Play Station Phone is a definite Maybe

Pocket Gamer and Gizmodo are talking about the advent of the Play Station phone, which in light of the rumors about the Zune and Google (gphone) phone, and the reality of the Iphone, well its plausible, and might just happen. Although as usual there is going to be nothing definitive about the whole thing, at this point with the media links trying to generate hype about the whole thing, maybe is better than nothing.

Sony Games desperately needs something that is going to work and compete with Nintendo and Microsoft at this point. The PS3 is not it, they have no viable hand held gaming platform (sorry PSP, but you are not a Gameboy or DS killer), and as they firmly establish themselves in 3rd place rather than first place, we are not surprised to see a number of rumors, supposed patents, and other information coming from Sony, in an effort to build buzz.

The Sony Ericsson gaming boss, Peter Ahnegard, said that a PlayStation-branded gaming phone would be coming by Christmas. He also added that it might not be this Christmas, which probably pissed whoever he was talking to off to no end. Source: Gizmodo

A convincing interview over at Pocket Gamer about the idea of a PSP or Sony branded phone from Ericsson makes it sound plausible and defendable. We are sure that there are people in Sony’s corporate office desperately trying to figure out where they went wrong, and how they can recover market share that is firmly in the hands of Wii and the Xbox 360. Maybe they think this will be the killer app, but with all the issues around Sony right now, it is going to be problematic.