Industry giant Sony Ericsson unveiled the new Xperia Play, which has been dubbed the “PlayStation Phone”, during their press event at the Mobile World Congress 2011 today. Kaz Hirai announced that the phone will be launched worldwide this coming March, and through Verizon in the United States.
The Xperia Play is expected to come packed with the PS1 version of Crash Bandicoot preloaded into its memory card, and the device itself is expected to get major support from mobile phone game developers with up to 50 launch titles prepped and ready for launch at the device’s release. The Xperia Play will also have multiplayer functionality, with some sort of ad-hoc or wireless play for a FIFA title slated to see a release.
The device also comes equipped with support for Unity 3D, allowing for developers to quickly and easily port games designed for the web to work on it.
Hardware specifications are as follows:
-CPU Snapdragon 1 Ghz
-Capacitative 480 × 854 touchscreen
-Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS
-119×62×16 mm, 175 gr.
-400 MB internal storage + microSD support
-A-GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth
-Megapixel 5 megapixel camera with led flash in the back
-GPU Adreno
41 million triangles / second
245 million 3D pixels / second
The device will launch with support for PlayStation Pocket games designed exclusively for the Xperia Play, Android titles, and PlayStation Suite for PS1 games purchased via PSN. Games purchased on the PlayStation Suite are tied to your PSN account, and usable through the NGP, PSP and any PlayStation Certified Android devices equipped with Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
Confirmed launch titles:
-EA: Sims, FIFA, Dead Space, Reckless Racing, Battlefield Bad Company (EA)
-Gameloft: Asphalt, Assasin's Creed
-Digital Chocolate: Millionaire City
-Digital Legends: Bruce Lee
-Fishlabs: Galaxy on Fire
-Glu: Gun Bros, Guitar Hero
-Trendy: Dungeon Defenders
All Trailers –
Xperia PLAY- Gaming Revolution
Xperia PLAY – feature and performance demo
Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY. Android is ready to play
