Sony plans to Adapt its most popular Franchises as Smartphone games

A job advertisement appeared last weekend suggesting that Sony Interactive Entertainment plans to move more of its games to mobile platforms.

IC: playstationblast.

Long gone are those days when at Sony they were willing to make games just for their PlayStation platform. Expansion into the PC game market has already taken off, and as it stands, the next stop is mobile platforms.

A few days ago, a job vacancy for Sony interactive entertainment's mobile game branch manager came up online. The job description states that the employee in question will have the job of adapting playstation's most popular mobile franchises. No examples are cited, but it is well known that the most famous Playstation franchises are God of War, Uncharted, Gran Turismo and others.

Now, this isn't the first time Sony has worked to adapt its franchises to the mobile market. Six years ago they made a game of Run Sackboy! Rune, run! which they uploaded a piece of LittleBigPlanet outside of the PlayStation environment.

Ten years ago, Sony also launched the Sony Xperia Play mobile device, based on the Android platform, for which the portals are several older games from the era of the first PlayStation console. However, this phone was not particularly successful.

The situation has changed in the last decade, however, and even Nintendo has since begun adapting its franchises for the mobile market. The result is that some of the most popular mobile games of today are based precisely on franchises that have previously gained their fame on consoles.