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Now's the perfect time for Sony to resurrect the Xperia Play
With mobile and cloud gaming on the rise, Sony should focus on a new gaming smartphone instead of Project Q.
Gaming handhelds are experiencing a bit of a renaissance. While the Nintendo Switch got the ball rolling, Valve’s Steam Deck really pushed the market to a whole other level, paving the way for ambitious products like the Logitech G Cloud, Razer Edge 5G, Asus ROG Ally, and many others.
This could be our first look at Sony's canceled Xperia Play 2
This could be our first look at Sony's canceled Xperia Play 2 — a gaming smartphone designed to play PlayStation games on the go.
Back when Sony Ericsson was still a thing, the company had launched an innovative Android device geared towards mobile gamers — the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. The device featured a sliding mechanism hidden underneath the display, which could be opened to reveal a D-pad, two touchpads to be used as joysticks, PlayStation buttons, and start/select buttons. The device was designed to play PlayStation mobile games and it was quite a hit among enthusiasts. But sadly, Sony didn't refresh the device in the following years and the company's gaming smartphone lineup met an untimely demise. However, it now turns out that Sony had, in fact, been working on a second-gen Xperia Play and we now have our first look at the canceled Xperia Play 2.
If you were an arcade gamer back in the late '90s or early '00s, you will undoubtedly remember Marvel vs. Capcom. If that wasn't quite up your alley, how about Super Street Fighter 2? No dice? What about Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter? In any case, these games are tied together because they all run on the legendary CP System II arcade board (commonly referred to as CPS2).