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PlayStation Suite SDK launches soon.

A new PlayStation Suite SDK due later this year allows developers to make Vita-compatible Android games, Sony has announced.

Sony's Kissei Matsumoto briefly detailed the system during a Tokyo Game Show presentation today, calling two developers on stage to play a side-scrolling shooter, one using a Vita, the other an Xperia Play. Sony's recently announced PlayStation-certified tablets will also be compatible.

PlayStation Suite titles will be available on Vita via the PlayStation Store, with a beta version of the dev kit going out to developers in November.

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MavSkipper #1 8 months ago

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Nice, first Steam on PS3 now this. I was actually expecting this because of Xperia Play and the PS Suite.
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kingpin3000 #2 8 months ago

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As long as it is easy for android developers to put their games on it.
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Dave52 #3 8 months ago

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Sony are definitely jumping in bed with Google. It's all good. I'm waiting for the Sony games to be available to Android phones in general...
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altitude2k #4 8 months ago

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Definitely going to get one of these. Luckily I'm going away next year, so I might just get the benefit of getting one duty free as well.
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the_dudefather #5 8 months ago

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Hopefully this results in tasty emulators which I can use a controller with
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wizlon #6 8 months ago

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As an Android game developer this is excellent news, I can imagine the store will be a separate submission with an approval process and checks for things like crashes and copyrighted material (no emulators then) but this is great news.
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Ceelion #7 8 months ago

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If you can't beat them...
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TheEarlOfZinger #8 8 months ago

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Steam on ps3? sorry, what...?
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HyperTails #9 8 months ago

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Excellent news, and shows that Sony really is determined to rectify their mistakes with PSP by putting 100% effort into this one. Just gets better and better.

I'm definately getting one, but the question is, do I pre-order or walk into a supermarket on day one hoping for a little bit slashed off.
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roz123 #10 8 months ago

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It would be funny if you could get the SNES and N64 emulators
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Dave52 #11 8 months ago

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@roz123 - I have Snes, Genesis and Atari emulators on my phone and they are awesome! These would be trully magical on the Vita.
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Toothball #12 8 months ago

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@TheEarlOfZinger

Steamworks, more specifically, which allows cross platform gaming although not the full store. It's in Portal 2 and the soon to be released Counter Strike Global Ops.
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frunk #13 8 months ago

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PlayStation Suite is amongst the cleverer moves Sony has made in recent years - as a "home developer" you can now target 3 platforms with a single release.

Google should be grovelling at Sony's door for this type of support! Possibly one of the few ways Android can hope to challenge iOS in the gaming space.
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32768Colours #14 8 months ago

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To Nintendo: Are you watching? This is how you make a handheld in 2011.
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amiga_dude #15 8 months ago

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#3 Dave52

Google isn't doing that much, Android is just an open system. iOS is very closed system, Apple has issue even ifyou use Flash converter tools to make iOS executable so it will run iOS without use Flash.
It one reasions I belive in the long run iOS will go the way of MacOS (next no one use it) and that Android (most people will use it) will go the way of Windows. iOS will not matter in a few years, everything will end up being being Android. It will be only because of the fact that iOS is such a closed system.
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amiga_dude #16 8 months ago

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#14 32768Colours
True, but when did Nintendo take note of what anyone being saying. Just look how long it took them to drop cartridges on main home system and to use disk's.
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TheEarlOfZinger #17 8 months ago

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@toothball

Ok, thanks.
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32768Colours #18 8 months ago

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@amiga_dude

Very true, and sadly as a long time fan of theirs, its bloody infuriating!!
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Frankie_Lee #19 8 months ago

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Sony seems to be the only console maker willing to accept the changes in the market.
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Ryze #20 8 months ago

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Sounds good.
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SpaceMonkey77 #21 8 months ago

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Wow! Without a doubt a major coup for Sony, and a very smart move indeed. Glad to see that while Nintendo ignore such things, Sony have their brains locked down.

I'll look forward to playing plenty of sweet games on PSVita, Android or otherwise.
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