Thursday, January 27, 2011

This Whole PSP2 Thing Is Huge

Seriously huge. While the PSP2 itself is pretty big news (for several reasons) I think the bigger news is the PlayStation Suite. With the PlayStation Suite we're seeing Sony do something that I don't think any of us thought could do at all, much less pull off with the full support of the entertainment division.
In a nutshell the exciting thing about the PSS is the legitimate games that it's going to bring to a platform (Android) that is in dire need of some impressive games. While it's clear that the current major player in the mobile gaming space is the iOS platform this announcement could see that changing in the next two to three years. If you take an informal pole of "gamers" (I hate that term) and ask them about gaming on iOS a couple of things emerge: there are a lot of games, a lot of them are really good, but complex game controls suck.
I don't think that there's any argument to be made against this. What has been the most exciting Apple gaming news in the part 3 months? The actual release of the iPad arcade controls and the stick-on-your-screen capacitive joysticks. That's right, the most exciting news has been physical controls for a platform that will never, ever, have physical controls.