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PSOne games begin appearing on Android Market, limited to Xperia Play

by Randy Nelson on Mar 31st 2011 7:10PM

As both Europe and North America count down the (still unknown) days until the launch of Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play smart phone, PSOne games compatible with the "PlayStation Phone" have started popping up on the Android Market. Five games, in fact, including Cool Boarders 2, Destruction Derby, Jumping Flash, MediEvil 2 and Syphon Filter. That's right -- the Play is ready to, er, play like it's circa 1995-97.

All of the games are selling for £3.99 ($6) -- the same going price as on PSN. MediEvil 2 and Syphon Filter are available in five languages (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish) while the rest are English-only releases. They're also all (predictably) platform-locked to the Xperia Play (Sony Ericsson R800i). All this one day after Google removed the PSOne emulator, PSX4Droid, attributing the action to a Content Policy violation.

Via: Engadget
Source: Android Market

Tags: android-market, cool-boarders-2, destruction-derby, google, jumping-flash, medievil-2, mobile, playstation-phone, psone, smart-phone, sony, sony-ericsson, syphon-filter, xperia-play

Reader Comments (28)

I thought the plan was to have the PlayStation content delivered through the PlayStation Store, avoiding the ubiquitous Android Market?

@Epoque
The "Playstation Suite" software isn't suppose to debut until later in the year.
Maybe they'll change their mind about PSN game transfer by that time.

This is hilarious.

Nintendo releases the 3DS and Sony releases..... the Xepria Play.

Don't give me that NGP crap. It aint in stores so it doesnt count.

@Co Actually, I would rather have the XP. 3d is a gimmick and I was unimpressed by the store demo I saw. Now, a full fledged smart phone with a real slide-out physical controller? That's something that's useful to me as a gamer.

@MEGATOOL

Seriously?

The tech specs. are laughable when there are already Android smartphones on the market that have twice the RAM and a dual-core processor. This thing is underpowered for a new Android device let alone a game machine.

@Co

Correction. Sony Ericsson released the Xperia as their first gaming handheld.

The lack of connection between the Xperia and the PSN/PSP, and the fact the games are equal price is really a deal breaker.

@wcarnation Yeah, that's a dropped ball right there.

@wcarnation

Seriously. I finally get to upgrade to a smartphone on Sunday and I was seriously considering getting the Play over the iPhone. If they would let you download all the minis/PS1 games from PS+ on the Play, it would've been a no-brainer. But unfortunately (and predictably) Sony and Sony Ericsson just couldn't play nice. Let's face it...the target audience on this is gamers and stuff like this turns us off. They're not targeting the casual audience. Hardcore gamers stay up to date and, because of this crap, this will not do as well as they hope it will.

Agreed. I was considering the Xperia Play until they announced I'd have to re-buy PS1 games I'd already bought on PSN in order to play them on the Xperia Play.

That was meant to be @wcarnation; reply fail ;(

Sony is all over the place with these devices and stores. I have no idea how they figure they will maintain all of these skews and stores without confusing consumers.

@Startingline13 ArmlessOctopus. Sku

@The Wicker Man
Doh! Fail on my part.

@Startingline13 ArmlessOctopus

impulse buys. also consider it probably took them very little work to get this up and running. now they are probably seeing more sales because of it

Sony is really making not want xperia play with non PSN content transfer and now this.

@Senor Whopper. What? ..... I do not understand you. Sony should one day try to do things in such a counter productive manner... why can they not make a phone that at least plays ps2 games or PSP games? What a missed opportunity. Seems like big leagues are trying to avoid or control price war with the app store.

Man, MediEvil 2 isn't even available on the PSN storefront for PS3/PSP... what gives?

@dfhksjyrui

*rubs eyes*

SPORTS JERSEY'S?! Take my credit card number right now sir:

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By 'Policy Violation' they mean "we stand to make a crapton more money"

Why would people rebuy games they already own when they can just go legally emulate them for less.....

This only interests me if I can hook up a DualShock 3 to the phone.

@johnperkins21 - I'd expect there to be a good chance of that. If you can find a display unit, then you may want to take a DualShock 3 in with you to try pairing it to the phone. I mean, the phone's got to support Bluetooth, and that's what the DualShock 3 uses. Most Android phones can pair with a Wii Remote. I assume that the same is true of DualShock 3.

After reading Engadget's review, this phone is a disappointment. I wanted to upgrade to this, but i'd rather have a more powerful android phone that wasn't built cheaply and with several features at the minimal expectancy.

@sdkfjwoe

Burberry... channel... LOL someone tell these idiots they are on a gaming website.

So they don't expect to make any money off these games I take it. First mistakes are already being made.

I don't understand, how exactly does the PSX4Droid run afoul of the "Content Policy" thing?

So just get psx4droid from applanet.net's market app.

this is interesting. i wonder when will it appear at online games?

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