[Xperia Play Android Development] romcio47:
I'm tired of all complaints from, let's say, Angry Users. Here's my opinion:

Xperia PLAY is a smartphone for GAMING. If the games are laggy on ICS and there are also problems with buttons and touchpad, there's no point in releasing new OS! I don't understand people's whining about the lack of ICS. I don't even imagine more than 120 updates for the games only because of the problems with running on ICS. Most of you, people, are very selfish ones. You blame Sony for the lack of ICS and I see this situation in few versions:

Situation #1. Sony: "No ICS for you, we're sorry, guys. Not every game runs perfect so we will not release the update for you because we want you to have the best gaming experience."

Angry Users: "F*CK SONY"

Situation #2. Xperia PLAY receives its update, many MANY games run bad (as we can see in many pages in this thread - many problems).

Angry Users: "YOU RELEASED THE ICS AND THE GAMES ARE BUGGY. FIX IT NOW"

Sony: "Unfortunately, it's not our fault. You have to request new updates for these games as they have to be updated for the new solutions that were implemented for Xperia PLAY controls"

Angry users: "NO IT'S NOT THEIR FAULT. THESE GAMES RUN WITH NO PROBLEMS ON GB, SO THEY CAN RUN THE SAME ON ICS. YOU SUCK. F*CK SONY"

(Barely possible) Situation #3. Being blamed, Sony finally releases Xperia PLAY's update, many games were updated because of the problems.

Angry Users become Happy Users: "YAY, SONY! YOU ROCK!" (hypocritic)

Why is it impossible?

Xperia PLAY is just a ONE phone that won't be compatible with many games. So I know these games won't be updated just because they run badly on ONE smartphone.

Yesterday I saw one comment that made me laugh. "Why don't you, Sony, release ICS for Xperia PLAY especially for normal daily use for the people who don't play at all? Normal users would use ICS and gamers would stay on GB."

I know that some of Xperia PLAY users may not play (they were forced to have it because of the carrier's plan or they received it as a gift, present form other person, etc etc etc) but most of people had bought the phone to play games. And what's the point of buying Xperia PLAY and not playing AT ALL?

I would like to ask a question:

Do the games run slowly on other 2011 Xperia devices with ICS?

The short answer is: YES, THEY ARE!

I think I know why Sony don't bother about laggy games on OTHER 2011 Xperia devices. Because LOADS of them were bought by "normal" users who just use smartphones for calling, texting and surfing! Most of them doesn't play at all, they have the phone for normal "standard" usage!

So please remember - Xperia PLAY is a GAMING smartphone. The coolest feature if it is that we have INCREDIBLY UNIQUE device with the ability to play LOADS of games with its UNIQUE keyboard with never seen TOUCHPAD. Appreciate it, Sony made a great device, we should be proud of them they still care about the best gaming experience.

Besides - Sony. If you want to be fair, release your promised PS Store that will finally work on many countries. The only country that is supported in 100% is Japan. They have many many cool games (LOCOROCO. period.) and you promised that many countries will get full PS Suite support with the release of ICS.

Also, ICS had new and (for me) COOL Xperia PLAY games launcher. Why don't you release it for us? I think many people are bored of the old one (but I may be wrong, of course!).

And maybe you should think about updating GB to newer version, f.e. for the same version (and look) like Xperia S has?

That's all I wanted to say. In conclusion, a few words for the company:

THANK YOU, SONY FOR BEING HONEST WITH US.