PlayStation launches smartphone messaging app

Check your Friends List to see who’s online and what they’re playing. “I’d honestly settle for just a simple messaging app”, I sighed to myself.

Maybe. Sony’s launched a companion companion PlayStation app, available now on iOS and Android, that lets you talk to anyone on your PSN friends list. It’s a simple PSN messaging app, and it’s optimized for the iPhone 6S Plus. The notoriously hard messaging contained within Sony’s PlayStation app is obsolete as of right now. In this case, it’s nearly certainly for the best. There’s also WhatsApp, which Facebook bought for $19 billion, and other messaging apps like Line, WeChat, and KakaoTalk. It has a new, fashionably gradient-free icon, and it is still not optimized for the iPhone 6S Plus.

The news will come as relief for PlayStation owners who have grown exhausted of the existing app’s sluggish nature, which will continue to serve as the hub for any kind of news, buying the latest games, and so forth. However, like Facebook and its messenger app, you’ll be able to jump between your PS apps through tabs. It also shows your favorite groups-teams that you love to hang out or play with.

Send text or voice messages as well as photos and stickers to your friends or a group with up to 100 players. So if you’re trying to organize a gaming session, you could do that with the app even when you’re out and about.