Sony Ericsson president: PlayStation phone "could happen"
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted May 8th 2009 4:32PM
posted May 8th 2009 4:32PM
Well, this is certainly one rumor that just won't die -- nor is it likely to, not as long as the company has its hands in both manufacturing handsets and game consoles. According to an article in the Financial Times, Sony Ericsson president Hideki "Handsome Dick" Komiyama discusses his struggle to reposition the company as one the world's top three phone makers. Among bright ideas and desperate measures mulled over, the man in charge lets slip that no plan is too crazy or far-fetched to consider. Even a PlayStation-branded phone? "Could happen," he is quoted as saying. And there you have it! Begin warrantless speculation: now.
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why they even bothered to put a drop-shadow on that horrendous render is beyond comprehension...
an interesting concept though, and to think this all spawned from Nintendo hacking of some Sony CEO's...how far we have come.
yeah I know I left one f off of 'off '. T_T
It's also a fail because of stretch-o-vision.
l337 photoshop skills...
If they were actually working on one, there's no way Komiyama would say anything other than "no comment." So this confirms that they're not.
PHUGLY PHONE.
ewww, better not look anything like that
No thanks, SONY ericsson do a shyte enough job of making phones as it is.
Needs moar lens flare!!
Let's see what names we can come up with:
1) PSPhone (obvious)
2) PlayPhone
3) VAIO-Phone
4) UXP
5) Phoneman
6) Walkphone
PSP-M (PlayStation Portable- Mobile)
or if it isn't taken by then and the device has a touch-screen then they could call it the "mytouch" ;)
PSM?
PlayStation Mobile
How about "POS"?
Go!Phone
Phone Go
PSgP PlayStation go phone
GPSP go PlayStation phone
Silo Sony intelligent liaison operator
or just call it the PS, Phone Station.
Pedophone?
iPSP
PSPhone - pronounced "P-S-P-hone"
i clam if it does happen it will fail in comparison to the iphone but still have better game controls
Pass. I don't want Ericsson in my PSP. I really don't want a monthly fee tied to my PSP. Keep it as a console, focus on games, bring in an open app store.
No fee's for gaming, PSN IS ALWAYS FREE for every game...
I'm pretty sure he meant a fee for the phone side of things. Like if he was on a plan.
And yet I would still never buy a sony ericsson phone to replace my golden delicious...
Now if Kraft Macaroni and Cheese were to come out with a phone... THAT would be a different story
I'd never buy a Sony Ericsson to replace my Red Delicious...
Is there any reason you guys are using apples as phones?
thats the ugliest render i've seen in months
beat me to it.
PlayStation phone? No thanks. Service contracts and usage fees are not the makings of fun, they are phone.
There is no way that Sony can compete with the iPhone in the mobile gaming space. Apple already released a device that is a phone, the best iPod ever, an internet communicator, and a mobile game console. In addition to the rock solid OS foundation that is OSX, Apple leads the way in finding innovative ways to bring mobile gaming to the consumers, with their accelerometer and multi-touch user interface.
What a tool.
Listen, Steve, you can take your ball and go home, because we don't care what fanboys say here.
iKurt: You've never actually played games on any handheld besides the iPhone, have you? The tilt controls and touch screen will always pale in comparison to a joystick and actual buttons. The iPhone wasn't designed for games, people just happened to make games for it.
Sony can't compete with Iphone mobile gaming?! are you on crack? might as well say that nintendo can't compete with the iphone as well.
iphone games are just time-wasters, you play it to fiddle around with your phone, they are like an extra feature for an iphone.
PSP games are actual games you'd want to play. and how hard is it to just add on a phone feature to the psp?
for a company to make a phone and then figure out how to make it a gaming system is much harder for one that has years of experience in mobile gaming to add phone functionality to it.
"Could happen"? Sounds like the same odds for me hitting the PowerBall jackpot. Suppose I should go buy a ticket.
Hey! You got Sony Ericcson in my PSP!
Hey! You got PSP in my Sony Ericcson!
why?, the psp is a great hand held gaming device ..aside from the clunky umd drive, but a potential phone? no
sony could of done that back in '04, but for some reason opted for it to be a gaming device only..
in fact if i recall right, there were peripherals designed and built to be used by the sony psp to expand connectivity....mainly the keyboard attachment by logic 3 that never came out due to sony not providing the proper api's and documentation to which is needed to communicate with component and device..
the concept of a playstation phone is not new either, nor is it gonna happen anytime soon...especially with contenders like apple in the ring, to which if sony was to attempt would be like opening a big can of worms..
over 4+ years in existence , 3 different iterations of design and hardware...and seemingly pointless firmware updates..that only in an attempt to curb piracy and quash homebrew.. just give up sony...its gone on way too long
-Mattetch
Worst.Render.Evar. But it brings me much delight to laugh at it. :)
I thought the same, musta been someone's Three year old who did it...
you don't mean that this isn't a real prototype? but it's sooooo coooooool...
U.S. won't sell well, maybe in Japan and Europe. Phone company here is still in stone age when comes to technology.
Id buy it in a heartbeat
I'm not a fan of normal Sony Ericsson phones, but their high end phones are sexy beasts...
Id pay anything for a PSP Xperia :)
I agree with you, an Xperia/PSP should be awesome, but:
- Phone (plan) should be an option, not standard (although almost everybody nowadays have a phone, even kids). The main disadvantage of not making it a phone is the price, unsubsidized phones cost a lot. With a contract they can lower the initial cost.
- It should include wifi, bt, touch screen and a good camera (as the Xperia), & DUAL analogs please.
- Games should be delievered via net (with your collection staying online or offline, so that you don't run out of storage) and/or read-only memory sticks, DUO sized, not Micro nor nano nor whatever smaller size there is.
- Also, a UMD external drive should be available to import your current UMD collection (like they did for the PS2 memory cards on the PS3) and maybe a way to use current PSPs to import the games.
Excellent Dictators reference
will it include blu ray?
This is going to be a fucking disaster.
Translation:
"...In the PSP GO! -2000, we'll add a sim card slot and a virtual dialpad."
dam whats up with the render? What happend engadget the photoshop guy is on vacation?
No iphonekiller here!!!
I agree it looks more like an iphone murderer.
LOL. That's one crappy rendering! :)
What website did you copy that off of?