Finally, some official details related to the upcoming PlayStation app have been revealed. According to reports, the app will be available for free for users on iOS and Android. Although there’s no information about the Windows 8 version of the app, Sony has confirmed that the app will allow users to purchase titles and download them immediately on the PlayStation 4.
Recently discussing about the new app, Sony Worldwide Studios Boss Shuhei Yoshida revealed a number of details about the app in an interview with the European PlayStation blog.
The new app will allow users to take the PlayStation experience along with them while on the move. Said Yoshida, “You can stay in touch with, friends, compare trophies, view friends’ activity (including recorded or live-streamed gameplay on PS4) and access all the latest PlayStation Blog news.”
“There are a variety of things you can do with it. You can connect to your PlayStation profile, and send messages – even voice messages – to friends between your smartphone and PS4,” he added.
“A friend on PS4 can also send out an invitation for a multiplayer game, which you can then check on the App, and you can also purchase PS4 games from PlayStation Store. Your game will immediately start downloading while you’re away.”
The real advantage of the new app is the fact that it can be integrated with a host of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Nico Nico, while offering access to game play broadcasts on Ustream.
Moreover, the app will also turn an Android or iOS-based smartphone or tablet into an additional gaming controller, serving as a potential second screen that will support gameplay features for enabled titles. The blog described a demonstration led by Yoshida, in which he drew a picture on his smartphone, "and then pushed it into the PS4 game on his TV, allowing the game’s bot characters to play with the item he’d created.”
The app was also recently in the news after Sony UK’s MD and VP Fergal Gara, speaking at the Eurogamer Expo, stated that Sony will continue its support for the Vita handheld, while also hinting that the next killer app could be developed for the system.
Sony’s PlayStation 4 is currently scheduled to release on Nov. 15 in North America and Nov. 29, 2013 in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
