Over a year ago during their CES presentation, Sony announced a new initiative called PlayStation Suite. The program, which directly targets Android smartphones and tablets, is designed to expand the PlayStation brand and experience by offering PlayStation Certified devices access to catalogued PlayStation titles. Sony hopes that, not only will this keep the PlayStaiton brand relevant in the mobile world, but it will also create a halo effect where users will come back to the full PlayStation experience on the PS3 and PS Vita. Sony also vowed that the program would be open to any manufacturer who is willing to opt into the program’s certification process.

Till now, PlayStation Suite had been available on select Sony products like the Xperia PLAY and the Sony Tablet S. Now, keeping to their promise, another manufacturer has seemed to join the party. HTC, makers of the popular Android Evo phones, will be the first non-Sony manufacturer to offer access to PlayStation Suite. The announcement is expected to come at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where HTC will bring the services to their ever-growing lineup of Android smartphones and tablets.

With more companies potentially jumping onboard with the PlayStation Certified programs, this could also give Google and their Android platform a proper challenger to Apple’s Game Center which is available to all iOS devices though, currently, the two services are completely different. Still, PSone games can just be the beginning of this service, seeing how Sony’s PlayStation Network which is available on the PS3 and PS Vita also offers PS2 titles and smaller games like Mini’s. 

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[Via Pocket-lint]