Report: Sony's Got a PlayStation Tab Called S1
With all the new tablets being announced, it’s hard to find one that really stands out from the crowd. However, it seems Sony is getting ready to surprise us with the unveiling of an honest-to-goodness PlayStation-branded tablet. Seriously!
Engadget’s nabbed itself some exclusive intel: Confirmed by “two highly trusted, independent sources” comes word that Sony has got not one but two tablets in development. The first is a 9.4-inch Android device (Honeycomb, of course), which is apparently going to be PlayStation-branded.
Said to be 100 percent focused Qriocity, the music, games, ebooks, and videos on demand service that's live in Europe, the team behind the tablet incorporates top engineers from Sony's Reader, PlayStation, and Sony Ericsson departments, but is ultimately lead by the VAIO product team. Sony's working on some custom-built transitions and UI elements for Honeycomb and the result will apparently rival the user interface experience offered by the iPad.
What do you guys think: Is a gaming tablet a possibility or do you just have to have those hardware controls? Let us know!
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For casual games it'll be fine, but if the hardware is there to power some top-tier games then you'd really need a controller.
Bluetooth link with the PS3's controller? But then what's the point in a tablet?
PS3 integration would be nice though, especially streaming PS3 games and content to the tablet just like the PSP can.
Not if their customisations to Android on their phones are anything to go by...
These tablets are never going to be very good with games. Even laptops are pretty crap without a USB gaming keyboard and mouse attached. These pads don't have the hardware performance to play the latest games, nor the control to play anything worth while. Might as well save your money and get a proper computer and a cheap MP5 player..
I'd agree acer that it's the control mechanism that will let these things down. Drop a Tegra 2 or Tegra 3 into something like this and you have quite a lot of graphics grunt, but it's never going to be a GTX 580.
Doesn't mean you couldn't develop games for it (I have some pretty awesome 3D racing games on my HTC Desire), but how in the world are you going to play them?
The only way I could see these being fun is if you can have several together that "talk" to each other.. meaning multiplayer racing games and that kinda' crap y'know?