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hello everyone this is Jaime from pocketnow.com and even though recently we had our software and user experience tour of the Sony Xperia S it turns out that Sony has just launched their PlayStation Store and well so far sadly it only works for the experience any of you users of the Xperia Play will just have to wait but let's talk about it now when Sony said that they were going to make their phones PlayStation Certified I didn't think they'd take that literal because they didn't say PlayStation 2 certified or Playstation 3 certified or PSP they set PlayStation and Playstations back from 1995-96 I think some of you weren't even born back then and the problem is that these games are obviously there were good games for most of us back then but they're not really optimized for 720p resolution display back then what we had were TVs you know usual TVs the typical cathode boxes not the ones that we see now with 720p or 1080p resolutions so obviously games back then weren't optimized for what we have now but still it's what we got the way this works is fairly simple and straightforward you go into your application tray and then you have this icon at the top that tells you let's start the PS Store you go in there once you launch it you get an information about the phones that are being supported currently trying to zoom in here it only supports the Xperia Arc Xperia Arc oh the Xperia Play on the Xperia NX and Arco HD in Japan and then in the United Kingdom France Italy Germany Spain and Australia the Xperia S now I got these this Xperia S in Barcelona so that's why it's still working even though I'm an on notice right now I could probably be in the United States so you have to download these two applications one is 1.07 megabytes which is the playstation pocket which is pretty much the launcher and then you have the PlayStation Store start with the store and then you start with the pocket once these are downloaded you don't want get into your application train you get these two applications installed the PS Store and the PS pocket is mentioned within the PS store you have to log on to your information so signing in you have to create a sony online store account for this to work and obviously leave your credit card once the store is launched you'll notice that there are 16 titles and that these 16 titles all cost six dollars now the interesting part here is if you go into any of these titles try to move to the bottom you'll notice this is 1995 let's go back to Hot Shot golf see where that's from mm these are not new games and the only reason why I chose for example Warhawk is because I remember this game was published in 2007 for the PlayStation 3 as it mentions therefore the problem is this is the original Sony PlayStation version of Warhawk so my biggest disappointment with this service is that obviously once you buy and by the way it only works in landscape let's start the PS pocket this is Warhawk that I just purchased and let's play let's start a new game and you'll notice that everything here is from back in the old days hopefully you guys remember that's right the old PlayStation way to launch let's get this plane you get the typical controls and then look at this this is a four by three aspect ratio we try to put the volume down a little bit this is a four by three aspect ratio because obviously it was optimized for the TVs but back in 1995 it's not optimized for a 720p resolution display and therefore you'll notice that the graphics in the game are quite choppy so let's move away from this demo was 1995 Sony Interactive even though it says 2007 so let's launch a mission sadly up touch controls don't work so only the buttons that are on the side you'll notice that the graphics are grainy choppy old and 4x3 so let's start this game find and retrieve this canister ok let's start playing notice all the choppiness in the game obviously this is a 1995 game and even though it's got all the sorry about that even though it's got all the nine yards of a typical game from the old days well it's not optimized for this display obviously I tried to use it on the Xperia Play because it's got lower resolution than this but sadly it's still not working and still not available let me try to get a lock here mark let's see so again if you were born back in the 1980s and hat and old an original PlayStation this is definitely a treat for you at least for the 16 titles that are there but would I play 6 bucks for this honestly I tell you know I definitely not pay 6 bucks for this now I know this is going to be a very rude comparison for Sony but how about if we try a typical game in the Android Market this is dead space from EA and this cost me 50 cents a couple of days ago that was on sale in the Play Google Play Store and let's just see it let's just compare I mean look at the pixel density look at the quality look at the detail this is a game from now that's obviously not optimized for game console it's optimized for computer and the and the portable you know phone tablet but look at the detail see if I could skip this let's go to play have a look at the detail in the graphics probably this is not like the best game in the world obviously there are other options out there but if we would compare this for 50 Cent's or I could even pay the 10 bucks that it costs whatever it's not on sale but compare this to the Sony Playstation games I mean if Sony would have said PlayStation 3 or even PSP even though PSP has a terrible resolution in comparison to what this phone has I would have probably said sure why not but I would definitely not recommend that you pay the $6 for any of the old games unless you definitely come from the old-school gamers that want to have those old games from the past currently the PlayStation Store is pretty much just an emulator that plays are arms from old school that you could probably even get on the Android Market on your own so is it worth paying not really sure I'd recommend so that's it for our hands-on tour of the Sony PlayStation Store for Xperia devices hope you enjoyed it don't forget to give us a thumbs up if you liked what you saw that's it for now you