What we’ve learned about Sony PlayStation’s new smartphone games team
by Sean Hollister from The Verge - All Posts on (#6AR4G)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sony wants 20 percent of new games to be on smartphones by 2025, and last August it announced a new PlayStation Studios Mobile Division to help make that happen. But you should know that what Sony's building doesn't look like a new game studio that will produce its own games, nor, say, a way to port Sony's biggest games to phones the way they're getting ported to PC.
17 current and former job postings suggest that PlayStation Studios Mobile is more of a cross-functional management, strategy, licensing, and support team.
They figure what PlayStation intellectual property would best fit a mobile phone, help dish out that licensed IP to internal and external game studios alike, oversee the titles, make sure the final games live up to...