Sony is all set to bring its top IPs to the mobile platform, starting from next year, according to a presentation by the company to its investors this week. Mobile gaming has seen phenomenal growth in countries like India where not everyone can afford to get a console. This could be great news for mobile gamers who have been looking to experience console games on their smartphones. 

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Sony’s PlayStation boss Jim Ryan said during the Investor Relation Day event, “2021 will also see us take steps to bring PlayStation IP to mobile, with the opportunity to dramatically increase audience sizes that this brings.” 

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“In FY21 we will begin to publish some of our iconic PlayStation IP on mobile and we anticipate that in 2021, that will not provide a significant profit flow, but we do anticipate that as we learn from that experience, and as we increase the number of titles that we publish on mobile, the contribution from both PC and mobile will start to become steadily more important as time passes,” he added.

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It’s not clear which games PlayStation will be releasing on the mobile platform, however many speculate it could be from franchises like Uncharted, God of War, The Last of Us, Spiderman amongst many more. It is also unclear what type of games these will be and how they will run as PlayStation could go the Nintendo route and publish standalone games similar to Mario Run, Mario Kart Tour, and Animal Crossing Pocket Camp. 

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It could also be possible that Sony may introduce these games to mobile gamers via cloud streaming similar to Microsoft’s xCloud and Google’s Stadia platform. It would be interesting to see what PlayStation comes up with in the coming year. 

Would you play PlayStation games on your mobile? What do you think about Sony bringing some of its most popular IPs to the mobile platform? Let us know in the comments below. 

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