PSOne titles are available for the Xperia Play as part of the PlayStation Certified program, which will also include the S1 and S2 tablets and other devices. However, sales of the titles have been sluggish so far, struggling to break the three figure mark.
I think there’s also an awareness thing for people that are getting their hands on the device and where they are choosing to purchase games. There s only a few, at the minute, PlayStation One titles there, and there’s more coming on a regular basis, and there’s the whole PlayStation as a content provider exclusive to the device, the story about that, that will emerge and people will see, said Dominic Neil-Dwyer, Head of Market Development at Sony Ericsson. So, there s no concerns, it s a revolutionary device, it s shaking up the market, we’re very pleased with it. In terms of getting the PlayStation Certified program out, generally, we’re very happy. I think we ll make a full assessment of if it has achieved our expectations fully, further down the line, so we’re very happy.
We know there’s a lot more to come that we’re not, obviously, releasing yet, he added. We re releasing as we go, rather than telling everyone the full story, and I think everyone appreciates that you have a good line-up at the start of selling a device, because it is a smartphone and it has a good line-up and that line-up will grow and the feedback we got on that line-up is that it is a good line-up, so we’re very happy where we are.
Source: PlayStation Lifestyle
