Sony steps back into the mobile gaming ring and you should be excited

For the (mobile) players

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Sonyis making a comeback to mobile gaming and has bought an entire studio to reach a “new audience”.

Now that thePSPandPS Vitahave been (tragically) left by the wayside, Sony is looking at mobile for games on the go. It’s also playing catch-up withMicrosoft, which is better late than never. Microsoft lets gamers access and play their library as part ofXbox Game PassandXbox Cloud Gamingso you can play on your tablet or smartphone, as well as PC orXbox Series X.

PlayStation Studios Mobile Division is Sony’snewly announcedmobile gamingarm. And its first member is Savage Game Studios. Don’t worry; PlayStation isn’t shifting gears to focus solely on mobile games. Console gaming will still be Sony’s forte. The company is simply expanding.

Mobile gaming going live

Head of PlayStation Studios, Hermen Hulst, says these new efforts will be “additive [by] providing more ways for more people to engage with [Sony’s] content.” It’s a similar mindset to thePS5games that made their way to PC, likeMarvel’s Spider-Man.Such moves, by the way, seem to have paid off.God of War, for example, managed tosell over two million copieswhen it made the jump to desktop.

But unlike those ports, Sony plans to create brand new games for mobile with some titles being based on established PlayStation franchises. It’s confirmed that developers under the Mobile Division umbrella “will operate independently” from the console division, with Sony being fairly hands-off.

Savage Game Studios is a relatively new developer that was founded by a group of game industry veterans. Some of the team includes former staff from Rockstar, Rovio, and even the Sony-owned Insomniac Games.

It’s first order of business is working on an a triple-A live service mobile action game, but that’s the only tidbit Sony has shared for now.

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Cesar Cadenas has been writing about the tech industry for several years now specializing in consumer electronics, entertainment devices, Windows, and the gaming industry. But he’s also passionate about smartphones, GPUs, and cybersecurity.

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