Sony’s Mobile Gaming Service, PlayStation Mobile, Coming This Fall

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Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that it will be launching PlayStation Mobile this fall, bringing its PlayStation ecosystem to mobile devices via the PlayStation Store. The service will begin in a few regions to start, namely Japan, US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Australia. More countries will subsequently follow.

Formerly known as the PlayStation Suite, it invited developers to join its open beta last April. Upon its official launch in the fall, Sony says there will be about 30 new titles from third party developers and publishers. And to build upon that, there are more third party developers and publishers who have agreed to develop content for PlayStation Mobile. For developers out there who would like to join the party (Yes, I know it’s far from a party yet…) the license agreement for the SDK is $99 per year.

Games will be available on Sony Xperia phones, the PlayStation Vita, and select Android devices (the HTC One series has been named already). In the tablet space, Sony’s own Tablet S and P series will be included, and Asus and WikiPad are also on board with tablets, joining Sony’s PlayStation Certified license program..

Besides Apple, Sony (NYSE:SNE) probably has the closest thing resembling a multi-device ecosystem of any company in the space of consumer electronics. And given that iOS and Android games has been eating into its game demographic over the past few years, finally making a strong push to mobile certainly does make sense. We’ll have to wait and see how well it can execute, and how consumers respond given the already existing alternatives.

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