Xperia Play and PlayStation Network; Not So Compatible After-all
The Xperia Play was finally announced by Sony Ericsson and given a worldwide launch of March 2011, starting the hype train going at all new speeds. Nathan Vautier, managing director for Sony Ericsson UK has slammed down on the brakes of this train by announcing that previously purchased content on the PSN will not transfer to the Xperia Play.
Speaking with GameStop UK, Nathan gave the news that might have killed the idea of a PlayStation Phone for many gamers.
[Xperia Play owners] will have to repurchase the games, so it’s not totally integrated.
This comes as a bit of shock to many of us who had visions of playing many of their purchased games on not only their PSP and PS3, but also their brand new phone. Please let us know in the comments how you feel about this news.
5 Responses to “Xperia Play and PlayStation Network; Not So Compatible After-all”
Well how can you play a game developed for a PSP on a different OS. Developers have to retool the games and they should be compensated for that effort. If not then this will go the way of the ???, PSP vs HomeBrew.
This sort of delves into the question: will Sony let users migrate their UMDs to the new flash-based NGP?
Gamer’s argument is: Users would have to rebuy all their PSP games for NGP, so no one would buy NGP
But we say that people are very willing to repurchase older games when re-tooled for a better platform (like PS2 “HD Collections”).
But they would have to offer something like that in return to warrant the re-purchasing.
The PSN to Android “PS Certified” is a little harder to swallow, because they’re essentially the same games. Nothing is “better” about them (visually, they haven’t changed).
This is more of the iOS to Android migration: “I have to re-buy all of my apps?”
Yes… Yes you do. But it sucks. It’s why people get stuck into an ecosystem and find it hard to get out. It really stifles adoption (but we’re probably talking 3%-5%).
somewhat lame. I would expect the PSN account to be as good across all PS platforms
That would have been nice, but as @SPD55 stated these games do require being ported over to the Android platform. What about a compromise, where games that you previously purchased from the PS Store are sold back to you at a reduced price? That’s a pipe dream, for sure…
I was 100% confident Ps1 classics and Mi would transfer over simply because they’re very low resource games that probably wouldn’t even need much effort for porting since the games are small enough that you’d most likely be able to port the Ps1 emulator on the psp/ps3 to the phone. And since Minis are compatible with both the Ps3, and Psp I’m pretty sure you’d be able to pull off a similar emulator type solution for the phone that the Ps3/Psp employ.