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Saw this and was shocked by the price tag of a expected $900? all that for a gadget which in no way from what I can tell, can possible compete with the likes of a £50 NDS? a £60 PSP? come on... not only is the price stupid, in a market allready full (NDS,PSP,PSP2,iPhone, supiror Android devices) how can this thing compete, further more it looks like a PSP Go and that was crap. Did no one learn from that Nokia NGage thingy?

PS: Apprantly it runs Android and is capable of running PSOne and PSP games soon via some Sony crap...

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Sony Ericsson’s newly unveiled smartphone-cum-PSP the “Xperia Play” (otherwise known as the “PSPhone”) has been revealed to have a nearly $900 price-tag.

The uniqueness of the Xperia Play stems solely from its PSP Go style slide-out controller pad; much like the PSP Go it also has no disc drive and is apparently dependent on downloading games.

The actual phone is a completely standard Android 2.3 offering, which, like all modern Android smartphones, is also soon to be capable of playing PS1 and PSP games sold over Sony’s new Android-centric “PlayStation Suite.”

The up-front cost of the device has so far only been confirmed as €650, or about $900; monthly plans using the phone have already been announced, but not priced.

That it is to be 3 times the cost of superior handhelds such as the 3DS or NGP, and outclassed as a phone by any recent iPhone or Android offering has served to put more than a slight damper on any enthusiasm remaining for it after it turned out to be so ugly…

Source: Sankanku