotten Worlds not playing on the Sega Nomad... but uh, I digress.)

Hopefully, they are continuing the strategy of using a general emulator, and even more hopefully, it will be readily hacked to accept other game images... and have link play. Or at least, that they will sell WOXL. Because let's face it, what is really wanted is being able to play WOXL over the internet...