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Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Poor Game Sales
The five PSOne classic games released by Sony Ericsson have only been downloaded less than 1,000 times which suggested that most Xperia Play users did not really adopt to the games very well. Of the five, Destruction Derby managed the most downloads at 500-1,000 while Cool Boarders 2, MediEvil and Syphon Filter all managed about 100-500. Jumping Flash came in last with an unimpressive 50-100.
Head of Market Development at Sony Ericsson, Dominic Neil-Dwyer seems to think that this is not a bad start.
“I think there’s also an awareness thing for people that are getting their hands on the device and where they are choosing to purchase games. There’s only a few, at the minute, PlayStation One titles there, and there’s more coming on a regular basis, and there’s the whole PlayStation as a content provider exclusive to the device, the story about that, that will emerge and people will see.
So, there’s no concerns, it’s a revolutionary device, it’s shaking up the market, we’re very pleased with it. In terms of getting the PlayStation Certified program out, generally, we’re very happy. I think we’ll make a full assessment of if it has achieved our expectations fully, further down the line, so we’re very happy.
We know there’s a lot more to come that we’re not, obviously, releasing yet. We’re releasing as we go, rather than telling everyone the full story, and I think everyone appreciates that you have a good line-up at the start of selling a device, because it is a smartphone and it has a good line-up – and that line-up will grow – and the feedback we got on that line-up is that it is a good line-up, so we’re very happy where we are.”
It seems to me that less than 1,000 downloads for a phone that received so much hype about is definitely something to be concerned about.