Sony’s newly-announced PlayStation Suite, which will enable the company to offer PlayStation-branded games to mobile devices based on Android, could be made available to other platforms in the future including Apple’s iOS, according to a senior Sony executive.  Speaking at a press event following last week’s announcement of the PlayStation Suite, Sony Computer Entertainment’s president and group CEO Kaz Hirai said the company is not striking exclusive relationships for spreading Playstation content: “We have a completely open stance. With carriers and with handset makers.”  According to gaming site andriasang, Hirai also noted that: “there are a variety of OSes, but we’re focusing first on Android. There’s also Windows, iOS and so forth, but we don’t have the resources to make it compatible with everything from the start.”  The focus is initially smartphones, he said, with tablets to follow next and maybe TV in the future: “we’re not ruling out PSS [PlayStation Suite] even on products like Sony Internet TV powered by Google (Google TV) if adoption rate increases, or if it will help push adoption greatly,” he said.

Hirai also mentioned a review procedure for PlayStation Suite software. Put together with the licence programme for hardware called PlayStation Certified, the two procedures are intended to reassure users with quality control of hardware and software. Also of interest to developers, those who submit software will have to pay royalties to Sony under a revenue-sharing model that would also involve mobile operators, he said.

However, there are reasons why PlayStation Suite might not make it to Apple’s iOS. Tensions rose between the companies this week when Apple rejected an iPhone app from Sony because its in-app purchasing capability which would have bypassed Apple.  Bboth companies also have their own certification processes, a point made by Touch Arcade, an iPhone gaming site:….”games go through PSS [PlayStation Suite] will be certified by Sony and funneled through its own closed system, presumably similar to iTunes in theory…I can’t see Apple being fans of having a system on top of a system,” it says. In addition, Sony is set to sell PSS content though its own app store, which goes against Apple’s control of the distribution process for iOS.