Sony's looking for engineers with Android exp

[Menace II Society]

Sony's PlayStation division looking for engineers with Android dev experience

It's been just over a month since we broke the news that Sony's working on an Android 3.0-based gaming phone with PlayStation branding, and a new job posting seems to indicate that progress is being made -- the PlayStation division is looking for a senior server engineer in London with "experience in mobile development, specifically Android." The rest of the listing sounds like this person will be involved in running an online game service, which certainly makes sense; Sony would do well to counter Xbox Live on Windows Phone 7 and Apple's Game Center with PSN on their own device. Either that, or this just means nothing -- but you know us, we're eternal optimists.

[Ryan]

Interesting..

[Kilowatt]

Sony done fucked up. they're forums are now under new management, no longer lithium and the new management has no idea what the fuck to do for/with the forum.

[Menace II Society]

Interesting..

Yep, it is!

This sort of confirms that Sony is going to use Android on their Playstation devices. Basically to change up the user interface on the PSP & PS3. Give it a better looking dashboard, better browser, etc.

More people are familiar with Android. So this will give people more of an incentive to go to Playstation. And it will give Sony & Google a better relationship, and it's good business for both to be really good friends. Even though they already are (Sony Ericsson & Google TV).