PlayStation found its mobile director, and it s Mr. Apple Arcade

Last April, a job offer published by Sony Interactive Entertainment revealed the cravings of PlayStation to make its hole in the world of mobile game. We discover it only today thanks to the sharpened eye of Nightengale, but this coveted job found takers in July.

And the happy elected is named Nicola Sebastiani, whose LinkedIn profile indicates that he was in charge of the content for the Apple Arcade subscription since January 2018 until his departure in July 2021. In other words, the gentleman, who was also Chief of Commercial Management of the App Store Games between December 2013 and January 2018, must have a rather full address book. Before Apple, Nicola Sebastiani had passed not far from 3 years at Ubisoft to accompany the beginnings of his mobile team.

Nicola Sebastiani responded to a job offer that proposed to the candidates to Develop the Mobile Game Strategy for PlayStation Studios and dirirating all aspects of the expansion of our development of consoles and PC games to mobiles and Live Services, successfully adapting the most popular PlayStation franchises for mobiles.

In May, during the annual strategic presentation of Sony, the Group s management had directly confirmed its intention to reach a much broader audience by declining PlayStation Mobile licenses, in addition to PlayStation Productions investments (the movie Uncharted, the TV series The Last of US) and PlayStation Studios game portages on PC.

The mobile is only one of the areas we explore to reach millions of players beyond our platforms. PlayStation has a huge catalog of various intellectual properties that can be adapted in games on smartphone and complement our games AAA and our services games. We are exploring the mobile market with wonderful PlayStation franchises, so stay at listening, said Jim Ryan during this presentation.

For the time being, a single project materialized. It is Wipeout Rush, a race game based on a card collection system that is neither developed nor published by Sony and whose advertised ad not even been relayed on the Playstation blog or other PlayStation channels. In the image of the caution of which it shows with its very casual PC game portages, the brand does not seem yet ready to display its mobile strategy.

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