The Xperia Play has yet to launch in the US, but it's already available in the UK, Canada, Ireland and Spain. Xperia PLAY will be in stores in the US market with Verizon Wireless "this spring." Or at least, Verizon wants to hack into it and load up Verizon bloat and limitations first before unleashing the phone to anxious subscribers.

The Xperia Play packed with Google's Android 3.0 "Gingerbread" OS, over sixty games available in the first week alone, and a slide-out gaming pad, gamers will surely forget about those other fruity and kiddy mobile platforms... at least until the NGP arrives this holiday season.

The phone arrives with a few exclusive titles under its belt including N.O.V.A. 2, Dungeon Defenders Second Wave, Backstab and Asphalt 6. Other optimized games include Assassin's Creed Altair's Chronicles HD, Need for Speed, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Gun Bros, Galaxy on Fire 2, Zenonia 2 and more (see list below). All of these will be downloadable through the Xperia PLAY launcher application, and not via the Android Market.

Of course, the big hype around this PlayStation-sanctioned phone is the ability to actually play PlayStation One games. Crash Bandicoot will come pre-installed within the PlayStation Pocket app, with five additional games available to purchase and download including Cool Boarders 2, Destruction Derby, Jumping Jack Flash, MediEvil and Syphon Filter.

However, sales of PSOne titles being offered for the phone haven't exactly been brisk, evidently. All of the five PlayStation games available for the Xperia Play have sold under 1,000 downloads each since the device launched in early April. Current figures based on the Android Marketplace, here are the sales totals:

Cool Boarders 2: 100-500
Destruction Derby: 500-1,000
Jumping Flash: 50-100
MediEvil: 100-500
Syphon Filter: 100-500

Dominic Neil-Dwyer, Head of Market Development at Sony Ericsson, told PlayStation LifeStyle that it's not really a concern:

I think there's also an awareness thing for people that are getting their hands on the device and where they are choosing to purchase games, There's only a few, at the minute, PlayStation One titles there, and there's more coming on a regular basis, and there's the whole PlayStation as a content provider exclusive to the device, the story about that, that will emerge and people will see.

So, there's no concerns, it's a revolutionary device, it's shaking up the market, we're very pleased with it. In terms of getting the PlayStation Certified program out, generally, we're very happy. I think we'll make a full assessment of if it has achieved our expectations fully, further down the line, so we're very happy.

As for what the future has in store, he says to look to E3, as more games and support for the device are sure to be announced there. "There'll be more exclusives to come," Neil-Dwyer promised. "We'll be making some pretty big announcements at E3". More games will be added on a regular basis and will likely mirror what's already available for the PSP and PSP Go.