Since Sony abandoned its PS Vita, you know you are missing a lot of bills. Games on mobile devices are all the rage, whether on the small screen of an iPhone, or on the larger screen of iPads.
So he is planning to take advantage of the pull of his great PlayStation exclusive titles, and launch their corresponding versions adapted for iOS and iPadOS. Great news, without a doubt.
Sony plans to expand its efforts in developing games for mobile devices. It is recruiting programmers to adapt many PlayStation franchises for future iPhone and iPad playability.
The plan was discovered by a job advertisement
Have been discovered job adverts looking for someone for the role of "Head of Mobile, PlayStation Studios, Sony Interactive Entertainment", in California. The announcement explains that the candidate will "lead all aspects of expanding its game development, from consoles and PCs to mobile and live services", but with a focus on "successfully adapting the most popular PlayStation franchises for mobile" .
The successful candidate will also be responsible for "building and scaling a team of mobile developers" and will serve as "the head of this new business unit within PlayStation Studios." Of course, if they wanted to keep it a secret, the head of hiring employees from Sony a good fight will have fallen to him.
The editorial label of PlayStation Mobile already exists and works, and has spawned some mobile titles, including "Run Sackboy!" and "Uncharted: Fortune Hunter" among others. He has also served as editor of some PC games based on PlayStation games, including "Horizon: Zero Dawn" and "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture."
Sony previously had a more significant presence in mobile games, such as the Xperia Play smartphone and its handheld game consoles. PSP y PS Vita. There is also the ability to play PlayStation games through an iPhone or iPad, using the Remote Play app to stream from a console over the network.
Nintendo is already exploring new business avenues on iOS and iPadOS.
Sony wants to explore a path that Nintendo has already tried with fortune. In 2017, Nintendo began releasing iPhone games based on major franchises such as "Super Mario Run" and "Fire Emblem Heroes", with very good user acceptance.
