The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play has just been made official at Sony Ericsson’s press briefing on the eve of Mobile World Congress 2011. The Xperia play has been doing the rumour rounds on many of the tech blogs over the past few weeks and even featured on Sony Ericsson’s Facebook page, but this is the first time we have seen anything formal on the device that is set to bring gaming to the mobile mainstream. The release date for the Xperia Play is set to be April and will be available on 3.
With slide-out gaming controls that emulate the original platform’s controls and a huge back catalogue of games, this is quite possibly the most exciting gaming handset since Nokia released the N-Gage in 2003.
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play will come preloaded with one “legendary” PS1 game, although Sony are remaining tight lipped about which one that will be. Watch this space though, because as soon as we know we’ll blog about it here. The Xperia Play will also link into the Sony’s playstation store that is due to launch later this year and there will be 50 titles available upon launch.

I don't care what anyone says... this is AWESOME and I WILL be getting this

Lol sorry, forgot to post the original link:

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wow my phone is no longer a phone but a game player...wat ive always wanted .... alexander graham bell is facepalming himself where ever he is

i need a new phone anyways...

Ill stick with Android thanks

50 games at launch though is great

Woofels said ...

Ill stick with Android thanks

50 games at launch though is great

Key features:

Gaming controller: D-pad, 4 symbol keys, shoulder buttons (R/L), 2 analog “touchpad” joysticks
Powerful processor running at 1GHz and delivering 60frames/second for true-to-life games experience
3-axis accelerometer & e-compass
PlayStation dashboard launcher
Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
Dimensions: 119x16x62
5 MP AF main camera
Front facing VGA Camera
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
3.5mm audio jack

wat are those 50 game titles?

Ooh nice run's on android already

flexIble elena said ...

wat are those 50 game titles?

Been looking around the interwebz... no names yet I also wanna know...

hahahaha gonna get fogger at 60 fps

its specs look pretty good and considering the xperia's are already good phones this could be a success...

Those 50 games are just gona be improved versions of phone games like Asphalt, assassins creed, guitar hero, etc. And digital legends will be working on a game for it. I honestly can't wait to see what it is. Their games are awesome. If some how the get The One, it was an awesome fighter on ngage and ngage 2.0, on this, i'll get this phone.
@ragna, your screen still doing its crap? Mine seems to be getting worse

@Hell Blazer: From reading the IGN article, it sounded to me like they will release it with 50 games ported from PS1 and in addition things like assasins creed and dead space are being developed for it as well...

Nope. Sims 3 isn't on ps1. I read the articles on zomgitscj. They are the guy that go all out with phones. All the news, interviews and stuff are there

Pretty capable Sony Erriccson

Hell Blazer said ...

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@ragna, your screen still doing its crap? Mine seems to be getting worse

yea...