10 Biggest PlayStation Fails Sony Wants You To Forget

2. Sony Xperia Play/PlayStation Phone

A PlayStation, but with a phone integrated into it - what could possibly be better? It'll be like the PlayStation Vita, but with added phone support, right? Well, no. It'll run on Android, sure, but instead of giving you access to the PlayStation Store, you'll be stuck on a little platform called PlayStation Mobile, which is like a PS Store with almost nothing in it. But that's fine, because the Xperia Play wouldn't be able to run any Vita-level games, and only very few PSP-level games, so most of the fancy stuff in the PS Store would be unplayable anyway. Yes, the Xperia Play managed to become the new Nokia N-Gage, a poster child for the terrible things that happen when you try to integrate a games console with a phone. The fact is that by the point 'mobile gaming' had become its own extremely successful entity, with plenty of cheap, high-quality games available to buy across the iOS and Android platforms. If people wanted a handheld games console (and by this point not many people did), then they'd buy a dedicated one, not this awkward hybrid. For a seemingly game-focused device, the Xperia Play just wasn't powerful enough, even for its time. It constantly made weak claims to being associated with PlayStation, much in the way that a drop-out with nothing going for them would try to earn kudos for the fact that their distant cousin is a respected Hollywood celebrity. In the end, no amount of PlayStation name-dropping could save the console-phone from being an unmitigated flop.