At this year's E3, Sony took their first baby steps into the much prognosticated 'post-console' future with the scrapping of their lackluster PlayStation Suite, and the introduction of PlayStation Mobile. Built on the strength of a partnership with HTC, the renamed program hinted at the release of Sony-approved content for Android smartphones and tablets. Details, however, were scant. Until today.
In previous years, mobile and social gaming has taken a pretty decisive back seat to AAA announcements at E3 - the year's Superbowl of press events. With the smartphone, tablet, and Facebook markets growing at explosive rates, however, gaming on the go and in the browser are becoming harder to ignore.
If you can't beat'em, join'em. It's an adage as old as time, and it's one that Sony now apparently subscribes to. Mixed into a week filled with announcements about their upcoming next gen portable device, codenamed NGP, Sony has unveiled the next platform that will play host to the PlayStation brand - and for the first time ever, it's not a platform that's owned by Sony.