Sony continues its expansion strategy beyond PS4 and PS5, and now mobile games are in its sights. Over the past few hours, a Japanese firm announced the acquisition of Savage Game Studiosa studio from Helsinki and Berlin that will join PlayStation Studios.
There are few details about the agreement. At the moment, the deal numbers have not been made public, although Herman Halst, head of PlayStation Studios, revealed that the studio will be part of the company’s new mobile games division. It will be called PlayStation Studios Mobile Division and will not depend on the development direction for consoles.
Savage Game Studios is not one of the biggest names in the industry. The company was founded in 2020 and is working on a game-as-a-service game. It has not yet been mentioned if he will continue to work on said project or if he will have to reorganize his priorities in order to obey Sony’s orders.
Despite being a fairly new company, PlayStation Studios has clearly garnered enough attention to open up a portfolio and absorb it. “We share his relentless drive to innovate, combined with his ongoing drive to expand our audience and bring PlayStation to more people than ever before,” Hulst said.
Mikhail Cutkoff, co-founder and CEO of Savage Game Studios, also touched on the Sony acquisition. He mentioned that everyone in the company has a lot of experience in big studios, and who wanted to stay “small and nimble” to make their own decisions. However, the point of view changed when an offer was received from the Japanese.
“We made this deal because we believe that PlayStation Studios management respects our vision of how we can best work and succeed, and because they are also not afraid to take risks. All of this, plus the potential use of PlayStation’s incredible catalog of intellectual property and the fact that we stand to benefit from the kind of support that only they can provide,” he added.
PlayStation is eyeing mobile gaming
That Sony intends to expand its video game business beyond consoles is nothing new. Lately, we’ve seen an increasingly strong push to bring the PlayStation brand to other platforms. Exclusive titles such as the days are gone D Zero dawn horizon They’ve already made the leap to PC. And let’s not forget that in mid-2021, she acquired Nixxes Software, a company dedicated to creating ports for computers and added it to PlayStation Studios.
As for Savage Game Studios, its arrival could be critical for PlayStation to become stronger in the mobile gaming sector. section mobile proved to be very profitable in recent yearsattracting much attention from industry giants.
The most high-profile case was with Zynga, which was acquired by Take-Two Entertainment this year for more than $12,000 million. Though we can’t forget King, the creator of the studio candy crush, which in 2016 passed into the hands of Activision Blizzard for almost $ 6,000 million and can now go under the wing of Microsoft. Of course, while the deal to acquire the parent company for $68.7 billion has been completed.
But let’s not expect Sony to divert resources from PS5 game development to focus on its new mobile gaming strategy. The Asians have made it clear that their expansion plans they don’t affect your main focus on consoles.
“As we assured you earlier when we talked about our plans to bring some games to PC, our efforts beyond consoles in no way detract from our commitment to the PlayStation community, nor our passion to continue creating incredible story-driven single-player experiences,” – said Hermann Halst.
Source: Hiper Textual
