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Sony Bringing PlayStation Video Game Franchises to Mobile by March 2022

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Sony has committed to bringing its PlayStation brands and IP to third-party mobile devices, potentially as soon as this year (via VideoGamesChronicle).

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Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO Jim Ryan today explained during an investor relations session that the company plans to launch its major franchises on non-console platforms such as mobile, encouraged by its "very successful" first steps into the PC gaming market.

Ryan presented research suggesting mobile gaming generated $121 billion worldwide in 2020, compared to $62 billion brought in by the console market and $42 billion generated by the PC gaming market, demonstrating the case for the company to move into mobile gaming.
We are beginning our journey to take PlayStation first-party IP off console. We started last year by publishing two of our games on PC, Horizon Zero Dawn and Predator, and both were profitable and really had a very successful publishing debut... In FY21 we will begin to publish some of our iconic PlayStation IP on mobile.
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PlayStation intends to publish an increasingly large number of titles on mobile, hoping that it will "become steadily more important as time passes" relative to console gaming.

Sony previously claimed that its move into mobile gaming would occur with at least five titles by March 2018, but it never came to fruition.

According to VideoGamesChronicle, PlayStation opened a new business unit to adapt its "most popular franchises" for mobile earlier this year and was hiring for developers to achieve a mobile product roadmap within a three to five-year time frame.
PlayStation has a huge catalog of diverse first-party IP that can transition to smartphone gaming and complement our AAA games or live service games. We are exploring the mobile market with some wonderful PlayStation franchises so please stay tuned.
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Sony Interactive Entertainment owns a large number of popular video game franchises, including "God of War," "Gran Turismo," "Killzone," "The Last of Us," "LittleBigPlanet," "Ratchet & Clank," "Until Dawn," "Uncharted," and more. The company's intention to move into mobile gaming will presumably see some of these titles arrive on iOS and iPadOS. Sony's PlayStation 5 DualSense controller also now works with iOS and iPadOS, which may aid the gaming experience with Sony's new mobile games.

Six years ago, rival company Nintendo announced its foray into mobile gaming on iOS and other platforms. Although the company has seen some success in the business move, it has also experienced some misfires, and there have since been indications that Nintendo is "retreating" from its mobile gaming plans.

The arrival of Sony's "iconic IP" on mobile platforms will occur by the end of the financial year in March 2022.

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I hope this doesn't mean Sony is going to start focusing more on online multi-player games to get the most profits. I have stuck with Playstation because they have stuck to making great single player games without the pay to win bs that is so prevalent on mobile and multi-player games. Not happy about Rockstar milking GTA V for eight years without any expansion packs because they only focus on online now.
 
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Wow that brings me a lot of hype. Would love to see Sony franchises on more platforms.
 
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Anyway, I couldn't give a monkeys about mobile gaming (except strategy games - I wish proper PC strategy games were all on iPad), but if the next Naughty Dog games come to PC I will never need to buy a PS5.
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They do say this is the beginning for taking them off console. I don’t really know what to think of this, is the long term a future without consoles? Because I myself I haven’t bought a PS5, really not feeling the need (no MGS for that one), etc.

Looks like a future where Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo would only focus on specific games and peripherals and let the hardware guys AMD/NVidia/Intel/Apple fight it out at the “console” level.

Strategy games on iPad, is it because of the touch/pencil interface? If you have any suggestion of what to try I’m ears, I don’t play mobile at all but as an old school strategy games fan (CnC, Starcraft, etc) I’m inclined to see what’s the experience.
 
Everybody waiting for the opportune moment of Epic getting some sort of win in the lawsuit and being able to circumvent that 30% Apple Tax. As soon as the 30% or even the anti-steering rules get struck down, we'll see Xcloud, Playstation, and all sorts innovations returning to iPhone.
Naturally, no developer wants to pay 30% to Apple, that's why no developer spoke from Apple's side in their defense.
 
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I wonder if Apple will charge Sony 30% on every purchase made? Or will they strike a special deal. Seems a lot of the big multinationals get a special deal when it comes to the Apple store costs :rolleyes:o_O

Its one rule for them, and another for the rest of us 🤯
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@erniefairchild1 if you disagree, I'd love to hear how you think it'll play out.

Seems to me that 30% is blatantly too much. Naturally Sony will cut a nice deal with Apple that keeps them both happy and is actually a practical amount.

What do you think? Do you think Sony will pay 30% on every purchase?
 
Seems that XBox Game Pass opened up some eyes at Sony. When Major League Baseball forced Sony to offer their 1st party IP, MLB the Show, on Game Pass on release day I knew then it would only be a matter of time before Sony got the message.

At least they're coming to the realization that their dominance in the console market won't be enough to sustain growth. The diversification is necessary.
 
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I wonder if they will have something to show at WWDC or if they will wait till Apples Fall event.

I am cautiously optimistic, but based on what we see from Nintendo I am not getting my hopes up.
 
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I wonder if they will have something to show at WWDC or if they will wait till Apples Fall event.

I am cautiously optimistic, but based on what we see from Nintendo I am not getting my hopes up.
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Sony and Nintendo wouldn't be utilizing the same philosophy. Nintendo was never porting their classic IP to mobile. Sony is talking about doing exactly that: porting their classic IP to PC and mobile. They aren't going to offer some watered down generic games. They're offering the real deal. I'm pretty sure they are going to choose titles that make sense on mobile.
 
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I can't help but to compare mobile games to trash. Yes, they have come a long way since Snake, and later Angry Birds, but they are fundamentally either graphically underwhelming or loaded with in-app purchases.

I would prefer that Sony work to improve its PS Now/PS Plus service to make it compete better with Xbox's offerings, and additionally make both streaming services available on Apple TV.
 
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Would be nice to see a partnership between Apple, Sony &/or Nintendo to bring some more titles built natively for the Apple ecosystem, especially now that Apple has adopted support for the latest controllers
 
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Sony and Nintendo wouldn't be utilizing the same philosophy. Nintendo was never porting their classic IP to mobile. Sony is talking about doing exactly that: porting their classic IP to PC and mobile. They aren't going to offer some watered down generic games. They're offering the real deal. I'm pretty sure they are going to choose titles that make sense on mobile.
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We hope. As far as anyone is willing to admit the only mobile games that appear to make money are F2P, so I would be curious to see what Sony would do to adapt say Uncharted 4 to mobile, and if they will charge for the game or try to make it f2p somehow.
 
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