Playing backups, it can be prevented if coded the right way. And nobody can prevent an Android device from playing backup roms on Android emulators. Yet the point is Sony should have an attractive subscription plan and affordable game downloads making it more attractive to pay than to pirate, most people not bothering with the hacks against easy streaming access to all games at a good price per month.

The thing is, companies like Sony, Apple, don’t want to precipitate their own disruption faster than they think is necessary. But sometimes auto-disruption can lead to even greater market dominance in the new business opportunities that can come forward.

An Android device should be easier to jailbreak. More people know how to program some thing to do so. If it’s a new OS people have to learn from a scratch.

Nintendo has to make a Nintendo Suite like game store for Android in any ways. It’s not a question about Nintendo “helping” the competition, it’s an opportunity for them to literally make billions of dollars in extra revenues by allowing users to legally pay for their games on Android devices. Look at Angry Birds for example, that game is barely more advanced than the type of games Nintendo did 16 years ago on the SNES. If Nintendo simply provided a legal Nintendo Game Store for Android, they could be selling dozens of SNES games for all Android users, and at $1 per game, or all inclusive in a $5/month subscription plan, Nintendo could be making tons and tons of money.

And I don’t think it would slow their 3DS and Wii-HD sales, as part of the Nintendo Game Store for Android, they would be able to advertise for their own current consoles. That Game Store does not need to include all the newest games released in the last 5-10 years, those would still only work on the actual new Nintendo consoles. This way, for each Android user paying $1 for Yoshi’s Island or Super Mario 2, they get new potential customers for 3DS and Wii-HD as well.

Android is Open Source, but that does not mean users can take it change it and install it on the device. What it means is Sony can take it, customize it, add all their gaming features on top and provide a device that has all the same VOIP, IM, Social Networking and other apps, same multi-tasking perhaps even working in parallel with the games having a way to see Android notifications and other on top of the games or in parallel, instant pause and resume of any game.

I think the main reason Sony would have to not want to use Honeycomb as their PSP2 OS, would be to not let their users play other Android games for free or for cheap instead of spending their time playing the $50 PSP2 games. But in that case, I think Sony should have been ambitious, since as the manufacturer they get 25% or whatever share in Google Marketplace sales, and if they are worried users spend too much time on free Angry Birds and the like, they would then simply have to make the PSP2 games and PlayStation Suite even more convincing so it doesn’t matter how much Android distractions there would be, gamers would still spend lots of money on Sony’s own contents.

The HDMI output could be via USB, I have hope in that possibility!

Free 3G… ufff that would be awesome. But I think it’s asking to much. Maybe some thing like what they done with the CR-48 (100MB free per month)

Nintendo retro games in a SONY game console… I see it impossible. Nintendo is trying to see them in the new DS 3D and they won’t help the competition.