Xperia Play (PlayStation Phone) requires you to re-purchase all PSN content.

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http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/14/psa-playstation-network-content-must-be-re-purchased-on-xperia/
PSA: PlayStation Network content must be re-purchased on Xperia Play
by: Ben Gilbert

The Xperia Play will be pre-loaded with an unknown "legendary" PS1 title (psst! -- it's Crash Bandicoot), along with a smattering of launch content -- but it won't be loaded with all that PlayStation Network content you've purchased. Speaking with GameSpot UK, Sony Ericsson UK managing director Nathan Vautier confirmed, "[Xperia Play owners] will have to repurchase the games, so it's not totally integrated."

Beyond the Android Marketplace, Xperia Play owners will purchase content through the PlayStation Store; access to said store will come via Sony's PlayStation Suite, launching "later this year." Unfortunately, it seems that content you've already purchased -- say, PS1 titles that will also be available for purchase on Xperia Play -- must be repurchased for use on the handheld. We can't say we're super surprised. Or mad, even, really. Just disappointed.
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Yup, this device is even worse than a PSP go now.
 
DRM. IT fuckS YOU OVER.

I'll just be sitting over here playing my PSP 3000 with all the emulators in the world, thank you very much.
 
Sounds like a really cool idea, but I'm a bit underwhelmed by the specs if I were to pick this up on a 2 year contract. The d-pad would be really useful for gaming with older ROMS but I like having a physical keyboard more and I'll be investing in the next gen portables this year anyway. Prediction = fail
 
This directly contradicts what Sony said in their press conference. What an idiotic move if it's true.
 
What I don't get is that you can play all your bought content on the Next Generation Portable just fine, yet when we have a android phone that has a built in PlayStation store we have to buy everything again.
 
My understanding from the little bit I read on Tuesday morning about it is that the PSN as we know it and the Playstation Suite they are creating for Android phones/tabs are different from each other somehow. Yet no one seeed to know just how yet. Seems like some of the content for Xperia can be put on other "Playstation Certified" Android devices, that is if anyone else ever cares to release any. I'll be sticking to other Android devices, like someone else mentioned I'd still rather have a keyboard because I hardly have any Droid games yet I use my Droid 2 for text and emails constantly.
 
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