sony keep pumping out new fancy hardware while their PS3 can't run multiplatform games and their network is down

they need to fix the network first

I am so glad you guys are keeping up with the news now.   It is starting to make this site my only gaming site I go too.

I dont know what to think, i personally think this wont sell well. They want to emulate Apples success with the Ipad, and fair enough, hats of to them, its a lucrative market. but really?

the only question that comes to my mind is "why buy this and not an ipad?"

So PSN is shut down and your next announcement is a new tablet that will probably cost more than the PS3 did when it first came out?? WINNING!!!

"whats the major selling point here? that it can play PS1 games? you could do that with an Ipad....with a emulator (maybe not legal but :P)"

No buttons means nooooo

I will pick up an eXperia Play, though.

You'd think Sony would try and get one thing right before moving on to the next. Oh well, I think Sony loves being a follower in every market they enter.

I LOVE YOU ON THIS WEBSITE PATRICK.  Finally someone to get some legitimate breaking news from.  I never have to go to another gaming website ever again.  

Cool a Playpad. or would that be a P-Pad?

Playing old Playstation games with just touch controls sounds awful.

" cuz everyone would love to spend ~$500 on a device just to play ps1 titles ;) "

The loudest MEH I can muster. No thanks. If I want to play PlayStation original games, I'll just pop them into my still-working PS2.

Unveil them when I'm most disillusioned with Playstation Network, why don't you?

Nah dude, DO NOT WANT.

No thanks - maybe sell them in the Apple app store and make money?

Doesn't anybody who wants a tablet have one by now? I don't think that the ability to play old games on a touch screen is really a selling point, especially when other tablets have lots of games made specifically for them. DO NOT MOTHERFUCKING WANT.

When is Sony going to figure out that they aren't Nintendo and they can't get away with just selling people the same games over and over on different devices?

That said, this looks neat like the Xperia Play looked neat, but we'll see how well it actually does. I love the idea of PS Certified phones, I think Sony is realizing that smartphones are slowly replacing handheld game platforms, but they have to put good content on the things if they want them to sell. PS1 games just aren't going to cut it.

Wow, I didn't really expect that. I like the idea, but seeing those on-screen controls for Crash just reminded me how much I hate playing fake-buttons-on-screen games on my iPad.

Sony must be making it their mission to completely invalidate the PlayStation brand.

" @PatrickKlepek We already know our current PSN PS1 purchases won't transfer to Playstation certified phones. Any news on if these tablets fall into the same bull shit? Am I gonna have to repurchase my games to get them on the tablet? Are the tablet purchases at least transferable to the phones? "

Uuuuuugggh this is such a terrible idea! TOUCH PADS ARE NOT GOOD FOR GAMES NOT DESIGNED FOR TOUCH PADS!

Looks at least promising. I'm looking to buy a tablet so I can watch TV shows on the bus.

Is it just me or did this come wayyy out of left field?

This is a real bad idea.

not for me, fuck touch displays for gaming

This...wait, why? I don't get it. You can play those on a PSP with real controls, or better on your PS3. What is the benefit here?

Sony loves putting out stupid hardware almost constantly.

I'll go with the consensus here and admit that it does look pretty cool. But I just can't stand the lack of feedback concerning touch screen controls.

I do not want to play games without tactile feedback and with my own hands obscuring the playingfield.
I sometimes buy retro classics like Street Fighter II, Secret of Mana and Phantasy Star II on the iPhone store and every time I get frustrated with the controls almost immediately.

Holy crap! This is new, who would think to have a handheld with 2 screens that folds inward link a clam shell and plays games with a touch screen! Then it has a camera on it to boot! They gain points for originality there, I'll say that much. [/sarcasm]

It would be great if it had all the classic RPGs that were on the Playstation. PS1 was the all time great system for JRPGs. Which is why it is probably my all time favorite console.