{"id":12883,"date":"2011-06-01T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pocketpccentral.net\/newscenter\/2011\/06\/01\/xperia-play-psp\/"},"modified":"2011-06-01T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:16:00","slug":"is-the-xperia-play-a-psp-phone-sort-of%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=12883","title":{"rendered":"Is the Xperia Play a PSP Phone? Sort of\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SonyRumors of a Sony PSP phone have been swirling for half a decade, so when the new Xperia Play<\/a> Android phone was announced in February, it was immediately christened the \u201cPSP Phone.\u201d And the Xperia Play is a phone\u2026  and it is \u201cPlayStation Certified.\u201d  But what does that mean, exactly?  Can you grab the Play and ditch your PSP?  <\/p>\n

Probably not.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you need to know about the Xperia Play \u201cPSP phone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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First: it\u2019s not really<\/em> a PSP.  The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play is an Android phone<\/a> with slide-out gaming controls designed around the PSP\/PS3 controller with the familiar \"Triangle\"<\/a>, \"Circle\"<\/a>, \"Cross\"<\/a> and \"Square\"<\/a> buttons.  Like the PSP Go<\/a>, the phone does not have a UMD drive, so you can\u2019t use PSP games you already have with the handset.  But you can play some titles already available on the PSP and other gaming platforms.<\/p>\n

The Xperia Play comes pre-loaded with several games including Bruce Lee Dragon Warrior, Star Battalion, Sims 3, and Madden NFL 11.  You can purchase and download additional games right from the phone in a special digital store, but games you\u2019ve already purchased for the PSP or PSP Go will not transfer to the Xperia Play; games must be ported for the phone.  If you\u2019ve already purchased a title for another PlayStation device that\u2019s also available for the Xperia, you\u2019ll have to buy it again.<\/p>\n

You can also play standard Android games on the Xperia Play just like any other Android-powered device.  But the built-in hardware controls will not work with all games, and in those games they do work, support may be limited.  This may change over time if the phone gains enough popularity for software designers to update their games with support for the phone\u2019s controls.  <\/p>\n

So, the Xperia Play is really a phone with some PSP features and familiar games – which is great, but not exactly the PSP phone many may imagine it to be.  You\u2019ll get some of the PSP experience, but nowhere near what Sony could have done if they really wanted to attract mobile gamers to the phone en masse.  <\/p>\n

Still, there are currently a fair number of games for the new phone, with more surely to be announced at next week\u2019s E3.  If you\u2019re a gamer, the Xperia Play may be your best smartphone choice for now, but you should go into it with your eyes open knowing what you\u2019ll get\u2026 and what you won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

PlayStation button images courtesy of Wikipedia.org<\/font><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rumors of a Sony PSP phone have been swirling for half a decade, so when the new Xperia Play Android phone was announced in February, it was immediately christened the \u201cPSP Phone.\u201d And the Xperia Play is a phone\u2026  and it is \u201cPlayStation Certified.\u201d  But what does that mean, exactly?  Can you grab the Play […] Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12887,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883\/revisions\/12887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}