Sony "exploring the mobile market with some wonderful PlayStation franchises" Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Sony "exploring the mobile market with some wonderful PlayStation franchises" Uncharted territory. News by Wesley Yin-Poole Deputy Editorial Director Updated on 26 May 2021 33 comments 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). Watch on YouTube Eurogamer news cast: Do we give Nintendo's bad business practices a free pass? 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. "Mobile is just one of the areas we are exploring to reach millions of gamers beyond our platforms. PlayStation has a huge catalog of diverse first-party IP that can transition to smartphone gaming and complement our AAA games or live service games. We are exploring the mobile market with some wonderful PlayStation franchises so please stay tuned." Uncharted: Fortune Hunter launched on mobile in 2016. Ryan did not detail Sony's mobile push, but we can speculate. PlayStation's first-party IP includes Naughty Dog's Uncharted and The Last of Us series, Polyphony's Gran Turismo, Sony Santa Monica's God of War, and Insomniac's Ratchet & Clank. Perhaps we'll see mobile iterations of these games. Sony already has a mobile publishing label, called PlayStation Mobile, Inc., which has published the likes of the PlayStation app, the PS Remote Play app, endless-runner Run Sackboy! Run!, top-down puzzle game Uncharted: Fortune Hunter, AR app God of War Mimir's Vision, and a handful of PlayStation 4 PlayLink titles, such as Supermassive's Hidden Agenda, and Flavourworks' Erica. Interestingly, Sony also uses PlayStation Mobile, Inc. to publish PlayStation games on PC, such as Horizon, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, and the recently-released Days Gone. Mobile gaming is big business, of course. Pokémon Go, Candy Crush, PUBG, Genshin Impact and Roblox all pull in hundreds of millions of pounds a month on mobile devices. Sony, clearly, fancies a piece of that lucrative pie. Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More News Google announces cloud gaming Chromebooks less than a fortnight after Stadia shutdown GeForce Now preinstalled. 3 Atari will hold RollerCoaster Tycoon rights for another decade Ups and downs. 7 Lady Dimitrescu will be a tad smaller in Resident Evil Village's Mercenaries DLC Level the playing field. 1 Overwatch 2 suffers another DDoS attack and character roster bugs Mei Mei. 13 Latest Articles Digital Foundry Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090: a new level in graphics performance The Digital Foundry video review - and how the new GPU champion delivers for 4K 120fps gaming. Google announces cloud gaming Chromebooks less than a fortnight after Stadia shutdown GeForce Now preinstalled. 3 Feature Evercore Heroes wants to wind people up the right way "There's less rage at them, because they didn't end your fun." Genshin Impact Path of Gleaming Jade dates, login event rewards Including other anniversary rewards and how to claim them. Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store