Mar 31
PlayStation Emulator Removed From Android Market – Xperia to Blame
Posted in: Google, playstation, sony, Today's Chili, video games
PlayStation emulator PSX4DROID was pulled from the Android Market recently, and the app’s developer smells something fishy. After all, why would Google target one particular app in a store lousy with console emulators–especially when it doesn’t ship with any ROMS, and therefore doesn’t actually break any of the app store’s rules (namely the first one involving illegal content)?
The emulator’s developer thinks the whole thing stems from the upcoming release of Sony Ericsson’s Android-based gaming device. “Sony’s Xperia Play must be coming soon,” the developer wrote on Twitter yesterday. “Google just suspended all my legal Sony PSX emulator app id’s from Marketplace.” And shortly after, “This isn’t about emulators. This is about Google letting Sony rule their ‘open’ marketplace.”
As Ars Technica is quick to point out, however, other PlayStation emulators still exist in the Market, which seems to take air out of the argument that Sony is working with Google to remove the competition from the store.
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