Sony has confirmed its big PlayStation push into mobile gaming, saying: “please stay tuned.”
In April, a job advertisement for Head of Mobile, PlayStation Studios, SIE, revealed plans for the successful candidate to “focus on successfully adapting PlayStation’s most popular franchises for mobile”.
“You will be responsible for building and scaling a team of mobile leaders and will serve as the Head of this new business unit within PlayStation Studios,” it read (the job is no longer open).
Now, as part of a corporate strategy meeting held today, 26th May, Jim Ryan, president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, confirmed the plans, saying: “We have been thinking about how players enjoy our content and have had some early success with experimenting with mobile games and apps to provide more choice to gamers.