Aka. the "Playstation Phone".
Been batting it around a while now but I genuinely think I'll be getting this when my contract comes up for renewal (around October, so only a few months wait).
Why? Well, I can tell you now it's not for the playstation suit. Unless some absolute ball-busters come out on that (FF's, some of the weirder ps1 titles that never made it to europe eg. Chrono Cross) I can't really see myself going in for it.
No, I want it for the emulator ability. As the Xperia runs android; one of the hundreds of old ROM emulators should be able to run on it. Then it's just a case of grabbing a ROM image of said old game and bobs your uncle, an entire legacy catalogue of old games on my mobile. Lectures will never be so fun again.
See, I currently have an HTC Hero. It suffered a lot in the upgrade from android 1.5 to the 2.3's, but mostly I've come to realise that a solely touch screen device kinda sucks for gaming. Sure, there's a few titles that were made for touch screen and as such work well, but it's not an ideal gaming platform for when your palms are sweaty. So, emulator, ps-one style controls and whatever takes my fancy. Boom.
This fills a deep requirement for me. I was born in 88, so I feel that I missed out on a lot of the better old school games. I had limited fundings, so only had my mega drive and whatever I could save up for or my parents bought me, a lot of which turned out to be utter crap. But as a kid you don't care. It does mean that now, with the invent of the internet, ROM image copying and
So expect in the future a lot of analysis of whatever I've decided to lug around in my pocket.
This has however had a negative knock on though.. I kinda feel like I don't want to play the old games just yet, save it until I get the PSphone... Ah well, I'm sure there are greater dilemmas in the world.
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