Remember the Playstation Suite for Android devices? Remember how much it promised, only to deliver clunky ports of Crash Bandicoot and Ridge Racer? According to Sony, things are about to change, and its move into mobile gaming is about to get very serious indeed. Read more
Sony is determined to distinguish the games available through its PlayStation Mobile platform from the somewhat variable quality often found on mobile app stores – and now it’s outlined just how it plans to do that.
E3, the world’s biggest games expo, is underway in Los Angeles. While most Brits were sipping on Jubilee Pimm’s and coronation chicken sandwiches over the Bank Holiday, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo were all busy announcing their new games, services and hardware in front of the world’s press.
Although actually, watching them all, you’d be forgiven for thinking Sony and Microsoft weren’t simply using the show as an excuse to telegraph each others’ wishes to hold off on the next generation of hardware for as long as possible. Indeed, it’s telling that, a few new games aside, Sony’s most significant announcement was the arrival of the PlayStation brand on HTC phones. Is it too little too late?