A fresh start at Sony (PlayStation). change of approach?

game news A fresh start at Sony (PlayStation). change of approach?

The Head of PlayStation Mobile Division just left his post. It won’t be Nicola Sebastiani, that’s his name only stayed two years at Sony.

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ancien commercial manager, then content director at Apple Arcadehad Nicola Sebastiani joins Sony in June 2021. He was given the role Director of Mobile Division at PlayStation Studios. For two years he has We’re shaping the future of PlayStation on mobile

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Unlike its competitors who are acquiring leading publishers in the wireless market (Zynga for Take-Two, possibly King for Microsoft, etc.), Sony has decided to release its mobile games. The Japanese company is starting almost from scratch (Sony’s experiments in mobile already begin with trials on the hardware side, like the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, aka “PlayStation Phone”). Becoming a leader in such a crowded market takes time and skill. It was very helpful to have an expert like Sebastiani. It was he who did it enabled PlayStation to purchase its first mobile studio, Savage Game Studioslast summer (although Sony isn’t buying any publishers in the industry, mobile-focused studios are a prime target when looking for expertise).

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Although Board member of the Swedish publishing house Raw Fury since April 2022 (and he still is), it is not yet known if Sebastiani will move to another company or is “satisfied” with this position. We found out about it on the PlayStation Mobile site Chris Davis (former Vice President of Business Development at Kabam) and Olivier Courtemanche (Ex-product director at Meta and Zynga) take the place of Sebastiani and become both Co-Head of Mobile at PlayStation

. As for its future, Sony should continue to produce their own content for mobile devices, several of his studios are already in the works. We wait for first PlayStation Studios Mobile release for this fiscal year. Jim Ryan had indeed announced Sony’s mobile strategy. The company remains cautious, as you can see from these 2023 and 2025 forecasts. Mobile should continue to be a small but growing part of the games catalogue.

Savage Game Studios is currently developing a “new unannounced AAA mobile service action game” for PlayStation Studios Mobile.