PlayStation Mobile developer program launches, download the SDK

This line: “We’re working hard to extend the already wide reach of PlayStation Mobile by adding more and more devices to the growing list of PlayStation Certified devices.”

should actually read

“We’re working hard to extend the already wide reach of PlayStation Mobile by adding more and more counties to the growing list of PlayStation Certified countries.”

Come on, more countries for PSM, please…

Great stuff.

Now hurry up and add PSN integration

Stop dividing your customer base into ‘priority’ and ‘we don’t care about those’ customers. Bring PlayStation Mobile to all EU countries. Is it so hard Sony? Really? You don’t want my money? I really thought you would learn from your PS3 services mistakes, but it seems you’re following exatcly same wrong pattern on the Vita too. Unbelievable.

SCEE continues to only care about select European countries…

if only I was a games developer :’(

As a C# developer I downloaded the previous dev kit software (and liked what I saw) just before launch. But then as I was just about to start making a game (had some really good ideas) I saw it launched without PSN or Trophy support, so did not bother. As an avid vita owner/gamer (now gets much more play than my ps3 even when I am in the house) really don’t see the point of these games not really any better than minis. Come on Sony get Playstation Mobile on the PSN with trophy support and get it on iOS. In my opinion you really screwed up by launching without the 2 major selling points you had a (established single network and trophies which can be very addictive for gamer and would suck a number of non PlayStation owners into the PlayStation fold), you lost all your release publicity and a large number of gamers like myself just wrote it off. Sort these out and get a market and I will start buying and writing games for this platform. Oh and as a side note why was this not launched globally, why is it still not available in European countries aleast, really are not encouraging developers to spend time making PSM games when such a small market compared to iOS and Android let alone PC. Disappointing

“You’ll be able to sell your games on the PlayStation Store for PSM and reach millions of PlayStation gamers around the world”

With “around the world” meaning 9 countries, I guess.

You should make Playstation Mobile available on the Nexus line of devices. After all, they are the most worth-having devices in the market.

I wonder how is Sony expected to attract Xbox Live Indie Games and App Store devs if they’re so selective about who is OK to participate and who isn’t. One of the reasons I got a Vita was the idea that everyone that knows C# will be able to make games for it.
I wouldn’t be as upset as I am if anyone was able to answer either “when” or “why not yet”.

I’ve been exploring the PSM developer site, and it seems like Sony decides the retail price of the applications, and they must follow some guidelines which aren’t disclosed to the public. Also, nobody can make free games, only paid and freemium. It’s hard to purchase a game when the only information available on them is two or three lines of text and three screenshots and no demo. And no PSN functions at the moment.

Please ignore CoolRicky008UK Sony. He does not speak the minds of Vita owners, or PS owners….. or the human race for that matter.
Can you spell something correctly in one of your posts? Please?

Do your part, flag CoolRicky as abuse/grief.

Anyway, on topic. Is PS Mobile strictly for games, or will we be seeing 3rd party apps, such as calculators, ebay, mobile banking, 3rd party browsers, etc?

What the?!!! I’ve been planning on getting the xperia S just because it’s the only one with specs I like AND PSN mobile support, and now I find out I won’t be able to access it anyways just because of my country of residence?! If not even Europeans are getting it I probably won’t ever! At least make it available to the same countries that have the regular PSN that’s on ps3!

If it’s like this I’ll just get me a much cheaper phone with same specs

1. 10 countries is not the whole world. With this move you reduced your development community directly from the beginning.

2. You mention games, games, games all the time. I thought that your original plan was to have games and non-games apps. If you don’t support the second part you directly cut the opportunity especially from Vita to be much more that it is right now. Every Vita owner I know would be glad to also have some apps other than games to its Vita just like they do with their smartphone.

3. Where is PSN and Trophy Support?

4. More technically speaking you decided to use C# which is an excellent choice. But your SDK is based on ancient technologies. Where is data-binding or dynamic object positioning in UI?

Will PlayStation Mobile be moving on to other devices that aren’t made by Sony? I have an Xperia Play currently but my contract is nearly up and I’m looking to upgrade to something powerful with a big screen, was going to wait for HTC Deluxe (or J butterfly or whatever they’ll call it over here) but with PlayStation Mobile getting trophy support apparently I want to get a phone that works with it.

I wish Sony would make a successor to the Xperia Play.

Please roll out PSM in Scandinavia within the year.

Or whatever. I’m just trying to give you money.

@Shahid #1: Thanks for your answer, I think PSM is one of the best things happening to Vita (except PS Plus of course), and it would be a shame if it would remain limited to the few countries it is rolled out today.
I will definitely keep an eye out on any new developments surrounding PSM, especially now with this devkit!

Same here.

All european countries please, including Sweden.

Before christmas.

We want to buy, what is the problem?

Will there ever be a MAC version of the SDK?

It’s cool and all but it’s too limited. Big appeal of Minis was to be able to play them on my PS3 and PSP (and Vita when I get one) but until I can afford a Vita I can’t even play PSM games. Is a bit frustrating as I have a lot of unfinished game projects on my PC I was getting motivated again to rework for PlayStation formats and this would be fine if you could just make it for all current PlayStation formats.

As cool as it would be I would love for PlayStation Mobile apps & games to be available on ps3 also… Even though it is obviously not mobile

I wish we could vote on comments, because I agree totally with #1.
By the time PSMobile reaches here, I’ll already be spending my time with PS+ offers and won’t fell the need to buy these games. Hope I’m wrong though.

i am used to not geting tings
1 = no video renting service
2 = no u tube
3 = no PlayStation Mobile
4 = no free realms

u gone have hard time to sel me ps4 !!!!

I agree, the comment system could use a change, particularly replying to others and maybe a voting system also.

I’m proberly going to sound like a noob with this but will any other languages other than C# work on this?

Im currently studying Video Games Programming and the standard we’ve learnt is C++, currently also Java & Lisp. I will be learning C# later in my year though but I’m just curious with this.

i dont get the whole coutry thing.the movie is not available there the app not available there etc etc.2 simple things,piracy will be shrinked and companies will get more profit.so what the big problem?

whooo!!!

13 Well Hong Kong and Taiwan just got supported today

Hello there fellow bloggers
Great work playstation mobile looks really good it would be good if in the future all Sony playstation certified Smartphones, tablets etc could have remote play. I believe that would be cool, add playstation 3 games to playstation certified Sony devices, playstation portable games and ps vita games too. I can’t wait to try out ps mobile. Getting a playstation vita for Christmas and a Sony Xperia S smartphone so playstation mobile will be great. Thanks for your time. LongLivePlay Sony Make.Believe

Linux support for development would be great.

Only thing holding me back is I’m a Mac kind of guy.

The same I asked at the US blog

Few questions. Some are answered in a way already though.

-I’m able to download the SDK for free without registration.
-I’m allowed to create, test and share without a fee or any monetizing in mind. (like f2p with transactions for items)
-This sdk covers both PS branded mobile phones and PSVita. (I assume the games we develop would be minis)
-When it comes to publishing, I can have as many apps or games ready but can’t publish them in your store before I have made the one year payment.
-Does the one year publishing rights start when I pay for it. Or does it start in Jan and end in Dec?

I don’t like the idea of 99$ a year because its the same MS does with Windows Phones.
I would prefer it to be 25$ a life time like Android and you get your cut from the sales.

Also, can we do modification for the code and functions that come with SDK or is it prohibited?

Finland getting this this year?

Is the language really C#? I would have thought it being C++. Any possibilities for C++?

Another blog post rubbing something in my face that I can’t have. Why can’t we have the same services as others?

Maybe you should make a separate blog for second rate customers such as myself? like blog.peons.playstation.com?

No PS Mobile, no YouTube app for my Vita etc. etc.

I don’t think I like you anymore

Guys please bring PlayStation Mobile to South Africa. I mean Australia has it so please please consider us. Thanks

I installed Vita 2.00 yesterday, only to find it breaks compatibility with super crate box. after downloading PSM runtime 1.00, I get the following error: (C0-14533-6)

Please don’t tell me I will need to redownload the app, my precious high scores…

Does this mean I cannot continue working on my project unless I pay those 80 bucks? I have been trying to convince my teammates to move to the PSM platform by porting our game (prototype) to PSM.
Can I still run the Windows emulator?

@Ants_Pai I’m in exactly the same boat. Would love a reboot to the Xperia Play too, we were promised so much and after nearly 2 years we got no more than the launch line-up of Playstation titles and I ended up paying more for the phone that the latest IPhone (think it was the 4). It had no analog nub so was pretty uncomfortable to play – how hard would that have been!? And it’s lighting fast processor was quickly made redundant a couple months later by a slew of IPhone competitors, no Jellybean which we were promised because it can’t handle it, the list goes on and on

To clarify things, you do NOT have to pay if you just want to learn about creating games with the PS Mobile SDK. You can still create projects, and they will run on the PSM simulator, without you having to pay a penny.

You will have to pay the extraordinarily cheap license fee if you want to run your code on a PS Vita / Android, though. You need to create a ‘key’ for Vita/Android, and the process for creating keys involves your target device communicating with the SCE server, so you’ll need a publisher license to create keys.

I give my thumbs up to Sony for not requiring a license to run your programs on the PSS Simulator. I can’t wait to see what people can create from these tools!

@RoboAddy Just power your Vita off, then turn it back on again. This should fix the C0-14533-6 error.

Hi it’s Lloyd Clarke.The playstation mobile games will they be trophies support?What Sony mobile fones will this be on and tablets plz let me know and it looks really good news

(cont from comment #40)
The Bullying and constant goading of Richy is going to stop. The cruel and privacy-breaking links to You Tube are going to stop too. And NO ANDREW, Richy’s voice & opinion do count. His views represent what many gamers feel and say & they do come from someone who is a gamer and who knows what he is saying. If I did not know better by the wording of your entry then I would hasard a guess that you know very well about Richy. That’s all.
Just try to be nicer folks, and if you are not then make things right later by making amends to those whom you may have wronged, after all if you are nice and have a modus operandi based on Love, then Karma will come back to reward you threefold. peace

I’m used to not geting tings
1 = no video renting service
2 = no youtube
3 = no PlayStation Mobile
4 = no free realms
5 = no Counter Strike GO
6 = no gta 3
u gone have hard time selling me a ps4 sir !!!
long live SCEE

I have two questions:
1) Will we ever be able to deliberately publish free games / applications so that the user won’t be charged for downloading them from PSN? Or will Sony be the only instance deciding the final price?

2) Any chances PSM publishing will be available in a small country like Czech Republic any time soon? We don’t even have own PS Store, we use UK’s Store instead.

Thank you.

hi

hi MR. Ahmed Are u new on playstation blog? ane welcome from Denmark

When will I be able to use ps mobile on my htc one x which was meant to have the license. Part of the reason I opted for this phone was because of it being ps mobile compatable. Starting to feel like Sony owe me some money towards my phone contract. As a ps + subscriber not happy.

Hoping this comes to New Zealand soon. It’ll also be a great idea for Vita+ further down the line.

My next phone will be a Nexus 4- hopefully you’ll be adding support for the Google Nexus line soon? In fact I think there was a hack to get them running… I’ll have to check that.

On another note, the PSM initiative is a great idea, for the gaming industry in general. I get the feeling it’ll help get people who have always thought about making games to give it a go.

What happened to my comment Number 40. The one that is there now is or was comment 41 continuing on from my original comment. I was sticking up for CoolRichy. Why is it still in moderation. It does not contain expletives so it should be there please Sony

Thanks, rebooting the Vita fixed my error.

I am really excited for the PSM’s future plans of more PSN interaction and Trophies. I have currently purchased a couple titles from PSM and I have found them entertaining. Of course, I have not devoted much time and money to these titles due to my large backlog of trophy supported Vita games (thanks to Vita+). However, once trophy support comes to PSM I have no doubt I will invest heavily. I do have two suggestion: Even though I own an Xperia Play and a Vita, I would love to see the PSM app on Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire. Also, trophy supported versions of top tier mobile games like Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition or Angry Birds series would be phenomenal. Do these concepts even sound remotely possible?

Why can’t i apply for a PSM Publisher License?
I’m in the Netherlands will this ever be possibly, then i’m going to start developing?