During tonight’s Super Bowl extravaganza Sony officially announced the worst kept secret in gaming history, the Xperia Play. Often referred to as “the PSP Phone”, the Android-based Xperia Play is Sony Ericsson’s attempt to shake up the mobile gaming market, but in this post-iPhone world I’m not so sure that it will have much of an impact. One thing the Xperia Play does have in its favor is buttons! As with the PSPgo, the back of the device slides downs to reveal a set Playstation buttons but with a touch controlled slide pad in lieu of analog sticks. Sony Ericson will reveal more details regarding the Xperia Play on February 13 but until then check out the distrubing Super Bowl commercial below…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKMo0Q5poUs
