SE just needs to put a removable battery on this bad boy and make it very durable because I am going to button mash like a mad man on this thing! I remember having ROMs installed in my jailbroken iPod touch back in 2008 and how playing Sonic or any 2D platformer sucked because there was no tactile feedback. Jumping on moving platforms almost felt impossible to do. Directional pad touchscreen buttons were useless. Then I play the official Sonic game on an iPhone 4 and it still was bad. At last, my prayers are answered! I can now play a 16-bit 2D platform game with some actual respect and the way it was meant to be played. Ironic, because my phone is more powerful than an Xbox 1 and I still can't experience 16-bit games with ease. Nomore crappy ROMs with crappy controls. I can do diagonal moves too just from the feel. Nomore of these on-screen d-pad and tilt control bullcrap. In gaming, durability matters alot. I know people who dropped their GameBoys and DS all the time, and it still keeps on chugging along. And remember the early leaked photos of the PSP? It didn't look like that in the final stages. These pix are still in prototype stages. Not too worried about this ugly design. I thought the PS1, PS2, and Super NES were ugly designs too, but I still loved them for the games and the wonderful memories each one gave me. I am too busy playing games to not give a crap looking at the aesthetics all day. My iPhone 4 can provide that for me.

It sucks that this PS phone won't have any analog sticks, but the touchpad may just have to suffice. At least 2D gaming can be played correctly. Thank you, Sony, for giving me hope again! Now let's see if you can actually release this thing and not have us wait for more than a year for it. My launch day iPhone 4 can chillax a little more and be catered for casual gaming. Conserve my iPhone 4's battery life for things other than just playing games. I can hopefully now play Street Fighter II games on this PlayStation phone via WiFi and hopefully battle random folks all over the world! A PlayStation phone needs to happen and do well! Real gamers need this!
Two major developments is happening in the Android camp right now. First Sony and Google can take each other to another level with this marriage of PlayStation and Android. This long rumored PlayStation phone may finally be true. The underpowered/overpriced Nintendo 3DS may just have to wait if I buy it. And just a couple months ago, Google mentioned there would be no Nexus Two, but there is rumored to be another branded Google phone and having Samsung to manufacture it. And it could carry the Orion dual-core chipset and have an even higher resolution than the iPhone 4. Remember, Samsung may not be my fav company, but they do provide and manufacture their own parts.
A PlayStation phone may not be a big deal to everybody, but to many real gamers, it can be. Nomore crappy controls and I know Sony and Google are lenient when it comes to mature content. I expect to see many revisions of this and it won't be all that refined or have good battery life in this first model. Heck, the first iPhone had problems too and crashed more often than I liked, This is just the" beginning" of marrying core gaming with cell phones. This PS phone is what the Nokia N-Gage should have been while being backed by an electronics giant who once ruled the video game industry.
Apple is having a banner year in 2010 with the iPhone 4, iPod touch 4, and iPad. The top three on children's Christmas wishlist. They should continue to kick butt when they expand to Verizon. But Microsoft, Google, Sony, and Nintendo could all being making some noise next year too. The announcement for the successors to Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, Wii, and DS are due out within 18 months. With recent 3DTVs that are glasses-free, the next gen of gaming could be headed in that direction with the 3DS being the first to move it that direction. Going to be some amazing product announcements within the next couple years. Feel like a kid in a candy store with this long rumored PlayStation phone and thinking of the possibilities seem endless.