Nokia’s already been here with its ill-fated N-Gage, but it seems Sony reckons the market is ready for a Playstation-branded games mobile. Well, maybe.
SCE’s co-CEO Jim Ryan hasn’t exactly said a PlayStation phone is on the cards, nor that Sony develop a mobile games platform like the N-Gage has now become.
All he’s actually said is that Sony and Sony Ericsson are working together on something: “The Playstation is a proven success and so is Sony Ericsson. Convergence with the two arms working together is definitely plausible.”
Undoubtedly the Playstation brand on a Sony Ericsson handset would be big. Huge even. Perhaps even bigger than the iPhone.
However, Ryan would only say the two companies have found ‘a match’ between a camera and a mobile phone. The most likely outcome would be phone functions integrated into a console, kind of like a PSP with phone call functions.
Just to stoke expectations, it’s also emerged that the US Patents and Trademark office has received a patent application from Sony Ericsson for a mobile with video game features on it.
We get the feeling this one’s going to run and run!
[Via Economic Times]
Update: It turns out Sony is not developing a Playstation phone. Just hours after this story hit the web, Sony’s released a statement saying that Ryan was ‘misquoted’.
“We do have talks with other arms of the Sony family about various topics,” said a Sony statement, “but I can confirm we are not currently working together on the creation of a PlayStation Phone.”
So there you have it.
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